Herod the Great, King of Judaea

Standard Name: Herod the Great,, King of Judaea

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Intertextuality and Influence Mary Stewart
This book, narrated by Merlin in old age, deals with the darker elements in the Matter of Britain, particularly Arthur's fear of his enchantress half-sister Morgause and of the son she bore to him...
Performance of text Clemence Dane
CD 's play Herod and Mariamne opened at the Nixon Theatre in Pittsburgh.
Weintraub, Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 10. Gale Research, 1982.
10: 133
Dane, Clemence. Herod and Mariamne. Doubleday, Doran, 1938.
vii
Textual Features Laura Riding
She intended it to run from the ancient Persian Empire to the time of King Herod (that is, the time of Christ), and to treat male characters in it (Cyrus , Alexander , Aristotle
Textual Production Michael Field
Queen Mariamne, MF 's play about King Herod 's tragic wife, was published anonymously.
Sturgeon, Mary. Michael Field. G. G. Harrap, 1922.
202, 246
TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012].
356 (5 November 1908): 391
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland
The play is a Senecan tragedy, written for the closet, not the public stage, though it is worth remembering that upper-class circles reading or performing such plays were connoisseurs of the highly dramatised masque...

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