Category: Romance
The present play is an original comedy, of which certain elements in the plot have been suggested by the old Persian tale which is the theme of the eighteenth century Italian comedy “Turandotte,” by Carlo Gozzi, translated into German by Friedrich Schiller.
[_Hardly have they disappeared, when Calaf enters hastily, looking about him with a startled expression. He is dressed in princely regalia, and his face is shaved. Seeing Capo.,...
2. ACT IV._Above the gate, in a row, severed heads of young men are impaled on stakes. On the wall, at one side, more heads of older men, with grizzled locks, stare down: among them, cons...
5. SCENE II: _A bedchamber, mysteriously lighted. The room is vast andIf she should guess!—If she should fail to guess! If she should fail to guess!—If she should guess! O endless, awful night, you are like thought— Hollow, unanswering and full of...
1. ACT IVThe present play is an original comedy, of which certain elements in the plot have been suggested by the old Persian tale which is the theme of the eighteenth century Italian co...
3. SCENE I: _A Room in the HaremAre not gold and gorgeousness For joy? To-morrow ends my year and a day. Then no more suitors—no more severed heads! I shall be free then—free to search for him Through all the...