Zorinski

About the show

Zorinski, also known as Casimir, King of Poland, is a 1795 historical tragedy in three acts by the British playwright Thomas Morton. It enjoyed considerable success. The play's plot was "founded on the adventures of Stanislaus." Shortly after the play's 1795 premiere, an anonymous pamphlet titled Mr. Morton's "Zorinski" and Brooke's "Gustavus Vasa" Compared alleged that Morton's play was essentially plagiarized from Henry Brooke's 1738 Gustavus Vasa — Morton's characters Rodomosko, Rosolia, and Zorinski were respectively Brooke's Cristiern, Cristina, and Gustavus; Morton's salt-mines were Brooke's copper-mines, and so on.