Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois by George Chapman

"Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois" by George Chapman is a pair of Jacobean tragedies written in the early 1600s. The first play dramatizes the rise and fall of the ambitious Bussy, while its 1613 sequel follows his brother Clermont, a Christian Stoic caught between loyalty and vengeance. When Clermont is urged to punish his brother's killer, he must reconcile his philosophical principles with demands for revenge, leading to confrontations that test honor, duty, and conscience in a treacherous French court. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Chapman, George, 1559?-1634
Editor Boas, Frederick S. (Frederick Samuel), 1862-1957
LoC No. 05013526
Title Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Revenge_of_Bussy_D%27Ambois
Credits Produced by Melissa Er-Raqabi, Ted Garvin, Lisa Reigel,
Michael Zeug, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team
at www.pgdp.net
Reading Level Reading ease score: 78.5 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PR: Language and Literatures: English literature
Subject Tragedies (Drama)
Subject Revenge -- Drama
Subject English drama -- 17th century
Subject Bussy d'Amboise, 1549?-1579 -- Drama
Category Text
eBook-No. 20890
Release Date
Last Update Mar 16, 2013
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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