ANICE-AL-JALICE HERO INE ( vezier of Bassora) characteristics

Abstract

  Anice-Aljalice, like Andromeda, Vasavadutta, Rodogune, and  Aslaug, is the heroine of the play. She is a Persian slave-girl. She has been purchased by Alfazzal from the slave-market. Alfazzal is the chief Vizier of Mohamad Bin Suleyman of Zayni, the cousin of Haroun al Rasheed the Caliph of Baghdad. In the words of A.K. Sinha, ―the plot of The Vizier of Bassora is based on several stories found in  The Book of the Thousand and One Night by Sir Richard Burton and fused in the crucible of the dramatist‘s imagination.‖^[1] K.R.S. Iyengar says that The Viziers of Bassora is pure romance: ―The slve-girl, Anice-al-Jalice, and Nureddene, the Vizier‘s son, fall in love, and despite the machinations for the bad Vizier, Almuene, manage to find favour in the eyes of Haroun al Rasheed, the great and benevolent King of Baghdas, and are crowned King and

[1] A.K. Sinha, The Dramatic Art of Sri Aurobindo (New Delhi : S. Chand, 1979), p. 29.