Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Abraham: A Play
The authoress of this play, Roswitha, was born of noble family about the year 935. She entered the Benedictine nun nery of Gandersheim in Saxony, and there composed several narrative poems on religious subjects, an epic celebrating the deeds of Otto the Great, and six dramas after the model of Terence all in Latin. There is no evidence that any of them were ever acted.
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