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The Two Noble Kinsmen

William Shakespeare

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Table of contents
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Note
  • Dramatis Personæ
  • Prologue
  • Contents
  • Act I
  • Scene I. Athens. Before a Temple
  • Scene II. Thebes. The Court of the Palace
  • Scene III. Before the Gates of Athens
  • Scene IV. A Field before Thebes. Dead bodies lying on the ground; among them Palamon and Arcite
  • Scene V. Another Part of the Field, More Remote from Thebes
  • Act II
  • Scene I. Athens. A Garden, with a Castle in the Background
  • Scene II. A Room in the Prison
  • Scene III. The Country Near Athens
  • Scene IV. Athens. A Room in the Prison
  • Scene V. An Open Place in Athens. A Short Flourish of Cornets, and Shouts Within
  • Scene VI. Athens. Before the Prison
  • Act III
  • Scene I. A Forest near Athens. Cornets in sundry places: noise and hallooing as of People a-Maying
  • Scene II. Another Part of the Forest
  • Scene III. The Same Part of the Forest as in Scene I
  • Scene IV. Another Part of the Forest
  • Scene V. Another Part of the Forest
  • Scene VI. The Same Part of the Forest as in Scene III
  • Act IV
  • Scene I. Athens. A Room in the Prison
  • Scene II. Athens. An Apartment in the Palace
  • Scene III. Athens. A Room in the Prison
  • Act V
  • Scene I. Athens. A Court Before the Temples of Mars, Venus, and Diana
  • Scene II. Athens. A Room in the Prison
  • Scene III. A Part of the Forest Near Athens, and Near the Place Appointed for the Combat
  • Scene IV. The Same Part of the Forest as in Act III, Scene VI
  • Epilogue
Book details
  • Vendor Dover Publications
  • SKU 9780486790145
  • ISBN-13 9780486790145
  • Author William Shakespeare
  • Category Literary Criticism
  • Subject Shakespeare

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The king of Thebes is a tyrant but his young relatives, Palamon and Arcite, defend him anyway. The two noble kinsmen find their loyalty rewarded with imprisonment when they end up on the losing side of a battle with the great hero, Theseus of Athens. From the window of their jail they observe Emilia, the sister-in-law of their conqueror, whose stunning beauty shatters their vow of eternal brotherhood. Now the former friends must find a way to evade their captors and pursue the alluring princess, an undertaking that will conclude with a fight to the death. First published in 1634, this Jacobean tragicomedy features a plot derived from "The Knight's Tale" in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. The play was originally attributed to both John Fletcher and William Shakespeare; its association with the latter is a longstanding source of controversy that is now generally accepted by scholarly consensus.