"is the predominant feeling of the mind."" A focal point of Hazlitt's account of ""Troilus and Cressida"" is a comparison of the characterisation in this play and that in Chaucer's poem ""Troilus and Criseyde"" (one of Shakespeare's sources). Chaucer's characters are full and well developed; but Chaucer unfolded each character in itself, one at a time. Shakespeare displayed characters as they see themselves as well as how others see them, and showed the effects each has on the others. Shakespeare's characters were so distinctive that it is as if each were expressed by a distinct ""faculty"" of his mind; and,"
"Adelphoe Adelphoe (also Adelphoi and Adelphi – The Brothers) is a play by Roman playwright Terence, adapted partly from plays by Menander and Diphilus. It was first performed in 160 BC at the funeral games of Aemilius Paulus. Exploring the best form of child-rearing, the play inspired Molière's ""The School for Husbands"". ""Adelphoe"" is often considered Terence's masterpiece. Demea, father to Aeschinus and Ctesipho, decides to separate his children and raises Ctesipho while allowing his brother Micio to raise Aeschinus. Demea is a strict authoritarian father, and Micio is permissive and democratic. Ctesipho falls in love, but is afraid of"
"of Alexander the Great, and features the major historical figures of the era: Antigonus, his son Demetrius, and Seleucus, Ptolemy, and Lysimachus. The plot centers on the love between Demetrius and an obscure young woman named Celia—who at the end of the play turns out to be Enanthe, the daughter of King Seleucus and so a suitable match for a prince. The title character is the play's main comic relief: an otherwise-unnamed lieutenant who is capable of fighting ferociously in battle but is a profound hypochondriac the rest of the time. He is ""humorous"" in the seventeenth-century sense of the"
"Deiphobus In Greek mythology, Deiphobus (Ancient Greek: Δηίφοβος, ""Deiphobos"") was a son of Priam and Hecuba. He was a prince of Troy, and the greatest of Priam's sons after Hector and Paris. Deiphobus killed four men of fame in the Trojan War. According to the ""Iliad"" (books XII, XIV, XXII), in the Trojan War Deiphobus, along with his brother Helenus, led a group of soldiers at the siege of the newly constructed Argive wall and killed many, and wounded the Achaean hero Meriones. As Hector was fleeing Achilles, Athena took the shape of Deiphobus and goaded Hector to make a"
"unpleasant character. Deiphobus In Greek mythology, Deiphobus (Ancient Greek: Δηίφοβος, ""Deiphobos"") was a son of Priam and Hecuba. He was a prince of Troy, and the greatest of Priam's sons after Hector and Paris. Deiphobus killed four men of fame in the Trojan War. According to the ""Iliad"" (books XII, XIV, XXII), in the Trojan War Deiphobus, along with his brother Helenus, led a group of soldiers at the siege of the newly constructed Argive wall and killed many, and wounded the Achaean hero Meriones. As Hector was fleeing Achilles, Athena took the shape of Deiphobus and goaded Hector to"
"between her and Apelles can flower; he turns his attention to the invasion of Persia and further conquests. Alexander also spends his time in Athens conversing and consorting with the philosophers of the era – most notably with Diogenes, whose famous tub is prominently featured onstage. Diogenes is little impressed with the conqueror. Aristotle and Plato share a conversation, and other philosophers appear as well. The play also features the witty pages that are a hallmark of Lyly's drama. The play's prose style is heavily ""euphuistic,"" sharing significant commonalities with Lyly's famous novel ""Euphues"" (1578). Notably, Apelles is a crucial"
"Shakespeare's play ""Hamlet""; According to Scott-Douglas, Alexander observes Oscar playing ""Hamlet""'s Ghost before he dies, and afterwards appears as a ghost, while Alexander acquires a new abusive stepfather. This made ""theatre and reality seem indistinguishable"". Cohen-Shalev argued Oscar being reduced to a ghost is his punishment for never truly living, and losing his life. Törnqvist wrote the ""triangle"" of Alexander, Emelie and Edvard is explicitly explained with Emelie's reference to ""Hamlet"", and the characters Hamlet, Queen Gertrude and King Claudius: ""Don't act Hamlet, my son. I'm not Queen Gertrude, your kind stepfather is no king of Denmark, and this is"
