Politian (1835) is the only play known to have been written by Edgar Allan Poe composed in 1835 but never completed.The play is a fictionalized version of a true event in Kentucky: the murder of Solomon P. Sharp by Jereboam O. Beauchamp in 1825. The so-called Kentucky Tragedy became a national headline and attracted several fictional representations. Poe however chose to set his version in 16th century Rome.
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