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Semiramis and other plays

Olive Tilford Dargan · 1904 · Scanned text · Free in the US

63,394 words · about 4 h 26 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Free in the US: this text is in the public domain in the United States; it may still be in copyright elsewhere.

Licence: PD · Library of Congress states the book is in the public domain and free to use and reuse (https://data.labs.loc.gov/digitized-books/README.html); published 1904, public domain asserted for the US only · Library of Congress, Selected Digitized Books (https://www.loc.gov/item/04029674); text via the Common Pile (CC BY 4.0 compilation, per-document rights preserved)

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Author
Olive Tilford Dargan
Language
English
Published
1904
Length
63,394 words · about 4 h 26 min
Sections
17 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights
Public domain in the United States

 

Contents (17)
  1. Contents under 1 min
  2. Act IV under 1 min
  3. Act I about 22 min
  4. Act II about 18 min
  5. Act III about 17 min
  6. Act IV about 10 min
  7. Act V about 1 min
  8. Act I about 22 min
  9. Act II about 23 min
  10. Act III about 19 min
  11. Act IV about 37 min
  12. Act III under 1 min
  13. Act I about 21 min
  14. Act II about 21 min
  15. Act III about 25 min
  16. Act IV about 18 min
  17. Act V about 11 min
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Act IV

Scene 1. The tent of Husak

CHARACTERS

Ninus, king of Assyria

Husak, king of Armenia

Khosrovb, son of Husak

Menones, governor of Nineveh

Artavan, son of Menones

Sumbat, friend of Artavan

Vassin, officer of the king

Haddo, a guard

Armin, a guard

Dokahra, woman to Semiramis

Sola, wife of Artavan

Semiramis, daughter of Menones

Officers, heralds, messengers, guards, soldiers, dancers, &c

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