The King's Messenger - 1908 was released on: USA: 29 April 1908
The King's Messenger - 1913 was released on: USA: 30 May 1913
Yes....Nightingales would sometimes be used as messenger birds for the king/"emperor" of CHINA
Centuries ago, during the Middle Ages, when a messenger would be sent to deliver a message to the king or queen, they would be killed if the king or queen did not like the message, usually by beheading. Hence the phrase, "Don't kill the messenger".
The Theban king, Creon.
The cast of The Grim Messenger - 1915 includes: Joe King as Jules Edna Maison as Edna
as a child the messager mollested leonidas
The messenger from Corinth arrives to Thebes to tell Oedipus that Oedipus' father Polybus is dead. And the people of Corinth wish Oedipus to be their new king. The messenger reveals to Oedipus that Polybus and Merope are not his real parents. He also reveals that the Shepherd gave him a baby as a gift to the King and Queen of Corinth.
Employees of the respectively royal houses of Corinth and Thebes are the identities of the messenger in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, the first messenger to appear is the Corinthian messenger. He informs Theban monarchs Oedipus and Jocasta of the death of Corinthian King Polybus and of the consequent royal job opening in Corinth. He subsequently is followed by the messenger of Thebes' own royal house. He announces that Queen Jocasta is dead and that King Oedipus is blind.
The messenger played the roll of a freemen. He would seacretly deliver messages to the King and Queen.Thats the roll they played in MEDIEVAL TIMES.
Ross. He has the role of messenger throughout the play.
Oedipus was given to the messenger by a shepherd. The shepherd had found the baby on Mount Cithaeron, where he was abandoned by his biological parents, King Laius and Queen Jocasta of Thebes, due to a prophecy that he would kill his father and marry his mother. The messenger then took Oedipus to the royal family in Corinth, where he was raised by King Polybus and Queen Merope.