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Aristotle's assertion that in Greek tragedy there is no loftier work than Oedipus the King cannot be lightly contradicted....

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

The Broadway Rapture is of historical fights for capital superiority....

In the early 1870s Henry Clay Frick, bred in the coal-lands of western Pennsylvania, foresaw the importance of coke in the Bessemer or Kelly process of steel-making....

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

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

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

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

This play is one of the Gouldium, a series of dramas on the life and times of Jay Gould....

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....

Jay Gould, though consumption has first come forth into his lungs, purchases the sovereign share of Union Pacific....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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

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

Holding the Presidency of Erie Railway, Jay Gould fought against an insurgent board of directors that sought his dismissal....

In San Francisco, the new Bank of California would branch itself in Virginia City, Nevada, a mining town situated on a mountain side over the Comstock Lode of silver....

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