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Come, come, Flipotte, and let me get away. You hurry so, I hardly can attend you. Then don't, my daughter-in law. Stay where you are. I can dispense with your polite attentions. We're only paying what ...
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THESEUS, son of Aegeus and King of Athens. PHAEDRA, wife of Theseus and Daughter of Minos and Pasiphae. HIPPOLYTUS, son of Theseus and Antiope, Queen of the Amazons. ARICIA, Princess of the Blood Roya ...
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Passions and politics collide in this extravagant play, which shifts between exotic Egypt and the Roman Empire. Mark Antony, a renowned soldier and one of the rulers of the Roman Empire, has left Rome ...
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Newly crowned King Henry decides to celebrate his inauguration by invading France after the French Dauphin insults him with a dirty joke. The invasion is not solely about the insult, though: Henry is ...
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A corrupt king slowly loses his grip on the throne in this first installment of the Henriad, Shakespeare’s group of four history plays. Richard II is a regal, well-spoken king, but he wastefully squ ...
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As Sophocles’s ca. 442 B.C. tragedy Antigone opens, a great conflict has just come to a bloody end in Thebes. Two princely brothers — Polynices and Eteocles, the leaders of the two opposing forces ...
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Disaster has stricken the kingdom of Thebes—citizens everywhere are sick and dying of the plague. Oedipus, the Theban king, sends his brother-in-law, Creon, to seek advice from the Oracle at Delphi. ...
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SCENE. Colonus. OEDIPUS. ANTIGONE. To hear the will of strangers and to obey. Thick-fluttering song-birds make sweet melody. Here then repose thee on this unhewn stone. Thou hast travelled far to-day ...
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ORESTES, _son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra_. ELECTRA, _sister of Orestes_. CHORUS _of Argive Women_. CHRYSOTHEMIS, _sister of Orestes and Electra_. CLYTEMNESTRA. AEGISTHUS. PYLADES _appears with_ ORE ...
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_An_ Attendant. HYLLUS, _son of Heracles and Deanira_. CHORUS _of Trachinian Maidens_. _A_ Messenger. LICHAS, _the Herald_. _A_ Nurse. _An_ Old Man. HERACLES. IOLE, _who does not speak_. SCENE. Before ...
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Ajax, a proud war hero, plots revenge when a coveted honor is bestowed on another soldier in Sophocles’s ca. 440 B.C. drama Ajax. As the play begins, the great warrior Odysseus has been given Achill ...
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ODYSSEUS. NEOPTOLEMUS. CHORUS _of Mariners_. PHILOCTETES. Messenger, _disguised as a Merchantman_. HERACLES, _appearing from the sky_. SCENE. A desert shore of the Island of Lemnos. ODYSSEUS. NEOPTOLE ...
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A civil rebellion brews, a king struggles to maintain power, and a young price slums in the taverns in one of Shakespeare’s greatest history plays. As Henry IV, Part 1 opens, the newly crowned King ...
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The play begins with the king’s crushing defeat of the rebel forces, picking up where Henry IV, Part II left off. The king’s army has successfully won the battle, but the rebels are not fully defe ...
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DON CARLOS. DRAMATIS PERSONAE. PHILIP THE SECOND, King of Spain. DON CARLOS, Prince, Son of Philip. ALEXANDER FARNESE, Prince of Parma. MARQUIS DE POSA. DUKE OF ALVA. Grandees of Spain: DOMINGO, Confe ...
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Full of treachery and betrayal, this play tells the story of a proud war hero who struggles to turn his military triumphs into political success. Coriolanus, a Roman soldier, has defeated the Volscian ...
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An October night on the Syrian border of Egypt towards the end of the XXXIII Dynasty, in the year 706 by Roman computation, afterwards reckoned by Christian computation as 48 B.C. A great radiance of ...
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The hilly country in the middle of the north edge of Sussex, looking very pleasant on a fine evening at the end of September, is seen through the windows of a room which has been built so as to resemb ...
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