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Orpheus and the Maenads A Traditional Play in Blank Verse The preternaturally great poet Orpheus has responded to the loss of his wife Eurydice to the Underworld by forsaking the society of his fellow men in Thrace, where he was a poet-king, and endlessly wandering through field and forest, using his poetic genius to lament his loss. Apollo, the god of poetry, urges him to give up his excessive mourning and return to Thrace and once more sing the deeds of the great heroes of Greece. He warns him that in the wild he inhabits there lurk the young god of wine Dionysus and his super-human followers the Maenads, who themselves eschew the ordinary society of men and give themselves to mad ecstasies brought on by wine and who would like nothing more than to recruit Orpheus to their number. Unwilling to give up his devotion to the memory of Eurydice, Orpheus rejects the Maenads and their Master with unmeasured words of scorn, sealing his own doom. Dionysus devises a fiendish plot of revenge that goes well beyond the ancient myth.

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"Praise for previously published works: The Tragedy of King Lewis the Sixteenth ""Acquire this work. Read it well. Teach it to your children. Recite it aloud together with them as the play it was written to be. Use it in your home school as a tool for the rediscovery and preservation of noble diction and high themes in an age of appalling linguistic brutishness. This work belongs on your shelf of classics, somewhere near the works of Shakespeare, as a most unexpected and quite wonderful contemporary revival of a literary tradition that was buried along with Christendom itself. Mr. Lane has seemingly come out of nowhere with this immensely impressive achievement. We owe it to him, we owe it to our fellow Catholics, we owe it to the English language, to read, promote and make better known The Tragedy of King Lewis the Sixteenth."" -Christopher A. Ferrara, Esq. ""Mr. Lane's attempt to craft a truly beautiful work is both ennobling of his subject as complimentary as it is challenging to his reader. Mr. Lane's work is deeply and splendidly reactionary and written for the delight and edification of fellow reactionaries, but more importantly it is a tribute to a king, who, perhaps even more than the English Charles I, is a symbol of the death of an old order."" -Jesse Russell, Ph.D. ""It is easy to become discouraged and disheartened by the current state of the arts. Appreciation of literature, art, and music in our day has almost become reduced to studying history. With the degeneration of every field of the arts on full display in what is oxymoronically referred to as modern culture, it is easy to conclude that no new art can be created in such a diseased society. Once and awhile something comes along to disprove this hypothesis (if only with an exception that proves a rule). David Lane's The Tragedy of King Lewis the Sixteenth is just such a work."" -Professor Brian McCall; Editor of The Catholic Family News. Dido: The Tragedy of a Woman ""David Lane's verse tragedy Dido subtly adapts the classic tale from Virgil to a postmodern clash of culture-a clash between civilized people who honor reason and Natural Law and a barbarous people who give license to passion and demand child sacrifice. This clash is occurring today both globally and within our own borders. I found the play very thought-provoking."" -Dr. Anne Barbeau Gardiner"

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