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THE TREASON & DEATH OF BENEDICT ARNOLD A PLAY FOR A GREEK THEATRE BY JOHN JAY CHAPMAN

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...C~oaus OF CLOUDS (Women). CHORUS-LEADER OF MEN. CHORUS-LEADER OF WOMEN. TREASON. DEATH. Two PICEETS. A SEBVANT. SCENE ACT I. THE SHORE OF THE ... ...LD IN ENGLAND IN 1801. The Ads are Separated by a Short Vocal I~~zzo. TREASON AND DEATH OF BENEDICT ARNOLD ACT I The margin of the Hu&son at W... ...ens, but to appear rather aa a part of the scenevy and decoration. [71 TREASON AND DEATH First Picket. Uneasy has been my watch. Dark have been ... ...the sea - Attend your Father Hudson, the Ageless, the Majestic! [ 9 I TREASON AND DEATH OF BENEDICT ARNOLD Calling to you, his sons and daughter... ...g you Grief. Both Choruses. Haste to where our father dwells ! E 11 1 TREASON AND DEATH OF BENEDICT ARNOLD We the movers, we the rovers, Come t... ...spared thou art a child. I Leader of Men. When thy hills shall [ 13 I TREASON AND DEATH OF BENEDICT ARNOLD have been steeped for a thousand year... ...n known, And he will praise me for it. Civil war Knows no such thing as treason; change of sides, The victory of reason in the heart, Makes Loya... ...fret the gallant Irishman To think what uniform was on his back [ 15 I TREASON AND DEATH When he so died? What if in that assault I had died to... ... NO, no revenge! but justice, Nothing but justice - I'll have justice! TREASON AND DEATH Both Choruses. Foolish is the man who thinks upon his w...

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...ho outgunned the nationalist forces. The Queen was arrested and brought before a military tribunal. The Republic found her guilty of “misprision of treason” (branding her a traitor) and fined her $5,000 and five years of hard labor (Liliuokalani 1990 [1898]:289). Instead of hard labor though, they decided to imprison her in a corner room of Iolani Palace for eight month...

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...400's, a time of knighthood and chivalry. Myles Falworth is eight years old when news comes they must flee their home. His blind father is accused of treason. We see Myles grow up, train as a knight, and with perseverance, clear his father of any wrong-doing and restore their family name. (Summary by Laura Caldwell)...

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...g to use its massive arsenal in the struggle to forcibly end slavery. Captured and brought to trial at nearby Charles Town, Brown was found guilty of treason. One month before his execution, John Brown addressed a courtroom in Charlestown, West Virginia, defending his role in the action at Harper's Ferry. Henry David Thoreau, although himself did not favor violence, praise...

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...venture novel by Rafael Sabatini, originally published in 1922. It concerns the sharp-witted Dr. Peter Blood, an Irish physician, who is convicted of treason in the aftermath of the Monmouth rebellion in 1685, and enslaved on the Caribbean island of Barbados. He escapes and becomes a pirate. [wikipedia] Captain Blood was the basis for the Academy Award-nominated swashbuckl...

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...ournaments and jousts and deeds of arms, both for life and death, he passed all other knights, and at no time he was never overcome but if it were by treason or enchantment; so Sir Launcelot increased so marvellously in worship, and in honour, therefore is he the first knight that the French book maketh mention of after King Arthur came from Rome....

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... all other knights, and at no time he was never overcome but if it were by treason or en- chantment; so Sir Launcelot increased so marvellously in wor... ...ound. That me repenteth, said Launcelot, of your hurt, but I was adread of treason, for I was late be- guiled, and therefore come on your way into you... ...unto thee, said Sir Launcelot, thou an armed knight to slay a naked man by treason. Thou gettest none other grace, said Sir Phelot, and therefore help... ...er, said Sir Launcelot, for with falsehood ye would have had slain me with treason, and now it is fallen on you both. And then she swooned as though s... ...en of arms after us riding. And so Sir Launcelot turned him and thought no treason, and therewith was the knight and the lady on one side, and suddenl...

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...athing epigrams against him. Claudius, by comparison, has executed 40 Senators for treason. Nero even helped the Jews - a scourge of the Roman empi... ...ld. Fathers were even allowed to execute their grown sons for serious offenses like treason. Each house maintained a cult of ancestors and hearth go...

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...prevalent in his day, but was condemned by the wisest, that it was classed with treason and poisoning. And it is notorious that magic was long used a...

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...your vulnerability. I gravely radiate my utter guarantee of splendid outcomes. No hint of treason here. Concurrently I am plotting your emotional ... ... as an adult. Then it was time to return. My father, aware of my encounter, regarded it as treason, another broken link in the crumbling chain of h...

