Play on Words

full length · drama

The Prince of Parthia: A Tragedy

by Thomas Godfrey

10 roles (0M / 0F / 10 any) · approx 69–95 minutes · 5 acts

Royalty-free Public domain — free to read, perform, and adapt. No licence needed.

Characters

Arsaces lead 82 speeches
King lead 49 speeches
Vardanes supporting 39 speeches
Queen supporting 33 speeches
Evanthe supporting 31 speeches
Bethas supporting 22 speeches
Lysias supporting 15 speeches
Gotarzes minor 12 speeches
Barzaphernes minor 10 speeches
Cleone minor 3 speeches

Read the play

EVANTHE [_alone_].

Ah!--what a cruel torment is suspense! My anxious soul is torn 'twixt love and fear, Scarce can I please me with one fancied bliss Which kind imagination forms, but reason, Proud, surly reason, snatches the vain joy, And gives me up again to sad distress. Yet I can die, and should Arsaces fall This fatal draught shall ease me of my sorrows.

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