Sardanapalus (play), the Glossary

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1. 61 relations: Alphonse Duvernoy, André Caplet, Arbaces, Artaxerxes I, Aspasia, Assyria, Baronne Almaury de Maistre, Bibliotheca historica, Blank verse, Bologna, Booth's Theatre, Brussels, Cain (play), Chaldea, Charles Alexander Calvert, Charles Kean, Charlotte Mardyn, Classical unities, Closet drama, Conservatoire de Paris, Diodorus Siculus, Ellen Kean, Ernest Hartley Coleridge, Eugène Delacroix, Euphrates, Franz Liszt, Giulio Alary, Hector Berlioz, Ildebrando Pizzetti, Internet Archive, Jean François Gail, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Murray (publishing house), Juvenal, Lord Byron, Maurice Ravel, Medes, Nineveh, Open University, Parallel Lives, Plutarch, Princess's Theatre, London, Prix de Rome, Prix de Rome cantatas (Berlioz), Quintus Curtius Rufus, Ravenna, Sardanapalo, Sardanapalus, Satires (Juvenal), Satrap, ... Expand index (11 more) »

2. 1821 books
3. 1821 plays
4. Assyria
5. Closet drama
6. Plays by Lord Byron
7. Sardanapalus

Alphonse Duvernoy

Victor-Alphonse Duvernoy (30 August 1842 – 7 March 1907) was a French pianist and composer.

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André Caplet

André Caplet (23 November 1878 – 22 April 1925) was a French composer and conductor of classical music. He was a friend of Claude Debussy and completed the orchestration of several of Debussy's compositions as well as arrangements of several of them for different instruments.

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Arbaces

Arbaces was the name of more than one person of classical antiquity.

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Artaxerxes I

Artaxerxes I (𐎠𐎼𐎫𐎧𐏁𐏂𐎠; Ἀρταξέρξης) was the fifth King of Kings of the Achaemenid Empire, from 465 to December 424 BC.

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Aspasia

Aspasia (Ἀσπασία; after 428 BC) was a metic woman in Classical Athens.

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Assyria

Assyria (Neo-Assyrian cuneiform: x16px, māt Aššur) was a major ancient Mesopotamian civilization which existed as a city-state from the 21st century BC to the 14th century BC, which eventually expanded into an empire from the 14th century BC to the 7th century BC.

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Baronne Almaury de Maistre

Baronne Almaury de Maistre (Baroness Almaury de Maistre) née Henriette-Marie de Sainte-Marie (31 July 1809, Nevers – 7 June 1875, Chaulgnes) was a French composer.

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Bibliotheca historica

Bibliotheca historica (Βιβλιοθήκη Ἱστορική) is a work of universal history by Diodorus Siculus.

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Blank verse

Blank verse is poetry written with regular metrical but unrhymed lines, usually in iambic pentameter.

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Bologna

Bologna (Bulåggna; Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region, in northern Italy.

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Booth's Theatre

Booth's Theatre was a theatre in New York built by actor Edwin Booth.

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Brussels

Brussels (Bruxelles,; Brussel), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest), is a region of Belgium comprising 19 municipalities, including the City of Brussels, which is the capital of Belgium.

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Cain (play)

Cain is a dramatic work by Lord Byron published in 1821. Sardanapalus (play) and Cain (play) are 1821 plays, closet drama and plays by Lord Byron.

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Chaldea

Chaldea was a small country that existed between the late 10th or early 9th and mid-6th centuries BC, after which the country and its people were absorbed and assimilated into the indigenous population of Babylonia.

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Charles Alexander Calvert

Charles Alexander Calvert (28 February 1828 – 12 June 1879) was a British actor and theatre manager known for arranging new productions of the Shakespearean canon featuring elaborate staging and what were considered historically accurate sets and costumes.

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Charles Kean

Charles John Kean (18 January 181122 January 1868) was an Irish-born English actor and theatre manager, best known for his revivals of Shakespearean plays.

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Charlotte Mardyn

Charlotte Mardyn (c. 1789 – after 1844) was an English actress of Irish descent of the early 19th-century who was rumoured to have been the mistress of Lord Byron.

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Classical unities

The classical unities, Aristotelian unities, or three unities represent a prescriptive theory of dramatic tragedy that was introduced in Italy in the 16th century and was influential for three centuries.

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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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Conservatoire de Paris

The Conservatoire de Paris, also known as the Paris Conservatory, is a college of music and dance founded in 1795.

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Diodorus Siculus

Diodorus Siculus or Diodorus of Sicily (Diódōros; 1st century BC) was an ancient Greek historian.

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Ellen Kean

Ellen Kean (12 December 1805 – 20 August 1880) was an English actress.

