axala

Updated: May 12, 2025

All the characters of a play should be subordinate to the leading one, and their business in the drama subservient to promote his fate; but this performance is not the tragedy of Bajazet, or Tamerlane only; but likewise the tragedies of Moneses and Arpasia, Axala and Selima.

Theophilus Cibber - The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753): Volume III