Online adoptions 2013: Printed books-Folger Shakespeare Library

Online adoptions 2013: Printed books

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The Devil comes to Dinner Tragédie nouuelle de la perfidie d’Aman, mignon et favoris du Roy Assuerus. Paris, 1622 Adopt for: $4,000 Tragédie nouvelle de la perfidie d’Aman, mignon et favoris du Roy Assuerus… Paris: Chez la veufue Ducarroy, [1622]. This little play – really more comic than tragic – was designed to be performed at Purim, the feast celebrating Esther’s rescue of the Jews in Persia. In one of the added comic scenes, a devil comes to eat at Haman’s house because of insufficient food in Hell. The whole play is more secular than religious, depicting Haman as a victim of Fortune rather than God’s punishment. It was printed in the shop of a woman, the Widow Ducarroy.				More Printed books Tribute to Louis XIV Neither vain nor frothy wit See all items in this category »

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