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Ernest Hartley Coleridge

Ernest Hartley Coleridge (1846–1920) was a British literary scholar and poet.

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Eugène Delacroix

Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix (26 April 1798 – 13 August 1863) was a French Romantic artist who was regarded as the leader of the French Romantic school.

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Euphrates

The Euphrates (see below) is the longest and one of the most historically important rivers of Western Asia.

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Franz Liszt

Franz Liszt (22 October 1811 – 31 July 1886) was a Hungarian composer, virtuoso pianist, conductor and teacher of the Romantic period.

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Giulio Alary

Giulio Alary (sometimes Alari) (1814–1891) was an Italian composer.

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Hector Berlioz

Louis-Hector Berlioz (11 December 1803 – 8 March 1869) was a French Romantic composer and conductor.

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Ildebrando Pizzetti

Ildebrando Pizzetti (20 September 1880 – 13 February 1968) was an Italian composer of classical music, as well as being a musicologist and a music critic.

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Internet Archive

The Internet Archive is an American nonprofit digital library founded in 1996 by Brewster Kahle.

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Jean François Gail

Jean François Gail (1795–1845) was a French classicist, the only son of the prolific hellenist and editor Jean-Baptiste Gail (1755–1829), and his wife Sophie Gail (1775–1819), a singer and composer.

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath and writer, who is widely regarded as the greatest and most influential writer in the German language.

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John Murray (publishing house)

John Murray is a Scottish publisher, known for the authors it has published in its long history including Jane Austen, Arthur Conan Doyle, Lord Byron, Charles Lyell, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Herman Melville, Edward Whymper, Thomas Robert Malthus, David Ricardo, and Charles Darwin.

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Juvenal

Decimus Junius Juvenalis, known in English as Juvenal, was a Roman poet active in the late first and early second century AD.

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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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Maurice Ravel

Joseph Maurice Ravel (7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor.

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Medes

The Medes (Old Persian: 𐎶𐎠𐎭; Akkadian: 13px, 13px; Ancient Greek: Μῆδοι; Latin: Medi) were an ancient Iranian people who spoke the Median language and who inhabited an area known as Media between western and northern Iran. Around the 11th century BC, they occupied the mountainous region of northwestern Iran and the northeastern and eastern region of Mesopotamia in the vicinity of Ecbatana (present-day Hamadan).

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Nineveh

Nineveh (𒌷𒉌𒉡𒀀, URUNI.NU.A, Ninua; נִינְוֵה, Nīnəwē; نَيْنَوَىٰ, Naynawā; ܢܝܼܢܘܹܐ, Nīnwē), also known in early modern times as Kouyunjik, was an ancient Assyrian city of Upper Mesopotamia, located in the modern-day city of Mosul in northern Iraq.

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Open University

The Open University (OU) is a public research university and the largest university in the United Kingdom by number of students.

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Parallel Lives

The Parallel Lives (Βίοι Παράλληλοι, Bíoi Parállēloi; Vītae Parallēlae) is a series of 48 biographies of famous men written by the Greco-Roman philosopher, historian, and Apollonian priest Plutarch, probably at the beginning of the second century.

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Plutarch

Plutarch (Πλούταρχος, Ploútarchos;; – after AD 119) was a Greek Middle Platonist philosopher, historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi.

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Princess's Theatre, London

The Princess's Theatre or Princess Theatre was a theatre in Oxford Street, London.

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Prix de Rome

The Prix de Rome or Grand Prix de Rome was a French scholarship for arts students, initially for painters and sculptors, that was established in 1663 during the reign of Louis XIV of France.

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Prix de Rome cantatas (Berlioz)

The French composer Hector Berlioz made four attempts at winning the Prix de Rome music prize, finally succeeding in 1830.

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Quintus Curtius Rufus

Quintus Curtius Rufus was a Roman historian, probably of the 1st century, author of his only known and only surviving work, Historiae Alexandri Magni, "Histories of Alexander the Great", or more fully Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis Libri Qui Supersunt, "All the Books That Survive of the Histories of Alexander the Great of Macedon." Much of it is missing.

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Ravenna

Ravenna (also; Ravèna, Ravêna) is the capital city of the Province of Ravenna, in the Emilia-Romagna region of Northern Italy.

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Sardanapalo

Sardanapalo or Sardanapale (Italian or French for Sardanapalus), S.687, is an unfinished opera by Franz Liszt based on the 1821 verse play Sardanapalus by Lord Byron. Sardanapalus (play) and Sardanapalo are Sardanapalus.

