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Blood on the stage, 480 B.C. to 1600 A.D: milestone plays of murder, mystery, and mayhem: an annotated repertoire
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Rowman & Littlefield
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[2014]
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English
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From the Book
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Prometheus Bound (480 B.C.) by Aeschylus
The Danaid Tetralogy (463 B.C.) by Aeschylus
Oresteia (458 B.C.) by Aeschylus
Women ofTrachis aka The Trachiniae (c. 450 B.C.) by Sophocles
Ajax (c. 444 B.C.) by Sophocles
Antigone (c. 442 B.C.) by Sophocles
Medea (431 B.C.) by Euripides
Oedipus the King (c. 429 B.C.) by Sophocles
Wasps (422 B.C.) by Aristophanes
Women at the Thesmophoria Festival (411 B.C.) by Aristophanes
Electra (c. 409 B.C.) by Sophocles
The Bacchae aka The Bacchantes (405 B.C.) by Euripides
Plutus aka Wealth (388 B.C.) by Aristophanes
The Rope aka Rudens (c. 211 B.C.) by Titus Maccius Plautus
The Haunted House (200 B.C.) by Titus Maccius Plautus
The Pot of Gold (c. 194 B.C.) by Titus Maccius Plautus
Mad Hercules aka Hercules Furens (c. 54 A.D.) by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Phaedra (c. 60 A.D.) by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Thyestes (c. 60 A.D.) by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The Little Clay Cart (Sixth Century A.D.?), attributed to King Shudraka
The Miracle of Saint Nicholas and the Schoolboys (Twelfth Century) by Anonymous
The Miracle of Saint Nicholas and the Image (Twelfth Century) by Hilarius
Daniel (c. 1140 A.D.) by Hilarius
Abraham and Isaac (c. 1400 A.D-1425 A.D.) by Anonymous
David and Bathsheba (c. 1450 A.D.-1500 A.D.) by Anonymous
The Second Shepherds' Play (Mid-Fifteenth Century) by the Wakefield Master
The Killing of Abel (Latter Half of the Fifteenth Century) by the Wakefield Master
The Mystery of the Redemption aka Indus Coventriae (1468 A.D.) by Anonymous
Pierre Patelin aka Master Pierre Patelin (c. 1469 A.D.) by Anonymous
Orbecche (1541 A.D.) by Giovanni Battista Giraldi
Herod the Great (c. 1554 A.D.-1576 A.D.) by the Wakefield Master
Gammer Gurton's Needle (c. 1560 A.D.) by "Mr. S., Master of Art"
Gorboduc (1561 A.D.) by Thomas Norton and Thomas Sackville
The Life of Cambyses, King of Percia (c. 1561 A.D.) by Thomas Preston
The Three Ladies of London (1581 A.D.) by Robert Wilson
Tambnrlaine the Great (1587 A.D.) by Christopher Marlowe
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus (c. 1588 A.D.) by
Christopher Marlowe
The Jew of Malta (c. 1589 A.D.) by Christopher Marlowe
The Spanish Tragedy (c. 1590 A.D.) by Thomas Kyd
Edward the Second (c. 1592 A.D.) by Christopher Marlowe
Arden of Faversham (1592 A.D.) by Anonymous
The Tragedy of King Richard the Third (c. 1593 A.D.) by William Shakespeare
Titus Andronicus (c. 1594 A.D.) by William Shakespeare
The Life and Death of King John (c. 1596 A.D.) by William Shakespeare
The Downfall of Robert, Earl of Huntington (1598 A.D.) and The Death of Robert, Earl of Huntington (1598 A.D.) by Anthony Munday
The Tragedy of Julius Caesar (c. 1599 A.D.) by William Shakespeare
Antonio and Mellida (1599 A.D.) and Antonio's Revenge (1600 A.D.) by John Marston
Hamlet (c. 1600 A.D.) by William Shakespeare
Appendix A. Lethal Poison
Appendix B. Early Trial Plays
Appendix C. Mourning Becomes Electra by Eugene O'Neill
Appendix D. Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Appendix E. A Yorkshire Tragedy by Anonymous
Appendix F. Cue for Passion by Elmer Rice
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