Blood on the stage, 480 B.C. to 1600 A.D: milestone plays of murder, mystery, and mayhem: an annotated repertoire

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

Index

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