Bertram, or The Castle of St Aldobrand

Bertram, or The Castle of St Aldobrand (1816), a tragedy in blank verse by Charles Robert Maturin, first staged at Drury Lane with Edmund Kean in the title-role. Bertram is shipwrecked near the castle of Lord Aldobrand, a noble who had forced him into exile and who has married his beloved Imogine. Bertram seduces Imogine and kills Aldobrand; then, appalled by what he has done, he kills himself. To the disgust of Coleridge, Bertram was chosen over his own Zapolya.