"will be their strict father if they so desire him to be, but if they prefer to stay with Micio, they can. Both boys choose to submit to Demea, with Micio's approval. At the end of the play, Ctesipho is going to marry his loved one, Micio marries Sostrata and Aeschinus marries Pamphila, Sostrata's daughter. Adelphoe Adelphoe (also Adelphoi and Adelphi – The Brothers) is a play by Roman playwright Terence, adapted partly from plays by Menander and Diphilus. It was first performed in 160 BC at the funeral games of Aemilius Paulus. Exploring the best form of child-rearing, the"
"in the last. ""Alexander Balus"" was composed in the summer of 1747 and premiered on 23 March 1748 at Covent Garden Theatre, London, with Caterina Galli singing the title role, Thomas Lowe as Jonathan, and Thomas Reinhold as Ptolemee. In 1754 Handel made a revision to his work and changed the leading role, the king Alexander, to a soprano instead of an alto. Act 1 Alexander claimed the throne of Syria by killing Demetrius the king. Alexander then befriends the Jews and their leader Jonathan Maccabaeus. The king of Egypt, Ptolemee, congratulates Alexander and celebrates his successes by awarding him"
"he wishes to be treated. He replies: as a king. Alexander allows Porus to keep his lands and Axiane. Porus is moved and offers Alexander his loyalty and friendship. Alexandre aux Indes Alexandre aux Indes (""Alexander in India"") is an opera by the French composer Nicolas-Jean Lefroid de Méreaux, first performed at the Académie Royale de Musique (the Paris Opera) on 26 August 1783. It takes the form of a ""tragédie lyrique"" in three acts. The libretto, by Étienne Morel de Chédeville, concerns Alexander the Great and the Indian king Porus. The plot has similarities with Racine's tragedy ""Alexandre le"
"about which of Priam's surviving sons she should remarry: Helenus or Deiphobus, but she was given to the latter. During the fall of Troy, Helen's role is ambiguous. In Virgil's ""Aeneid"", Deiphobus gives an account of Helen's treacherous stance: when the Trojan Horse was admitted into the city, she feigned Bacchic rites, leading a chorus of Trojan women, and, holding a torch among them, she signaled to the Greeks from the city's central tower. In ""Odyssey"", however, Homer narrates a different story: Helen circled the Horse three times, and she imitated the voices of the Greek women left behind at"
"of his increasing power spreading into southern Greece. Chief among them is Demosthenes, who attempts to molest Alexander, mistaking him for a slave. Alexander is revenged when he reveals himself as Philip's heir just as Demosthenes is about to speak. Demosthenes is also humiliated because his speech is plagiarized by another envoy, Aeschines. Alexander befriends a young Thracian, Lambaros, living at the court as a hostage, despite the snobbery which the other Macedonians display toward him. Alexander learns eagerly from his tutors, and bemoans the fact that he must sleep when there is so much he wants to do. His"
"notably William Caxton's ""The Golden Legend"" and Thomas Deloney's ""The Gentle Craft"". (Deloney's work also inspired Thomas Dekker's famous play ""The Shoemaker's Holiday"".) Rowley depended on the ""Chronicles"" of Raphael Holinshed for his account of the early Christian martyr St. Alban (""Albon"" in the play). ""A Shoemaker a Gentleman"" shares a range of resemblances and common features with other plays of its era. Its general ambience is strongly similar to Dekker's ""Shoemaker's Holiday"". Its setting in ancient Britain, and its plot device of the two British princes living humble lives in disguise and under assumed names, suggests Shakespeare's ""Cymbeline"". The"
"Parmenion, Alexander stepped into a hypogeium, which contained several stone sarcophagi. These were adorned with peculiar inscriptions: Thus, the readers are introduced to the novel's significant characters. Then a box of cypress wood was found among the relics, bearing the inscription: ""Oh, stranger, who opens this, learn from the miracles."" Alexander and his companions naturally opened it up, finding in it the report of Deinias and Derkyllis, which forms the main narrative of the novel. In this narrative, two Greek natives of Arcadia, Deinias and his son Demochares, are off on a journey to the outermost edges of the Oikoumene."
