Mariamne in The Arts
From the Renaissance to contemporary times, there has been a long tradition of works of art (dramas, operas, novels, etc.) devoted to Mariamne and her relationship with Herod the Great. The list includes:
- Marianna (1565), an Italian drama by Lodovico Dolce
- The Tragedy of Mariam, the Faire Queene of Jewry (1613) an English drama by Elizabeth Tanfield Cary
- Herod and Antipater, with the Death of Faire Mariam (1622), an English drama by Gervase Markham and William Sampson
- Mariamne (1636), a French drama by François Tristan l'Hermite
- La mort des enfants d’Hérode; ou, Suite de Mariamne (1639), a French drama by Gathier de Costes de la Calprenède
- Herod and Mariamne (1673), an English drama by Samuel Pordage
- La Mariamne (1696), an Italian opera by Giovanni Maria Ruggeri (mus.) and Lorenzo Burlini (libr.)
- Mariamne (1723), a English drama by Elijah Fenton
- Mariamne (1723), a French drama by Voltaire
- Mariamne (1725), a French drama by Augustin Nadal
- La Marianna (1785), an Italian ballet by Giuseppe Banti (chor.)
- Marianne (1796), a French opera by Nicolas Dalayrac (mus.) and Benoît-Joseph Marsollier (libr.)
- Herod’s Lament for Mariamne (1815), an English song by Isaac Nathan (mus.) and George Byron (libr.)
- Erode; ossia, Marianna (1825), Italian opera by Saverio Mercadante (mus.) and Luigi Ricciuti (libr.)
- Herodes und Mariamne (1850), a German drama by Christian Friedrich Hebbel
- Mariamne Leaving the Judgment Seat of Herod (1887), a painting by John William Waterhouse
- Herod and Mariamne (1888), an English poem by Amelie Rives
- Myriam ha-Hashmonayith (1891), a Yiddish drama by Moses Seiffert
- Tsar Irod I tsaritsa Mariamna (1893), a Russian drama by Dmitri Alexandrov
- Mariamne (1911), an English poem by Thomas Sturge Moore
- Herodes und Mariamne (1922), incidental music by Karol Rathaus
- Lied der Mariamne (ohne Worte) (1927), incidental music by Mikhail Gnesin
- Hordos u-Miryam (1935), a Hebrew novel by Aaron Orinowsky
- Herod and Mariamne (1938), an English drama by Clemence Dane
- Mariamne (1967), a Swedish novel by Pär Lagerkvist
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