Beauty in Distress

{{Short description|1698 play}}

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| name =Beauty in Distress

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| writer = Peter Anthony Motteux

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| date of premiere = April 1698

| original language = English

| place = Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre

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| genre = Tragedy

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Beauty in Distress is a 1698 tragedy by the English writer Peter Anthony Motteux.Watson p.767Lowerre p.198

The original Lincoln's Inn Fields cast included Thomas Betterton as Don Vincentio, John Verbruggen as Ricardo, Edward Kynaston as Duke Ferdinand, John Hodgson as Fabiano, Elizabeth Barry as Laura, Anne Bracegirdle as Placentia and Henrietta Moore as Morella.