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The Interlude of the Student and the Girl (Latin: Interludium de clerico et puella) is one of the earliest known secular plays in English, first performed c. 1300. [1] The text is written in vernacular English, in an East Midlands dialect that suggests either Lincoln or Beverley as its origin, although its title is given in Latin. [2]
It should not be used for full-length plays that have no act divisions. Pages in category "One-act plays" The following 139 pages are in this category, out of 139 total.
S. The Same Sky (play) Samuel Weller, or, The Pickwickians; Scenes from an Execution; See How They Run (play) Sertorius (Bancroft play) The Seven Sacraments of Nicolas Poussin
One act plays make up the overwhelming majority of fringe theatre shows including at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The origin of the one-act play may be traced to the very beginning of recorded Western drama : in ancient Greece , Cyclops , a satyr play by Euripides , is an early example.
In 1949, a national readers theater tour by the First Drama Quartet—Charles Laughton, Agnes Moorehead, Charles Boyer, and Cedric Hardwicke [3] —appeared in 35 states, putting on 500 performances. Their presentation of Don Juan in Hell was seen by more than a half-million people. Columbia Masterworks recorded a performance, which was later ...
English Title — The title of the English text, as it appears in the particular translation. Because one Spanish title may suggest alternate English titles (e.g. Life is a Dream , Life's a Dream , Such Stuff as Dreams are Made Of ), sorting by this column is not a reliable way to group all translations of a particular original together; to do ...
Besides the Middle English drama, there are three surviving plays in Cornish known as the Ordinalia. These biblical plays differ widely in content. Most contain episodes such as the Fall of Lucifer , the Creation and Fall of Man , Cain and Abel , Noah and the Flood , Abraham and Isaac , the Nativity , the Raising of Lazarus , the Passion , and ...
Two plays from the original cycle are extant having been copied from the now lost original manuscript in the early 19th century. [1] Another, separate manuscript (BL MS Cotton Vespasian D.8) was initially titled the Ludus Coventriae [ 2 ] by a 17th-century librarian who erroneously assumed it was a copy of the Coventry mystery plays.