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Cain (play), the Glossary

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Cain is a dramatic work by Lord Byron published in 1821.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 26 relations: A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful, Adam, Adam and Eve, Angel of the Lord, Book of Genesis, Cain and Abel, Catastrophism, Closet drama, Edmund Burke, Eve, Garden of Eden, Georges Cuvier, Jesus, John Milton, List of minor Hebrew Bible figures, A–K, List of minor Hebrew Bible figures, L–Z, Lord Byron, Lucifer, Mammoth, Michael (archangel), Mystery play, Oxford University Press, Paradise Lost, Parody, The Divine Legation of Moses, William Warburton.

  2. 1821 plays
  3. Closet drama
  4. Cultural depictions of Cain and Abel
  5. Plays based on the Book of Genesis
  6. Plays by Lord Byron

A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful is a 1757 treatise (2nd edition 1759) on aesthetics written by Edmund Burke.

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Adam

Adam is the name given in Genesis 1–5 to the first human.

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Adam and Eve

Adam and Eve, according to the creation myth of the Abrahamic religions, were the first man and woman.

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Angel of the Lord

The (or an) Angel of the Lord (מַלְאַךְ יְהוָה mal’āḵ YHWH "messenger of Yahweh") is an entity appearing repeatedly in the Hebrew Bible on behalf of the God of Israel.

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Book of Genesis

The Book of Genesis (from Greek; בְּרֵאשִׁית|Bərēʾšīṯ|In beginning; Liber Genesis) is the first book of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Old Testament.

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Cain and Abel

In the biblical Book of Genesis, Cain and Abel are the first two sons of Adam and Eve.

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Catastrophism

In geology, catastrophism is the theory that the Earth has largely been shaped by sudden, short-lived, violent events, possibly worldwide in scope.

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Closet drama

A closet drama is a play that is not intended to be performed onstage, but read by a solitary reader or sometimes out loud in a large group.

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Edmund Burke

Edmund Burke (12 January 1729 – 9 July 1797) was an Anglo-Irish statesman and philosopher who spent most of his career in Great Britain.

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Eve

Eve (Ḥawwāʾ; Ḥavā; Heúa; Eva, Heva; Syriac: ܚܰܘܳܐ romanized) is a figure in the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible.

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Garden of Eden

In Abrahamic religions, the Garden of Eden (גַּן־עֵדֶן|gan-ʿĒḏen; Εδέμ; Paradisus) or Garden of God (גַּן־יְהֹוֶה|gan-YHWH|label.

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Georges Cuvier

Jean Léopold Nicolas Frédéric, Baron Cuvier (23 August 1769 – 13 May 1832), known as Georges Cuvier, was a French naturalist and zoologist, sometimes referred to as the "founding father of paleontology".

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Jesus

Jesus (AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ, Jesus of Nazareth, and many other names and titles, was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious leader.

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John Milton

John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet, polemicist, and civil servant.

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List of minor Hebrew Bible figures, A–K

This article contains persons named in the Bible, specifically in the Hebrew Bible, of minor notability, about whom little or nothing is known, aside from some family connections.

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List of minor Hebrew Bible figures, L–Z

This article contains persons named in the Bible, specifically in the Hebrew Bible, of minor notability, about whom little or nothing is known, aside from some family connections.

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Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) was a British poet and peer.

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Lucifer

The most common meaning for Lucifer in English is as a name for the Devil in Christian theology.

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Mammoth

A mammoth is any species of the extinct elephantid genus Mammuthus. They lived from the late Miocene epoch (from around 6.2 million years ago) into the Holocene about 4,000 years ago, and various species existed in Africa, Europe, Asia, and North America.

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Michael (archangel)

Michael, also called Saint Michael the Archangel, Archangel Michael and Saint Michael the Taxiarch is an archangel in Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and the Baha'i faith.

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Mystery play

Mystery plays and miracle plays (they are distinguished as two different forms although the terms are often used interchangeably) are among the earliest formally developed plays in medieval Europe.

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Oxford University Press

Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Paradise Lost

Paradise Lost is an epic poem in blank verse by the 17th-century English poet John Milton (1608–1674). Cain (play) and Paradise Lost are Cultural depictions of Adam and Eve and Fiction about the Devil.

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Parody

A parody is a creative work designed to imitate, comment on, and/or mock its subject by means of satirical or ironic imitation.

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The Divine Legation of Moses

The Divine Legation of Moses is the best-known work of William Warburton, an English theologian of the 18th century who became bishop of Gloucester.

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William Warburton

William Warburton (24 December 16987 June 1779) was an English writer, literary critic and churchman, Bishop of Gloucester from 1759 until his death.

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See also

1821 plays

Closet drama

Cultural depictions of Cain and Abel

Plays based on the Book of Genesis

Plays by Lord Byron

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cain_(play)

Also known as Cain (poem by Byron).