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Cain

By Lord Byron - Stage play

Stage playStageACT I, Scene 1

Roles

  • Lucifer - Male

About this piece

Lucifer curses God

Summary

This play is the dramatization of the legend of Cain and Abel. Cain refuses to follow his family's praise of God as he claims God has made him mortal and so he has nothing to thank him for. Cain is upset by his own mortality also because he doesn't know what death is. His mentor throughout the story is Lucifer, who appears in the first scene of the play. After discussing death and immortality, Lucifer mentions how he became what he is after failing to become a god. He laments that God won and know reigns as a tyrant...

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