Romulus the Great
by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
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Shows the demise of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century - taking place during the day of (and the day following) the Ides of March, 476. The ruin of the Empire is calmly expected by the Emperor Romulus Augustulus.Tags
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Roma, V sec. d.C. L'Impero romano è allo sfascio. Romolo Augusto sembra disgustato dai fasti del passato, sembra quasi compiacersi della marcia
trionfale che accompagna la calata dei germani verso Roma, sotto la guida di Odoacre. Nelle casse imperiali non c'è un centesimo. Romolo non
sembra curarsene. Se ne sta alla larga da Roma, e si dedica serenamente, nel proprio podere, all'allevamento dei polli. Invano, il ricchissimo
Cesare Rupf, eccelso fabbricante di calzoni, offre a Romolo un'occasione d'oro per salvare l'Impero: propone milioni di sesterzi e sloggio immediato
dei barbari in cambio di Rea figlia dell'imperatore - e di una salvifica "fusione" fra impero romano e Superditta Cesare Rupf. Romolo, incredibilmente, rifiuta.
trionfale che accompagna la calata dei germani verso Roma, sotto la guida di Odoacre. Nelle casse imperiali non c'è un centesimo. Romolo non
sembra curarsene. Se ne sta alla larga da Roma, e si dedica serenamente, nel proprio podere, all'allevamento dei polli. Invano, il ricchissimo
Cesare Rupf, eccelso fabbricante di calzoni, offre a Romolo un'occasione d'oro per salvare l'Impero: propone milioni di sesterzi e sloggio immediato
dei barbari in cambio di Rea figlia dell'imperatore - e di una salvifica "fusione" fra impero romano e Superditta Cesare Rupf. Romolo, incredibilmente, rifiuta.
May 4, 2010Italian
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Durrenmatt was born near Bern, Switzerland, the son of a Protestant clergyman. He studied philosophy and theology and originally planned to become a painter. "All of a sudden," he has said, "I began to write, and I just had no time to finish my University degree." He has called his first play, It Is Written (1947), "a wild story of Anabaptists show more during the Reformation." When it was first produced in Zurich, it caused a minor theatrical scandal because of its somewhat unorthodox sentiments. The Marriage of Mr. Mississippi, his first successful comedy, was produced in Munich in 1952 and, as adapted by Maximillian Slater with the title Fools are Passing Through, had a brief off-Broadway production in 1958. With this play he became established as one of the most popular European dramatists writing in German. His seventh play, The Visit (1956), which starred Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne on Broadway, received the N.Y. Drama Critics Circle Award in 1959. Brooks Atkinson called it "devastating. A bold, grisly drama of negativism and genius." (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- Romulus the Great
- Original title
- Romulus der Große
- Original publication date
- 1958
- People/Characters
- Romulus; Julia; Tullius Rotundus; Emilian; Achilles; Spurius Titus Mamma (show all 9); Caesar Rupf; Pyramus; Mars
- Important places
- Rome, Italy
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- Paper, Ebook
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