Abdelazer; or, The Moor's Revenge plunges into a Spanish court where lust, ambition, and betrayal turn private desire into public ruin. Aphra Behn's fierce Restoration tragedy follows the Moor Abdelazer, a captive risen to power, as he manipulates the jealous Queen Isabella, corrupt nobles, and shifting alliances until the kingdom collapses into accusation, murder, and civil conflict. From its opening song of wounded love and the first charged confrontation between Abdelazer and the Queen, the play establishes a world poisoned by sexual obsession, humiliation, and revenge. As the King's death throws succession into chaos, loyalties fracture and authority is weaponized by religion, reputation, and state power. Abdelazer's banishment only hardens his resolve, while Florella, Leonora, Philip, and Alonzo struggle against the court's moral rot and mounting violence. Behn intensifies the older source material into a sharper, more theatrically powerful tragedy, and the play's spirited prologue, bold energy, and dramatic force helped secure a successful stage life, later revivals, and influence on revenge tragedy. A lively comic subplot, featuring Wilding, Lady Galliard, and their satirical games of courtship and inheritance, adds wit and social bite to the larger tragic design. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.