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After Aeneas arrives in Carthage, Dido falls in love with him after Cupid’s intervention and rejects her suitor Iarbas. Aeneas’s duty to sail to Italy ends the affair; Dido kills herself, followed by Iarbas and Anna.
The scholar Faustus turns from conventional learning to necromancy and makes a pact with Lucifer through Mephistopheles, trading his soul for twenty-four years of power. He uses magic for spectacle and mischief, repeatedly considers repentance, but fails to turn back before the devils claim him at the end of the term.
Edward II recalls his favourite Piers Gaveston, provoking opposition from the nobles. After Gaveston is killed, Edward elevates the Spencers; Isabella and Mortimer overthrow him, imprison and murder him, but Edward III ultimately executes Mortimer and takes the throne.
As Faustus faces the end of his bargain, he and Mephistopheles appear as an intertwined pair. Their exchanges explore humanity’s obsession with power; Sly, a jester drawn from Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, introduces a contrasting voice.
In two parts, Tamburlaine rises from Scythian shepherd to conqueror, defeats rival rulers, and pursues further dominion as his sons inherit his ambition.
After Malta’s governor confiscates Jewish wealth to pay the Turks, merchant Barabas pursues revenge through deception and murder. His schemes shift between alliances with the Turks and Christians, until the former governor betrays him and he falls into his own trap.
Brecht’s free-verse adaptation recounts Edward II’s troubled reign and death, the rise and fall of his favourite Gaveston and of Roger Mortimer, and the disordered fate of Queen Isabella, against the backdrop of England in 1307–1326.
During the French Wars of Religion, the Duke of Guise helps orchestrate the massacre of Huguenots in Paris. Henry of Navarre escapes, later joins forces against the Catholic League, and becomes king after Henry III is assassinated.
After Aeneas arrives in Carthage, Dido falls in love with him after Cupid’s intervention and rejects her suitor Iarbas. Aeneas’s duty to sail to Italy ends the affair; Dido kills herself, followed by Iarbas and Anna.
The scholar Faustus turns from conventional learning to necromancy and makes a pact with Lucifer through Mephistopheles, trading his soul for twenty-four years of power. He uses magic for spectacle and mischief, repeatedly considers repentance, but fails to turn back before the devils claim him at the end of the term.
Edward II recalls his favourite Piers Gaveston, provoking opposition from the nobles. After Gaveston is killed, Edward elevates the Spencers; Isabella and Mortimer overthrow him, imprison and murder him, but Edward III ultimately executes Mortimer and takes the throne.
As Faustus faces the end of his bargain, he and Mephistopheles appear as an intertwined pair. Their exchanges explore humanity’s obsession with power; Sly, a jester drawn from Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew, introduces a contrasting voice.
In two parts, Tamburlaine rises from Scythian shepherd to conqueror, defeats rival rulers, and pursues further dominion as his sons inherit his ambition.
After Malta’s governor confiscates Jewish wealth to pay the Turks, merchant Barabas pursues revenge through deception and murder. His schemes shift between alliances with the Turks and Christians, until the former governor betrays him and he falls into his own trap.
Brecht’s free-verse adaptation recounts Edward II’s troubled reign and death, the rise and fall of his favourite Gaveston and of Roger Mortimer, and the disordered fate of Queen Isabella, against the backdrop of England in 1307–1326.
During the French Wars of Religion, the Duke of Guise helps orchestrate the massacre of Huguenots in Paris. Henry of Navarre escapes, later joins forces against the Catholic League, and becomes king after Henry III is assassinated.