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The Bloody Banquet [1] is an early 17th-century play, a revenge tragedy of uncertain date and authorship, attributed on its title page only to "T.D." It has attracted a substantial body of critical and scholarly commentary, chiefly for the challenging authorship problem it presents.
Chikamatsu's popularity peaked with his domestic plays of love-suicides, and with the blockbuster success of The Battles of Coxinga in 1715, but thereafter the tastes of patrons turned to more sensational gore fests and otherwise more crude antics; Chikamatsu's plays would fall into disuse, so even the actual music would be lost for many plays.
He left a number of plays full of extravagant imagination. The best known are L'Adamo (Milan, 1613), The Penitent Magdalene (Mantua, 1617), and The Centaur (Paris, 1622). From the first of these three volumes, which are extremely rare, Italians have often asserted that Milton, travelling at that time in their country, took the idea of Paradise Lost.
A Bond Honoured: A Play (from Lope De Vega) reprinted in Lope de Vega: Plays Two ISBN 978-1840021806: Auto sacramental de la circuncisión y sangría de Cristo nuestro bien: For our sake: 1969 Barnes, R[ichard] G. In Three Spanish sacramental plays: For our sake OCLC 655189012: 1-act religious play Fuente Ovejuna: Fuente Ovejuna: 1969 Colford ...
Egerton MS 1994 is a manuscript collection of English Renaissance plays, now in the Egerton Collection of the British Library.Probably prepared by the actor William Cartwright around 1642, and later presented by him to Dulwich College, the collection contains unique copies of several Elizabethan, Jacobean, and Caroline dramas, including significant works like Edmund Ironside and Thomas of ...
The 1647 folio was published by the booksellers Humphrey Moseley and Humphrey Robinson.It was modelled on the precedents of the first two folio collections of Shakespeare's plays, published in 1623 and 1632, and the first two folios of the works of Ben Jonson of 1616 and 1640–1.