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Sardanapalus

Sardanapalus (Σαρδανάπαλος; sometimes spelled Sardanapallus (Σαρδανάπαλλος)) was, according to the Greek writer Ctesias, the last king of Assyria, although in fact Aššur-uballiṭ II (612–605 BC) holds that distinction.

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Satires (Juvenal)

The Satires are a collection of satirical poems by the Latin author Juvenal written between the end of the first and the early second centuries A.D. Juvenal is credited with sixteen poems divided among five books; all are in the Roman genre of satire. The genre is defined by a wide-ranging discussion of society and social mores in dactylic hexameter.

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Satrap

A satrap was a governor of the provinces of the ancient Median and Persian (Achaemenid) Empires and in several of their successors, such as in the Sasanian Empire and the Hellenistic empires.

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Seneca the Younger

Lucius Annaeus Seneca the Younger (AD 65), usually known mononymously as Seneca, was a Stoic philosopher of Ancient Rome, a statesman, dramatist, and in one work, satirist, from the post-Augustan age of Latin literature.

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Teresa, Contessa Guiccioli

Teresa, Contessa Guiccioli (1800–1873) was an Italian noblewoman and the married lover of Lord Byron while he was living in Ravenna and writing the first five cantos of Don Juan.

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The Death of Sardanapalus

The Death of Sardanapalus (La Mort de Sardanapale) is an oil painting on canvas by the French artist Eugène Delacroix, dated 1827. Sardanapalus (play) and the Death of Sardanapalus are Sardanapalus.

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The Two Foscari (Byron)

The Two Foscari: An Historical Tragedy (1821) is a verse play in five acts by Lord Byron. Sardanapalus (play) and The Two Foscari (Byron) are 1821 plays and plays by Lord Byron.

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Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, commonly known as Drury Lane, is a West End theatre and Grade I listed building in Covent Garden, London, England.

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Tragedy

Tragedy (from the τραγῳδία, tragōidia) is a genre of drama based on human suffering and, mainly, the terrible or sorrowful events that befall a main character or cast of characters.

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Victorin de Joncières

Félix-Ludger Rossignol, known as Victorin de Joncières (12 April 1839 – 26 October 1903), was a French composer and music critic.

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Vittorio Alfieri

Count Vittorio Alfieri (also,; 16 January 17498 October 1803) was an Italian dramatist and poet, considered the "founder of Italian tragedy." He wrote nineteen tragedies, sonnets, satires, and a notable autobiography.

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Weimar

Weimar is a city in the German state of Thuringia, in Central Germany between Erfurt to the west and Jena to the east, southwest of Leipzig, north of Nuremberg and west of Dresden.

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William Macready

William Charles Macready (3 March 179327 April 1873) was an English stage actor.

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William Mitford

William Mitford (10 February 1744 – 10 February 1827) was an English historian, landowner, and politician.

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See also

1821 books

• 1821 in literature
• Confidential Memoirs: or Adventures of A Parrot, A Greyhound, A Cat and A Monkey
• Narrative of the Chinese Embassy to the Khan of the Tourgouth Tartars
• Sardanapalus (play)
• St Petersburg Dialogues
• Table-Talk
• The Calendar of Nature
• The Fall of the Angels

1821 plays

• Cain (play)
• Conscience (play)
• Damon and Pythias (1821 play)
• Kenilworth (play)
• Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice
• Michael Howe, The Terror of Van Diemen's Land
• Mirandola: a Tragedy
• Sardanapalus (play)
• The Prince of Homburg (play)
• The Two Foscari (Byron)
• Tom and Jerry, or Life in London

Assyria

• Assyria
• Assyrian culture
• Assyrian people
• Assyriology
• History of Assyria
• Sardanapalus (play)

Closet drama

• Boris Godunov (play)
• Cain (play)
• Cicilia and Clorinda
• Closet drama
• Love's Victory
• Manfred
• Prometheus Unbound (Shelley)
• Samson Agonistes
• Sardanapalus (play)
• The Convent of Pleasure
• The Dynasts
• The Gardener's Son (screenplay)
• Thomaso

Plays by Lord Byron

• Cain (play)
• Manfred
• Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice
• Sardanapalus (play)
• The Two Foscari (Byron)

Sardanapalus

• Dionysus Sardanapalus
• Sardanapalo
• Sardanapalus
• Sardanapalus (play)
• The Birds (play)
• The Death of Sardanapalus
• The Fall of Nineveh
• War Gods of Babylon

References

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

, Seneca the Younger, Teresa, Contessa Guiccioli, The Death of Sardanapalus, The Two Foscari (Byron), Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, Tragedy, Victorin de Joncières, Vittorio Alfieri, Weimar, William Macready, William Mitford.