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41The Devil's Law Case — is a Jacobean era stage play, a tragicomedy written by John Webster, and first published in 1623.DateThe play s date of authorship and early performance history is unknown. The events upon which the play is based occurred in 1610, so that the… …
42The Visit — is the title of various English translations of Friedrich Dürrenmatt s 1956 play Der Besuch der alten Dame (literally, The Visit of the Old Lady ). It is probably the best known of his works, at least in the English speaking world. It has become… …
43Play — may refer to: * Play (activity), enjoyment by humans * Play (animal behaviour) * Play (theatre), structured literary form or theatreIn music* Play 99.6 (radio), Jordan s No.1 Hit Music Radio Station * Play (Mexican band) (or Grupo Play ),… …
44The Rover (play) — The Rover or The Banish d Cavaliers is a play in two parts written by the English author Aphra Behn. It was a very popular Restoration comedy. Behn had famously worked as a spy for Charles II against the Dutch. However, Charles was slow to pay… …
45The Love-Girl and the Innocent — (also translated The Tenderfoot and the Tart ) is a play in four acts by Russian author Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. It is set over the course of about one week in 1945 in a Stalin era Soviet prison camp. As in many of Solzhenitsyn s works, the author …
46The Playboy of the Western World — is a three act play written by Irish playwright John Millington Synge and first performed at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, on January 26, 1907.[1] It is set in Michael James Flaherty s public house in County Mayo (on the west coast of Ireland)… …
47The Witch of Edmonton — is an English Jacobean play, written by William Rowley, Thomas Dekker and John Ford in 1621. The play mdash; probably the most sophisticated treatment of domestic tragedy in the whole of Elizabethan Jacobean drama [Logan and Smith, p. 15.]… …
48The Battle of Alcazar — is a play by George Peele, probably written and first staged in the late 1580s, published in 1594.Likely allusions to the Spanish Armada in the play appear to limit its earliest possible date. The primary historical source for the play, John… …
49The Court Beggar — is a Caroline era stage play written by Richard Brome. It was most likely premiered in 1638, by the acting company known as Beeston s Boys at the Cockpit Theatre. The play is a satire of various aspects of the court of King Charles I. This satire …
50The Roman Actor — is a Caroline era stage play, a tragedy written by Philip Massinger; it was first performed in 1626, and first published in 1629. A number of critics have agreed with its author, and judged it one of Massinger s best plays. [Logan and Smith, pp.… …
