Herod: A Tragedy
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- First published
- 1884
- Pages
- 126
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Herod: A Tragedy appeared in 1884 from Henry Iliowizi (1850-1911), a Russian-born rabbi then serving a Minneapolis congregation; the five-act drama was issued locally by the Tribune Book Rooms. Its subject is Herod the Great, the king of Judea whose political cunning and family murders made him a natural figure for tragedy, and the play predates Stephen Phillips's better-known 1900 verse drama of the same name by sixteen years. Iliowizi returned to biblical theatre repeatedly, following this work with Joseph in 1885 and Saul in 1894, part of a small body of American Jewish writing produced between pulpit duties. Surviving print copies are scarce, so the digitized text is now the practical way to read it.
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Book facts
- Author
- Henry Iliowizi
- First published
- 1884
- Reading time
- About 2 hours
- Pages
- 126
- Language
- English
- Genre
- History
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- PDF, EPUB, MOBI, Read online