Roland at the Battle of Roncesvalles. ROLAND, the hero of Pulci’s “Morgante Maggiore,” was the nephew of Charlemagne. As he was leading the rear-guard of Charlemagne’s army through the valley… Read More
Roland at the Battle of Roncesvalles.
Tag: Character sketches
Character sketches of romance, fiction and the drama by Rev. Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, 1892. A revised American edition of the readers handbook. Edited by Marion Harland.
Edmund Spenser. The Fairy Queen. Florimel and the Witch.
The Faerie Queene is his most important contribution to English poetry which is linked here with the Arthurian legend.
Alethe, Priestess of Isis. The Epicurean, by Thomas Moore.
When Alethe arrived at a suitable age, she was taught, like other children of the priestesses, to take a share in the service and ceremonies of the shrines.
Tannhäuser. Elizabeth, the Landgravine. Richard Wagner.
Tannhäuser. Elizabeth, the Landgravine. ELIZABETH is kneeling at the shrine in prayer for Tannhäuser, when she hears the chorus of the band of returning pilgrims, of whom he was one.
Torquato Tasso and Leonora d’Este. A drama by J. W. von Goethe.
Torquato Tasso and Leonora d’Este is a drama in five acts by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. The Italian poet Torquato Tasso is the focus of the action.
Electra waits for the return of Orestes.
Electra, the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, mourning the fate of her father, waits for the return of Orestes, her brother, as the avenger of his father’s death.
Esmeralda. Phoebus de Chateaupers. Notre Dame de Paris.
Phoebus de Chateaupers. Captain of the archers.
Nathan the Wise. The Sultan Saladin and his Sister Sittah.
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s Nathan the Wise. The action takes place during the Third Crusade (1189-1192) during a truce in Jerusalem. The work has as main topics the humanism and tolerance ideas of the Enlightenment.
Lancelot and Elaine, The Lady of Shalott.
Lancelot and Elaine. ELAINE the fair, Elaine the lovable, Elaine the lily maid of Astolat, High in her chamber up a tower to the East Guarded the sacred shield of… Read More
Mary Stuart. Drama by Friedrich Schiller, 1800.
Mary Stuart is a classic drama by Friedrich Schiller. The tragedy was first performed at the Weimar Court Theater on June 14, 1800.