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After his disobedient return from Ireland, the Earl of Essex was kept in house arrest, first in York House, then in his own palace, Essex House....

In diverse financial scrimmages, Jay Gould and his adversaries fought to survive and prosper in the difficult markets of the early 1880s....

In 1580, the new Lord Deputy of Ireland, Lord Arthur Grey de Wilton, came to Dublin with 3000 troops to end the Desmond Rebellion....

James Burbage, the founder of the Lord Chamberlain's Men, Shakespeare's acting company, is countered by Lady Elizabeth Russell when he constructs a theatre....

The earls of Essex and Southampton are tried together for high treason before a jury of the noblest peers....

Rodrigo Lopez, former physician to Queen Elizabeth, and his supposed accessories are questioned in the Tower on the charge of treason....

Cato, the enemy of Caesar, escaped with other Roman senators and remnant legions from the battle of Pharsalus to the Libyan coast, where again Caesar defeated them....

Rodrigo Lopez gave offense to the Earl of Essex by revealing his ailments at a feast to both Don Antonio, the deposed king of Portugal, and Antonio Perez....

This historical drama maintains the classical form of tragedy in English, with seven scenes of dialogue and seven choral performances....

This drama is part of the Gouldium, a series of plays on the life and times of Jay Gould....

Jay Gould returns to Colorado in a second attempt to combine the Kansas Pacific Railroad and her extensions with the Union Pacific....

There is no drama where the total multiplicity of horror in defeat is more cogently presented than in The Persians by Aeschylus....

The longer that Jay Gould was chief shareholder of Union Pacific, the more advancements for the railroad and for his own system of roads he procured....

The drama is framed like a Sophoclean tragedy, with seven scenes of dialogue and seven choral episodes of New York reporters....

Proficere in Latin means to go forward, and in pursuit of profit to the fore Fred Light goes with 1117 couplets as rhythmic as the prosperous esprit of commerce and finance....

1476 couplets contrast the outsiders of the state with the insiders of particular societies of American commerce....

On May 31, 1889, the South Fork Dam in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, under erosive overflows from eight inches of rain, dissolved, a flood unloosing on the narrow valley below, with Johnstown 14 miles down....

A passage of diverse heroics and distant perseverance in quest of the Golden Fleece is with transcendent narrative and canonic rhythm in the Argonautica recounted....

Jay Gould sought to yoke a corner on the gold market in August and September, 1869. His endeavor came to a head on September 24....

As the southernmost line in New York State, the Erie Railroad in the 1860s ran from Jersey City to Lake Erie....