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This is a list of all works by Irish poet and dramatist W. B. (William Butler) Yeats (1865–1939), winner of the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature and a major figure in 20th-century literature. Works sometimes appear twice if parts of new editions or significantly revised.
Dramatis personae (Latin: 'persons of the drama') are the main characters in a dramatic work written in a list. [not verified in body] Such lists are commonly employed in various forms of theatre, and also on screen. [not verified in body] Typically, off-stage characters are not considered part of the dramatis personae.
The Dramatis Personae in ancient comedy depends on interpretation of textual evidence. [1] This list is based on Alan Sommerstein's translation. [2] Dikaiopolis; Crier; Amphitheus an immortal; Ambassador lately returned from Persian court; Pseudartabas The Great King's Eye; Theorus ambassador to Thrace; Daughter to Dikaiopolis; Cephisophon ...
It was his first publication after a nine-year hiatus. During this time, Browning's reputation was fluctuating, and Dramatis Personae along with The Ring and the Book, which is widely considered his greatest work, were enough to begin a critical re-evaluation of the writer.
The play begins with two middle-aged men stumbling across a hillside wilderness, guided by a pet crow and a pet jackdaw. One of them advises the audience that they are fed up with life in Athens, where people do nothing all day but argue over laws, and they are looking for Tereus, a king who was once metamorphosed into the Hoopoe, for they believe he might help them find a better life ...
Today the women at the festival Are going to kill me for insulting them! [5]This bold statement by Euripides is the absurd premise upon which the whole play depends. The women are incensed by his plays' portrayal of the female sex as mad, murderous, and sexually depraved, and they are using the festival of the Thesmophoria (an annual fertility celebration dedicated to Demeter) as an ...
Selimus, or The Tragedy of Selimus, Sometime Emperor of the Turks, is a dramatic tragedy generally attributed to the authors Robert Greene and Thomas Lodge. [1] It is an early example of a "Turk play", which became a popular dramatic subject during the English Renaissance.
O Lord, guide us: Motto of the City of London, England. Domine salvum fac Regem: O Lord, save the king: Psalm 20, 10. Domine salvam fac Reginam: O Lord, save the queen: After Psalm 20, 10. Dominica in albis [depositis] Sunday in [Setting Aside the] White Garments: Latin name of the Octave of Easter in the Roman Catholic liturgy. Dominus ...