Osmond/Grimbald

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According to Curtis Price, in Dryden's opera Osmond/Grimbald represents the Earl of Shaftesbury. The opera was probably an allegory of the Exclusion crisis, a major political dispute over who would succeed Charles II. Dryden was a convinced Tory.

When

First attested
1684 CE
Attested period
1684 – 1685
Historical notes
Opera by John Dryden and Henry Purcell.

Relationships

co occurs with
Philidel, Emmeline, King Arthur

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Sources

wikipedia (1)

Source passages

“Oswald is the Duke of Monmouth and Osmond/Grimbald is the Earl of Shaftesbury.”

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