"in the very flower of boyhood, with whom Darius was intimate and with whom Alexander would later be intimate."" Plutarch recounts an episode (also mentioned by Dicaearchus) during some festivities on the way back from India in which his men clamor for him to kiss the young man: ""We are told, too, that he was once viewing some contests in singing and dancing, being well heated with wine, and that his favorite, Bagoas, won the prize for song and dance, and then, all in his festal array, passed through the theatre and took his seat by Alexander's side; at sight"
"throne. When Henry shares Robert Devereux's plan with Edward, he warns him that Robert Devereux's actions could lead to civil war if not managed carefully. Ben is to act as author of Edward's play, ""Henry V"". At curtain call however, William Shakespeare, a ""drunken oaf"", steps forward to be recognized as the author of the play. Elizabeth accepts a gift that evokes a memory from forty years before, when the boy, Edward, performed in his own play, ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"" as Puck. The teenage Edward must has secretly written his plays, when his education is entrusted to the puritanical"
"- these were by Diphilus, Philemon and Apollodorus of Carystus. Two Latin comedies survive which were based on Greek plays dealing with heiresses: the ""Phormio"", which is based on Apollodorus' ""Epidikazmenos""; and the ""Adelphoe"", which is based on Menander's play ""Adelphoi"". A speech of Andocides indirectly concerns ""epikleroi"", as the orator claimed that the real origin of the dispute between himself and his cousin Leagros was over which of them would claim an heiress that both were related to. Demosthenes' speech ""Against Macartatus"" includes a description of Sositheos' claiming of the ""epikleros"" Phulomakhe. Epikleros An epikleros (; plural ""epikleroi"") was"
"read a manuscript of Young's English translation, or encountered the story in French, or learned of it from an anonymous English play, ""The History of Felix and Philiomena"", which may have been based on ""Diana"", and which was performed for the court at Greenwich Palace by the Queen's Men on 3 January 1585. ""The History of Felix and Philiomena"" is now lost. Another major influence on Shakespeare was the story of the intimate friendship of Titus and Gisippus as told in Thomas Elyot's ""The Boke Named the Governour"" in 1531 (the same story is told in ""The Decameron"" by Giovanni"
"Dombey and Son is called Diogenes. Alexander's meeting with Diogenes is portrayed in Valerio Manfredi's ""(Alexander Trilogy) ""The Ends of the Earth"""". William S. Burroughs has been described as ""Diogenes with a knife and gun."" The many allusions to dogs in Shakespeare's ""Timon of Athens"" are references to the school of Cynicism that could be interpreted as suggesting a parallel between the misanthropic hermit, Timon, and Diogenes; but Shakespeare would have had access to Michel de Montaigne's essay, ""Of Democritus and Heraclitus"", which emphasised their differences: Timon actively wishes men ill and shuns them as dangerous, whereas Diogenes esteems them"
"died and Alexander is given another opportunity to prove that he is a true model of noble character. He grants Poros and Cleophis their freedom and their empire, and Gandartes is given feudal tenure over the lands conquered by Alexander on the far side of the Ganges. Poros now shows himself to be high-minded, rewarding Gandartes' loyalty by marrying him to his sister Eryxene. Hasse: ""Cleofide"", Cappella Coloniensis Cleofide Cleofide (""Cleophis"") is an opera seria in three acts by Johann Adolf Hasse. The Italian libretto was adapted from Metastasio's ""Alessandro nell'Indie"" by Michelangelo Boccardi. Boccardi's adaptation of the libretto shifted"
"loves Helena. Demetrius watched the tale of Pyramus and Thisbe performed by the six craftsmen on Duke Theseus and the Duchess's wedding day at night, alongside Helena, Lysander and Hermia. Demetrius and the other four lovers share a wedding with Theseus and his soon-to-be wife. Demetrius (A Midsummer Night's Dream) Demetrius is one of the iconic lovers in William Shakespeare's play ""A Midsummer Night's Dream"". He is a young Athenian who is engaged to another young Athenian, Hermia. He claims to love her, but really appears this way to gain Duke Theseus' and Egeus' support (in one interpretation). However, Hermia"
"The first four that Shakespeare wrote are sometimes called the ""minor tetralogy"", and the second the major tetralogy. While it is not known whether Shakespeare conceived of the plays as a cycle, these plays are often interpreted and performed in relation to each other, since they represent a continuous period of English history using recurring characters and including direct references to previous plays. While ""Julius Caesar"" and ""Antony and Cleopatra"" also contain recurring characters (the members of the Second Triumvirate), the two plays are very different in style and are believed to have been written a decade apart. In contrast,"
"her that his love is genuine; he proposes, and she accepts him. They are joined by the others, Lycomedes now content to surrender Achilles to the Greek cause. Ulysses joins the hands of Deidamia and Achilles, and the final chorus encourages them, and us, to take our fleeting pleasures while we may. Libretto] in Italian/English of ""Deidamia"" https://www.naxosmusiclibrary.com/sharedfiles/booklets/ALY/booklet-TROY460.pdf Deidamia (opera) Deidamia (HWV 42) is an opera in three acts composed by George Frideric Handel to an Italian libretto by Paolo Antonio Rolli. It premiered on 10 January 1741 at Lincoln's Inn Fields Theatre, London. A ballad opera on the same"
