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100 1 _aLeino, Eino,
_d1878-1926
245 1 0 _aNaamioita III-IV
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2026
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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337 _acomputer
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_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
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500 _aRelease date is 2026-04-08
508 _aTapio Riikonen
520 _a"Naamioita III-IV" by Eino Leino is a collection of plays written in the early 20th century. It combines moral-psychological tableaux with historical tragedy, moving from medieval remorse to classical intrigue. The pieces center on figures torn between love, honor, ambition, and spiritual reckoning, including a ruined knight and the exiled Athenian statesman Alkibiades. The opening of this collection sets two striking scenes. In Ritari Klaus, a disgraced knight living in a desolate hut rebuffs Inkeri’s adamant love: he catalogs his sins, warns her of ruin, and, when she returns his sword to rouse the old warrior, declares he now serves the Cross; she departs in scorn, leaving the sword as a silent judgment while he prays to the Virgin. In Alkibiades, Timandra fends off the drunken Marsyas, who bears a secret letter and a prince’s bauble she refuses; Alkibiades returns with Thrasybulos, and their tense dialogue balances loyalty, exile, and the allure of Asia amid Astarte’s festival. A cryptic royal message and the satrap’s announced visit sharpen the sense of peril, and as Act III begins the Persian party arrives, courtly pleasantries barely masking an impending duel of words and wills. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cHelsinki: Vihtori Kosonen, 1908
653 _aFinnish drama -- 20th century
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78395
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