Curated category
Fiction about regicide
- MacbethWilliam Shakespeare wrote The Tragedy of Macbeth using material from Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles, published in 1587. This history book covered England…
- HamletThe Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark emerged from a deep well of ancient legends and medieval texts. Scholars point to the 13th-century Life of Amleth by…
- Captain America: Civil WarIn 1991, a brainwashed super-soldier named James Barnes intercepted an automobile carrying a case of super-soldier serum in Siberia.
- Tales from Earthsea (film)In 1985, Ursula K. Le Guin received a call from Hayao Miyazaki through the bookseller Iwanami Shoten. She turned him down because she had not seen his films…
- Game of ThronesIn the frozen north beyond a massive stone wall, a young boy named Benjen Stark stands guard with his brothers of the Night's Watch.
- Final Fantasy XVIIn the fictional world of Valisthea, two continents named Ash and Storm stretch across a landscape dominated by colossal magical crystals.
- Oedipus RexScholars debate the exact year Sophocles first staged Oedipus Rex, though some point to a devastating plague that struck Athens in 430 BC.
- Final Fantasy XVDevelopment began in 2006 as a PlayStation 3 spin-off titled Final Fantasy Versus XIII. Tetsuya Nomura served as the original director and character designer…