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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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"Honest" Iago weaves a web of deceit and treachery that ensnares Othello, sending the proud general down a dark path. It can end no other way than in tragedy most profound.
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In the face of a brutal feud, love grows. Romeo and Juliet, those famous star-crossed lovers, experience passion, hope, and, ultimately, tragedy. Reading their story our own hearts soar and break too.
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Race, religion, love, and the law combine in this explosive play filled with lies and deceit. Antonio is the titular merchant of Venice who offers to help his friend Bassanio woo Portia, the woman he ...
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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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_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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THE GOD POSEIDON. THE GODDESS PALLAS ATHENA. HECUBA, _Queen of Troy, wife of Priam, mother of Hector and Paris_. CASSANDRA, _daughter of Hecuba, a prophetess_. ANDROMACHE, _wife of Hector, Prince of T ...
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"Introite nam et heic Dii sunt!"--APUD GELLIUM. DRAMATIS PERSONAE. SALADIN, the Sultan. SITTAH, his Sister. NATHAN, a rich Jew. RECHA, his adopted Daughter. DAYA, a Christian Woman dwelling with the J ...
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Richard III, the malicious, hunchbacked younger brother of the king, proclaims himself a villain in one of literature’s most unconventional opening scenes and one of Shakespeare’s darkest history ...
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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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