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51The 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.]… …
52The 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… …
53The 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 …
54The 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.… …
55The Maid's Metamorphosis — is a late Elizabethan stage play, a pastoral first published in 1600. The play, a comedy of considerable merit, [Schelling, Vol. 1, p. 151.] was published anonymously, and its authorship has been a long standing point of dispute among… …
56The Staple of News — is an early Caroline era play, a satire by Ben Jonson. The play was first performed in late 1625 by the King s Men at the Blackfriars Theatre, and first published in 1631. [James Loxley, The Complete Critical Guide to Ben Jonson, London,… …
57The Court Secret — is a Caroline era stage play, a tragicomedy written by James Shirley, and first published in 1653. It is generally regarded as the final play Shirley wrote as a professional dramatist.Though The Court Secret can seem, to a modern taste, a… …
58The Old Tune — is a free translation of Robert Pinget’s 1960 play La Manivelle ( The Crank ) in which Samuel Beckett transformed Pinget’s Parisians, Toupin and Pommard into Dubliners, Cream and Gorman. Its first radio broadcast was by the BBC on 23rd August… …
59The Fair Maid of the Inn — is an early 17th century stage play, a comedy in the canon of John Fletcher and his collaborators. It was originally published in the first Beaumont and Fletcher folio of 1647. Uncertainties of the play s date, authorship, and sources make it one …
60The Honest Man's Fortune — [The title of this play resembles the subtitle of Cyril Tourneur s The Atheist s Tragedy, or The Honest Man s Revenge. ] is a Jacobean era stage play, a tragicomedy written by Nathan Field, John Fletcher, and Philip Massinger. It was apparently… …
