Search results

Mariamne is a 1725 French tragedy by Augustin Nadal based around the Herodian dynasty. Nadal was encouraged to produce the play after his rival Voltaire's...

Mariamne I (d. 29 BCE), also called Mariamne the Hasmonean, was a Hasmonean princess and the second wife of Herod the Great. Her parents, Alexandra Maccabeus...

gave it a critical reception. This failure encouraged Augustin Nadal to produce his Mariamne in February 1725, but that was also hostilely received, with...

ancient Rome, the Abbé Nadal composed five tragedies: Saül (1705), Hérode (1709), Antiochus, ou les Machabées (1722), Mariamne (1725) and Osarphis, all...

socialite Mariamne Johnes (1784-1811), daughter of Thomas Johnes, Hafod, Wales Voltaire's play Mariamne and Augustin Nadal's rival play Mariamne. A 1723...

Burlini (libr.) Mariamne (1723), a French drama by Elijah Fenton Herod features in two 18th century French plays on Mariamne, by Nadal and Voltaire. Herodes...

Castro in the play of the same title by Houdar de La Motte (1723) Salomé in Voltaire's Mariamne (1724) Mariamne in Mariamne by Abbé Nadal (1725) Jocasta...

numerous variants, such as Mariami (Georgian) Mariamma, biblical Mariamme, Mariamne Məryəm (Azerbaijani) Meryem (Kurdish, Turkish) Myriam (French) The spelling...

Pleasure and Pain by Benjamin Franklin; Fantomina by Eliza Haywood; Mariamne by Augustin Nadal 1726 in literature – Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels 1727 in...