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Ester d'Engaddi <Italian> / Esther of Engaddi (1821) is a play by Silvio Pellico.

Abstract

A tragedy in five acts by the Italian patriot and writer. The setting is a remote area of Israel where a group of Jewish refugees lives, around 50 years after the destruction of the Temple.

Pellico reverses his present-day's situation; the Christians are the oppressed minority, while the Jews are the majority, ruled by a corrupted High Priest.

The heroine Ester is a Jewess. She is the faithful wife of Azaria, the champion of the Jews in their resistance against the Romans, while her father Eleazaro has been banned as he converted to Christianity.

The tragedy focuses on the plot of the High Priest who slanders and eventually poisons Ester for having rejected his love, while the faithful Ester steadily maintains her loyalty to both her father and husband.

Ester reproaches his father for despising the Jews:

"Agl’idoli empi / non immolar, dritto e’ ma qui mentito / Dio non s’ adora: e (qual pur fosse il Giusto, / che in Golgota moria) de’ giusti il rege / altro esser può che di Giacobbe il Dio?"

With similar world she reproaches the Jews for despising her father:

"Rispettate i suoi giorni; altra è sua legge, / altre le preci ma sol uno è il Dio!"

Ester dies but not before the entire people reconcile with Eleazaro and call him: "Fratello nostro (our brother)."

Nobody converts. Through the sacrifice of Ester, Christians and Jews learn how to live together as siblings.

Gabriele Boccaccini, University of Michigan

Editions, performances

Premiered in Turin, Italy: 1838.

Translations

Ester fin En-Gedi (1881 Yiddish), play (Yiddish ed.)

Adaptations

Ester d'Engaddi (1837 Gioja / Gabrielli), dance

Ester d'Engaddi (1843 Malipiero), opera

Ester d'Engaddi (1843 Peri / Cammarano), opera

Ester d'Engaddi (1846 Graffigna / Cammarano), opera

Ester d'Engaddi (1848 Pacini / Guidi), opera

External links

Wikisource (full text)

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 ==Abstract==
-A tragedy in five acts by the Italian patriot and writer. The setting is a remote area of Israel where a group of Jewish refugees lives around 50 years after the destruction of the Temple.
-==Editions, performances, translations==
+A tragedy in five acts by the Italian patriot and writer. The setting is a remote area of Israel where a group of Jewish refugees lives, around 50 years after the destruction of the Temple.
-Premiered in Turin [Italy]: 1838.
+Pellico reverses his present-day's situation; the Christians are the oppressed minority, while the Jews are the majority, ruled by a corrupted High Priest.
+The heroine Ester is a Jewess. She is the faithful wife of Azaria, the champion of the Jews in their resistance against the Romans, while her father Eleazaro has been banned as he converted to Christianity.
+The tragedy focuses on the plot of the High Priest who slanders and eventually poisons Ester for having rejected his love, while the faithful Ester steadily maintains her loyalty to both her father and husband.
+Ester reproaches his father for despising the Jews:
+"Agl’idoli empi / non immolar, dritto e’ ma qui mentito / Dio non s’ adora: e (qual pur fosse il Giusto, / che in Golgota moria) de’ giusti il rege / altro esser può che di Giacobbe il Dio?"
+With similar world she reproaches the Jews for despising her father:
+"Rispettate i suoi giorni; altra è sua legge, / altre le preci ma sol uno è il Dio!"
+Ester dies but not before the entire people reconcile with Eleazaro and call him: "Fratello nostro (our brother)."
+Nobody converts. Through the sacrifice of Ester, Christians and Jews learn how to live together as siblings.
+* Gabriele Boccaccini, University of Michigan
+==Editions, performances==
+Premiered in [[Turin, Italy]]: 1838.
+====Translations====
-Translated into English, Yiddish and Russian.
 *[[Ester fin En-Gedi (1881 Yiddish), play (Yiddish ed.)]]
-Provides the libretto of four operas:
+====Adaptations====
+*[[Ester d'Engaddi (1837 Gioja / Gabrielli), dance]]
 *[[Ester d'Engaddi (1843 Malipiero), opera]]
-*[[Ester d'Engaddi (1843 Peri), opera]]
-*[[Ester d'Engaddi (1846 Graffigna), opera]]
+*[[Ester d'Engaddi (1843 Peri / Cammarano), opera]]
-*[[Ester d'Engaddi (1848 Pacini), opera]]
+*[[Ester d'Engaddi (1846 Graffigna / Cammarano), opera]]
+*[[Ester d'Engaddi (1848 Pacini / Guidi), opera]]
 ==External links==
-[[Category:Fiction]]
+*[http://it.wikisource.org/wiki/Indice:Ester_D%27Engaddi.djvu Wikisource (full text)]
+[[Category:1821| Pellico]]
+[[Category:Fiction--1800s|1821 Pellico]]
+[[Category:Fiction--Italian|1821 Pellico]]
+[[Category:Literature--1800s|1821 Pellico]]
 [[Category:Plays|1821 Pellico]]
-[[Category:Italian plays|1821 Pellico]]
-[[Category:Italian language|1821 Pellico]]
+[[Category:Italian language--1800s|1821 Pellico]]
-[[Category:Made in the 1820s|1821 Pellico]]
+[[Category:Made in the 1820s| 1821 Pellico]]
+[[Category:Second Temple Studies--1800s|1821 Pellico]]
+[[Category:Second Temple Studies--Fiction|1821 Pellico]]
+[[Category:Second Temple Studies--Italian|1821 Pellico]]
+[[Category:Christian Origins Studies--1800s|1821 Pellico]]
+[[Category:Christian Origins Studies--Fiction|1821 Pellico]]
+[[Category:Christian Origins Studies--Italian|1821 Pellico]]
 [[Category:Esther of Engaddi (subject)|1821 Pellico]]
+[[Category:Esther of Engaddi--fiction (subject)|1821 Pellico]]
+[[Category:Esther of Engaddi--theatre (subject)|1821 Pellico]]
 [[Category:Rabbinic origins (subject)|1821 Pellico]]