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Aristotle's assertion that in Greek tragedy there is no loftier work than Oedipus the King cannot be lightly contradicted....

A passage of diverse heroics and distant perseverance in quest of the Golden Fleece is with transcendent narrative and canonic rhythm in the Argonautica recounted....

There is no drama where the total multiplicity of horror in defeat is more cogently presented than in The Persians by Aeschylus....

In 1580, the new Lord Deputy of Ireland, Lord Arthur Grey de Wilton, came to Dublin with 3000 troops to end the Desmond Rebellion....

The earls of Essex and Southampton are tried together for high treason before a jury of the noblest peers....

After his disobedient return from Ireland, the Earl of Essex was kept in house arrest, first in York House, then in his own palace, Essex House....

James Burbage, the founder of the Lord Chamberlain's Men, Shakespeare's acting company, is countered by Lady Elizabeth Russell when he constructs a theatre....

Cato, the enemy of Caesar, escaped with other Roman senators and remnant legions from the battle of Pharsalus to the Libyan coast, where again Caesar defeated them....

In diverse financial scrimmages, Jay Gould and his adversaries fought to survive and prosper in the difficult markets of the early 1880s....

This historical drama maintains the classical form of tragedy in English, with seven scenes of dialogue and seven choral performances....

Rodrigo Lopez, former physician to Queen Elizabeth, and his supposed accessories are questioned in the Tower on the charge of treason....

Rodrigo Lopez gave offense to the Earl of Essex by revealing his ailments at a feast to both Don Antonio, the deposed king of Portugal, and Antonio Perez....

In the early 1870s Henry Clay Frick, bred in the coal-lands of western Pennsylvania, foresaw the importance of coke in the Bessemer or Kelly process of steel-making....

This drama is part of the Gouldium, a series of plays on the life and times of Jay Gould....

Jay Gould returns to Colorado in a second attempt to combine the Kansas Pacific Railroad and her extensions with the Union Pacific....

Holding the Presidency of Erie Railway, Jay Gould fought against an insurgent board of directors that sought his dismissal....

On May 31, 1889, the South Fork Dam in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, under erosive overflows from eight inches of rain, dissolved, a flood unloosing on the narrow valley below, with Johnstown 14 miles down....

The longer that Jay Gould was chief shareholder of Union Pacific, the more advancements for the railroad and for his own system of roads he procured....

1844 maxims of rhythmic justice and assertive rhyme, carried forward in the cause of human dissimilarity upon competitive pretensions for rewards, merciless poetry manifest....

Jay Gould sought to yoke a corner on the gold market in August and September, 1869. His endeavor came to a head on September 24....