A King and No King (Masterplots, Revised Second Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher
- First Published: 1619
- Type of Work: Drama
- Type of Plot: Tragicomedy
- Time of Work: Indeterminate
- Setting: Armenia and Iberia
- Principal Characters: Arbaces, Tigranes, Gobrias, Bacurius, Mardonius, Bessus, Lygones, Arane, Panthea, Spaconia
- Genres: Drama, Comedy, Tragedy, Tragicomedy
- Subjects: Love or romance, Europe or Europeans, Incest, Seventeenth century, Kings, queens, or royalty, Duels or dueling, Armenia or Armenians
- Locales: Armenia, Iberia
The Story:
Arbaces, the valiant young king of Iberia, had just ended a long war against Armenia by defeating in single combat Tigranes, the king of that country. Arbaces, although a hero in war, was also an intensely passionate man; honest and outspoken Mardonius commented that he was capable of the wildest extremities of emotion and that he could move through the entire emotional range with the greatest speed. Inflamed by his victory, Arbaces illustrated the qualities Mardonius ascribed to him. In a series of blustering speeches he showed himself to be inordinately proud. When...
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Francis Beaumont (Cyclopedia of World Authors)Francis Beaumont (Dictionary of World Biography)Francis Beaumont (Drama)John Fletcher (Cyclopedia of World Authors)John Fletcher (Dictionary of World Biography)John Fletcher (Drama)
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