Erodiade (Herodias / 1832 Pellico), play
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Erodiade <Italian> / Herodias (1832) is a play by Silvio Pellico.
Abstract
The tragedy in five acts focuses on the relationship between Herod Antipas and Herodias. Salome is still a marginal (and unnamed) character in the story, simply introduced as "a ten- or twelve-year-old child." The protagonist of the killing of John the Baptist is still Herodias, like in the original biblical narrative.
Characters
- GIOVANNI BATTISTA (John the Baptist)
- ERODE, re di Galilea (Herod Antipas)
- SEFORA, sua sposa, figlia d’ Areta, re degli Arabi.
- ERODIADE (Herodias), rapita da Erode a Filippo fratello di esso, figlia d’Aristobulo, sommo sacerdote, l’ultimo de’ Maccabei, il quale fu ucciso dal padre d’ Erode.
- Una Figlia d’Erodiade di dieci o dodici anni. (Salome)
- ANNA, confidente d’Erodiade.
- Un Messo del re Areta.
- Vergini
- Giovani Guerrieri.
- Guardie.
Editions, performances
Published in Milan, Italy: P.M. Visaj, 1832. Premiered in 1883.
External links
Categories:
- 1832
- Fiction--1800s
- Fiction--Italian
- Literature--1800s
- Plays
- Italian language--1800s
- Made in the 1830s
- Second Temple Studies--1800s
- Second Temple Studies--Fiction
- Second Temple Studies--Italian
- Christian Origins Studies--1800s
- Christian Origins Studies--Fiction
- Christian Origins Studies--Italian
- Death of John the Baptist (subject)
- Herodias (subject)
- Herodias--literature (subject)
- Herod Antipas--literature (subject)
- Salome--literature (subject)
- John the Baptist--literature (subject)