Fan Casting Zara in Sorting Characters by Name
Role added by connieblackwood on May 14, 2023
Character Description
Used by William Congreve for a character in his tragedy The Mourning Bride (1697), where it belongs to a captive North African queen. Congreve may have based it on the Arabic name Zahra. In 1736 the English writer Aaron Hill used it to translate Zaïre for his popular adaptation of Voltaire's French play Zaïre (1732). Could also be a diminutive of Zaharina.
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