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    Sejanus His Fall, a 1603 play by Ben Jonson, is a tragedy about Lucius Aelius Sejanus, the favourite of the Roman emperor Tiberius. Sejanus His Fall was...
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    Lucius Aelius Sejanus (c. 20 BC – 18 October AD 31), commonly known as Sejanus (/sɪˈdʒeɪnəs/), (Latin: [seːjˈjaːnʊs]) was a Roman soldier, friend, and...
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  • other being Sejanus His Fall (1603). Jonson was not the first playwright of his era to dramatize the story of Catiline. Stephen Gosson in his "School of...
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    influential of Roman history plays. Among the less successful was Jonson's Sejanus His Fall, the 1604 performance of which at the Globe was "hissed off the stage"...
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    Ben Jonson (section His work)
    play Sejanus His Fall was banned for "popery", and did not re-appear until some offending passages were cut. In January 1606 he (with Anne, his wife)...
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    and Sejanus His Fall (1603), for which Ben Jonson was called before the Privy Council, accused of "Popery and treason", as the play was claimed by his enemies...
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  • Company Speaking Like Magpies (2005) – Royal Shakespeare Company Sejanus: His Fall (2005) – Royal Shakespeare Company Believe What You Will (2005) –...
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    names him on the cast lists for Every Man in His Humour (1598) and Sejanus His Fall (1603). The absence of his name from the 1605 cast list for Jonson's...
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  • stepmother. Strachey wrote a sonnet, Upon Sejanus, which was published in the 1605 edition of the 1603 play Sejanus His Fall by Ben Jonson. Strachey also kept...
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    given to most tragedies written by playwright William Shakespeare. Many of his history plays share the qualifiers of a Shakespearean tragedy, but because...
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  • Theatre 2005 A New Way to Please You Footman Royal Shakespeare Company Sejanus: His Fall High Priestess Thomas More Lady Roper Speaking Like Magpies May 2006...
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    Devil of Edmonton Mucedorus The Puritan The Second Maiden's Tragedy Sejanus His Fall Sir John Oldcastle Sir Thomas More ✻ The Spanish Tragedy Thomas Lord...
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  • burning of his writings. Seneca the Younger, however, tells us that he most likely incurred Sejanus' displeasure for criticising him, because Sejanus had commissioned...
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    3; and Richard III. The term Henriad was popularized by Alvin Kernan in his 1969 article, The Henriad: Shakespeare’s Major History Plays to suggest that...
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    The plays have been translated into every major living language. Many of his plays appeared in print as a series of quartos, but approximately half of...
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    the building had become his with the expiry of the lease. On 28 December 1598, while Allen was celebrating Christmas at his country home, carpenter Peter...
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  • wrong with Shakespeare." —Picard's advice to Riker about what to say in his wedding vows, from " 'Til Death", short story by Bob Ingersoll and Thomas...
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  • Altered The Isle of Dogs Every Man in His Humour Every Man out of His Humour Cynthia's Revels Poetaster Sejanus His Fall Eastward Hoe Volpone Epicœne, or The...
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  • play Sejanus His Fall (i.e. "Sejanus's Fall"). It is common in spoken German, e.g. dem Mann sein Haus "the man's house" (literally "to the man, his house")...
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    before any of Shakespeare's plays were published, but not before some of his plays had been acted on stage. It has certain qualities in common with A...
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    The Theatre was constructed in 1576 by James Burbage in partnership with his brother-in-law, one John Brayne, (the owner of the Red Lion) on property...
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    in Every Man in His Humour written by Ben Jonson. He is also listed among the actors in Jonson's Sejanus His Fall. Also by 1598, his name began to appear...
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    Shakespeare's principal female roles, as well as Agrippina in Ben Jonson's Sejanus His Fall. With the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, women began to appear...
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    Shake-speares Sonnets (1609). It is used in the cast list of Ben Jonson's Sejanus His Fall, and in six literary allusions published between 1594 and 1623. The...
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  • English Court. c. April – The King's Men perform Ben Jonson's tragedy Sejanus His Fall (written 1603 and previously presented at Court) at the Globe Theatre...
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    November 2010, having closed in 2007. As well as the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries, the RSC produces new work from living artists. There have...
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    administration largely in the hands of his ambitious praetorian prefect Sejanus, whom he later had executed for treason, and then Sejanus' replacement, Macro. When...
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    His England (1580), the poem Willobie His Avisa (1594), in the travel accounts under the title Purchas His Pilgrimes (1602), Ben Jonson's Sejanus His...
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  • Pierre Corneille Cinna Henrik Ibsen Emperor and Galilean Ben Jonson Sejanus, His Fall Heinrich von Kleist Die Hermannsschlacht William Shakespeare Titus...
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  • chimney-corner, broiling the same bit which was thrown to the raven at the quarry or fall of the deer. Marian being gone in to show the deer to some of the shepherdesses...
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