"opportunity to escape on the boat given to them for the ceremony. Theoclymenus is furious when he learns of the trick and nearly murders his sister Theonoe for not telling him that Menelaus is still alive. However, he is prevented by the miraculous intervention of the demi-gods Castor and Polydeuces, brothers of Helen and the sons of Zeus and Leda. Helen (play) Helen (, ""Helenē"") is a drama by Euripides about Helen, first produced in 412 BC for the Dionysia in a trilogy that also contained Euripides' lost ""Andromeda"". The play has much in common with ""Iphigenia in Tauris"", one"
"friends. Driven by a deep-felt insecurity, he has to kill people close to him including even the father figure Cleitus. He tries to justify his actions in the name of his dreams of the world empire, but is haunted by loneliness in the end The play holds a deeper significance, that the conquests of Alexander were actually trials to find himself and achieve spiritual enlightenment, through becoming a god (see Theosis). The play ends with a nihilistic tone, that Alexander was to die and fade after all, his last words in the play are 'Who is to succeed me to"
"Thomas of Canterbury ""though they contain fine passages, suffer from diffuseness and a lack of dramatic spirit"". Alexander the Great, a Dramatic Poem Alexander the Great, a Dramatic Poem is a work by Irish poet and playwright Aubrey Thomas de Vere. It was published in 1874 by Henry S. King and Co. It tells about Macedonian king Alexander the Great and his war against the Persians. The drama was dedicated ""To the Memory of Coleridge"". It is written in blank verse. There are more than 30 dramatis personae, to say nothing of anonymous soldiers and messengers. According to the authors"
"to Alexander as the mythical hero Achilles and himself as Phoinix. In his mind, Alexander equates his father with Achilles' military colleague but personal enemy, Agamemnon. Alexander has his first meeting with Hephaestion, although it is brief and they argue. Philip returns from war, bringing crowds of slaves with him. He also marries a woman from Thrace to seal an alliance, causing mad jealousy in Olympias. In retaliation, Olympias appears on stage in a celebratory play, something which is allowed her as a priestess of Dionysos, god of theatre, but is still considered wildly shocking since only men are supposed"
"Alexander's Feast (Dryden poem) Alexander's Feast, or the Power of Music (1697) is an ode by John Dryden. It was written to celebrate Saint Cecilia's Day. Jeremiah Clarke set the original ode to music, however the score is now lost. The main body of the poem describes the feast given by Alexander the Great at the Persian capital Persepolis, after his defeat of Darius. Alexander's bard Timotheus sings praises of him. Alexander's emotions are manipulated by the singer's poetry and music. Timotheus glorifies him as a god, puffing up Alexander's pride. He then sings of the pleasures of wine, encouraging"
"Antigone (Sophocles play) Antigone ( ; ) is a tragedy by Sophocles written in or before 441 BC. Of the three Theban plays ""Antigone"" is the third in order of the events depicted in the plays, but it is the first that was written. The play expands on the Theban legend that predates it, and it picks up where Aeschylus' ""Seven Against Thebes"" ends. Prior to the beginning of the play, brothers Eteocles and Polyneices, leading opposite sides in Thebes' civil war, died fighting each other for the throne. Creon, the new ruler of Thebes and brother of the former"
"tells him that he has found Pasicompsa in Eutychus’s own home. Charinus exits into the home, and Eutychus remains outside to confront Lysimachus and Demipho. He tells them Pasicompsa was really Charinus’s lover and that Demipho should be ashamed for trying to take her for himself. He proposes a law that old men should not interfere in the passionate love of young men, and the three exit into Lysimachus’s house. The play makes use of many stock characters, with which theatergoers would have been familiar. Charinus plays the role of the ""adulescens amator,"" Demipho is the ""senex,"" and Pasicompsa is"
"the mountainside. When Oenone hears of his funeral, she runs to his funeral pyre and throws herself in its fire. After Paris's death, his brother Deiphobus married Helen and was then murdered by Menelaus in the sack of Troy. Paris (mythology) Paris (), also known as Alexander (, ""Aléxandros""), the son of King Priam and Queen Hecuba of Troy, appears in a number of Greek legends. Probably the best known was his elopement with Helen, queen of Sparta, this being one of the immediate causes of the Trojan War. Later in the war, he fatally wounds Achilles in the heel"
"another of Shakespeare's Roman plays, ""Antony and Cleopatra."" The main source of the play is Thomas North's translation of Plutarch's ""Lives"". Shakespeare deviated from these historical facts to curtail time and compress the facts so that the play could be staged more easily. The tragic force is condensed into a few scenes for heightened effect. ""Julius Caesar"" was originally published in the First Folio of 1623, but a performance was mentioned by Thomas Platter the Younger in his diary in September 1599. The play is not mentioned in the list of Shakespeare's plays published by Francis Meres in 1598. Based"
"Troy as a bride for his deeds in the war, defeating the bid of his other brother, Helenus. Some accounts say the marriage was by force. When the Trojan Horse was in the city, Deiphobus accompanied Helen as she walked around the horse, calling out the names of the Greeks within in the voices of their wives, because she did not want to look like she was helping them. Menelaus and Odysseus had to hold the men inside back from responding. During the sack of Troy, Deiphobus was slain by either Odysseus or Menelaus, and his body was mutilated. Some"