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31Hippolytus (play) — Infobox Play | name = Hippolytus caption = The Death of Hippolytus by Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema writer = Euripides chorus = Troezenian Women characters = Aphrodite Hippolytus Attendants Nurse Phaedra Theseus Messenger Artemis setting = Before the… …
32The Rivals — a play by Richard Brinsley Sheridan, is a comedy of manners in five acts. It was first performed on 17 January 1775. History The Rivals was Sheridan s second commercially produced play. At the time, he was a young newlywed living in Bath. At She …
33The Miser — L Avare is a 1668 five act satirical comedy by French playwright Molière. Its title is usually translated as The Miser when the play is performed in English.The play was first performed in 1668 at the Palais Royal in a period when Molière s… …
34Henry Arthur Jones — (* 20. September 1851 in Grandborough, Buckinghamshire; † 7. Januar 1929 in Hampstead) war ein englischer Dramatiker, der während des ausgehenden 19. und des beginnenden 20. Jahrhunderts schrieb …
35Hernani (drama) — See Hernani for other meanings of the word. Hernani (Full title: Hernani, ou l Honneur Castillan ) is a drama by the great French romantic author Victor Hugo. The play opened in Paris on February 25, 1830. Today, the drama is more remembered for… …
36Juno and the Paycock — is a play by Sean O Casey, the second of his well known Dublin Trilogy and one of the most highly regarded and oft performed plays in Ireland. It was first staged at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 1924. It is set in the working class tenements of …
37Adelphoe — also written Adelphoi and Adelphi (English: The brothers ) is a play by Terence, a Roman playwright. It was first performed in 160 BC at the funeral of Aemilius Paulus. Adelphoe aroused controversy since Terence added in it a scene from a play b …
38Jean Giraudoux — Hippolyte Jean Giraudoux (August 15, 1882 ndash; January 31, 1944) was a French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright. He is considered among the most important French dramatists of the period between World War I and World War II. [Brockett …
39Richard Brinsley Sheridan — (30 October 1751 ndash; 7 July 1816) was an Irish playwright and Whig statesman. Early life R.B. Sheridan was born in Dublin on 30 October 1751 at 12 Dorset Street, a fashionable street in the late eighteenth century. (Fellow playwright Seán O… …
40Catherine II and opera — Catherine II the Great (1729 1796), Empress of Russia was not only an opera fan, a patroness of the arts, music and theatre, but also an opera librettist. She commissioned some well known Russian and foreign composers to provide music for her… …
