Mary Magdalene: A Play in Three Acts by Maurice Maeterlinck

"Mary Magdalene: A Play in Three Acts" by Maurice Maeterlinck is a tragic play written in 1910. Based on the Biblical story, the play follows Mary Magdalene, a courtesan who undergoes spiritual transformation through her encounter with Jesus. When Roman General Lucius Verus demands she surrender herself in exchange for saving Jesus from crucifixion, Mary faces an impossible choice that tests her newfound faith while those around her shrink from action in cowardice. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Maeterlinck, Maurice, 1862-1949
Translator Teixeira de Mattos, Alexander, 1865-1921
LoC No. 10020397
Uniform Title Marie-Magdeleine. English
Title Mary Magdalene: A Play in Three Acts
Original Publication United States: Dodd, Mead and Company,1910.
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Magdalene_(play)
Credits Mark C. Orton and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Reading Level Reading ease score: 83.8 (6th grade). Easy to read.
Language English
LoC Class PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Subject Mary Magdalene, Saint -- Drama
Category Text
eBook-No. 67806
Release Date
Last Update Oct 18, 2024
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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