''Nemesis'' is a tragedy in four acts written by Alfred Nobel, who founded the

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s. The play, which is in prose, was written shortly before his death in 1896 and printed while he was dying. Following Nobel's death the entire printed edition was destroyed, except for three copies. The first surviving edition (bilingual Swedish– Esperanto) was published in Sweden in 2003. It has been translated to Slovenian via the Esperanto version. Since 2005 it exists in Italian. In 2008 it was translated into French and

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and in 2010 it was published in a bilingual

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–Esperanto edition. The first, and so far the only, production was at the

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theatre in Stockholm in 2005."Nobel's raunchy anti-capitalist play gets world premiere"
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Beatrice Cenci Beatrice Cenci (; 6 February 157711 September 1599) was a Roman noblewoman who murdered her father, Count Francesco Cenci. She was beheaded in 1599 after a lurid murder trial in Rome that gave rise to an enduring legend about her. Life Beatri ...

, an Italian noblewoman, who was executed after a plot to murder her father in 1599.

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