The Odyssey
By Homer
Book 1
Tell me, O muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy. Many cities did he visit, and many were the nations with whose manners and customs he was acquainted; moreover he suffered much by sea while trying to save his own life and bring his men safely home; but do what he might he could not save his men, for they perished through their own sheer folly in eating the cattle of the Sun-god Hyperion; so the god prevented them from ever reaching home. Tell me, too, about all these things, O daughter of Jove, from whatsoever source you may know them.
So now all who escaped death in battle or by shipwreck had got safely home except Ulysses, and he, though he was longing to return to his wife and country, was detained by the goddess Calypso, who had got him into a large cave and wanted to marry him.
But as years went by, there came a time when the gods settled that he should go back to Ithaca; even then, however, when he was among his own people, his troubles were not yet over; nevertheless all the gods had now begun to pity him except Neptune, who still persecuted him without ceasing and would not let him get home.
(The opening 2 verse stanzas in the Samuel Butler translation ~ )
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Beside
Drama of
the English
Cyril Tourneur
The Revenger's Tragedy
Ben Jonson
Volpone or the Fox
John Marston
The Dutch Courtesan
George Chapman
Bussy D'Ambois
The Widow's Tears
Thomas Dekker Thomas Middleton
The Roaring Girl
Thomas Middleton
A Chaste Miad in Cheapside
John Webster
The White Devil
The Duchess of Malfi
Franics Beaumont
The Knight of the Moving Pestle
John Fletcher
The Wild-Goose Chase
John Ford
Tis Pity She's a Whore
Phillip Massinger
A New Way to Pay Old Debts
James Shirley
Hyde Park
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These have been and many ~
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