Lothario that her affair is to be revealed. Lothario and Camilla flee that night, and the maid flees the next day. Anselmo searches for them in vain before learning from a stranger of his wife's affair. He starts to write the story but dies of grief before he can finish. Lothario is a character in Goethe's novel Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship (1795-96) and also in the play "The Fair Penitent" (1703), by Nicholas Rowe, based on the earlier 17th-century play, "The Fatal Dowry" (which itself drew on Cervantes). In Rowe's play, Lothario is a libertine who seduces and betrays Calista; and its
Restoration literature pathetic tragedy. Elizabeth Howe has argued that the most important explanation for the shift in taste was the emergence of tragic actresses whose popularity made it unavoidable for dramatists to create major roles for them. With the conjunction of the playwright "master of pathos" Thomas Otway and the great tragedienne Elizabeth Barry in "The Orphan", the focus shifted from hero to heroine. Prominent she-tragedies include John Banks's "Virtue Betrayed, or, Anna Bullen" (1682) (about the execution of Anne Boleyn), Thomas Southerne's "The Fatal Marriage" (1694), and Nicholas Rowe's "The Fair Penitent" (1703) and "Lady Jane Grey", 1715. While she-tragedies were