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...ore.’ ‘My God, how did they execute him?’ asked Gavin. ‘By impalement, the Moghul punishment for treason. I fear that it has driven the little prin... ... telegram from Calcutta informed the Resident that both prisoners had been tried, found guilty of treason and executed by firing squad. ‘They receiv...

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...laws of men, he is Antichrist, he does violence to nature, and is guilty of treason against the Divine Majesty, because this word stands: “What God h...

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...im, “You will bear the shame you have brought on your family as the charges of murder and treason are laid upon you and all your evil relations,” Al...

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...t is not against Christ the teacher, but Christ the prophet, that I arrest thee of high treason. This quality of every word of God to be prophetic as... ...ss than impossible. I would wholly omit it with good will did I not fear to commit high treason against truth; which if any one know to be the gift o...

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... to Pilate the governor, (before whose tribunal he stood as one accused of high treason, falsely accused of having sought to make himself king, and r...

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...arding school find her somewhat priggish). She is suddenly confronted with the fact that her beloved grandfather is suspected of no less a crime than treason against the United States. With the help of old and new friends of Mary Louise … the truth is uncovered. The novel features a federal agent named John O'Gorman; he is assisted by his daughter Josie, a young woman he h...

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... Consolation of Philosophy was written during Boethius' one year imprisonment while awaiting trial, and eventual horrific execution, for the crime of treason by Ostrogothic King Theodoric the Great. Boethius was at the very heights of power in Rome and was brought down by treachery. It was from this experience he was inspired to write a philosophical book from prison refle...

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...tle to your Crowne. King. We thanke you both, yet one but flatters us, As well appeareth by the cause you come, Namely, to appeale each other of high treason. Coosin of Hereford, what dost thou object Against the Duke of Norfolke, Thomas Mowbray? Bul. First, heaven be the record to my speech, In the devotion of a subjects love, Tendering the precious safetie of my Prince, ...

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...reth by the cause you come, 32 Namely, to appeale each other of high treason. 33 Coosin of Hereford, what dost thou obiect 34 Agains... ... Which else would post, vntill it had return’d 62 These tearmes of treason, doubly downe his throat. 63 Setting aside his high bloods ro... ...erge 99 That euer was suruey’d by English eye, 100 That all the Treasons for these eighteene yeeres 101 Complotted, and contriued in t... ...490 As now our flesh is banish’d from this Land. 491 Confesse thy Treasons, ere thou flye this Realme, - 11 - The life and death of King Ric... ... Condition of the worst degree, 1220 In grosse Rebellion, and detested Treason: 1221 Thou art a banish’d man, and here art come 1222 Befor... ...nd darts his Lightning through eu’ry guiltie hole, 1400 Then Murthers, Treasons, and detested sinnes 1401 (The Cloake of Night being pluckt fr... ... Night, 1405 Shall see vs rising in our Throne, the East, 1406 His Treasons will sit blushing in his face, 1407 Not able to endure the sig... ...s, 1679 That euery stride he makes vpon my Land, 1680 Is dangerous Treason: He is come to ope 1681 The purple Testament of bleeding Warre;... ...North. Well haue you argu’d Sir: and for your paines, 2071 Of Capitall Treason we arrest you here. 2072 My Lord of Westminster, be it your cha...

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...ers, who take advantage of their naiveté to sell them into the czarist army. They are caught when they try to escape, and the army’s response to this treason is a delicious twist that leaves the reader wondering who exactly is insane – and where precisely the line is drawn between an absurdity and a worthwhile dream. (Summary by Omri Lernau)...

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...him, it was in his power to do worse than he did. For notwithstanding his treason, we lost neither man nor towne, except Fossan, which long after wa... ...owes: yet are they the true seeds or roots of cruelty, of tyranny, and of treason. In youth they bud, and afterward grow to strength, and come to pe... ...not so warrant him, but that afterward he fell into the snares of the like treason: so vaine and frivolous a thing is humane wisdome: and contrary to... ...y publish such advertisements as they receive of the plots conspired, and treasons practised against their lives and states, thereby to make men bele... ...se of wine, corne, or mettle. The very words that import lying, falshood, treason, dissimulations, covetousnes, envie, detraction, and pardon, were ... ...was never any opinion found so unnaturall and immodest, that would excuse treason, treacherie, disloyaltie, tyrannie, crueltie, and such like, which... ...us. The wisest men teach us sufficiently to beware and shield us from the treasons of our appetites, and to discerne true and perfect pleasures from... ...e deferred the reading of an advertisement which was delivered him of the treasons that were practised and complotted against that Citie where he co... ... paultry pelfe mony, vice is payed and sin requited, as flattery, murther, treason , Maquerelage, and what not? It is then no marvel, if vertue doth ...