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List of Calderón's plays in English translation; List of Canadian plays; List of Canadian plays (A–F) List of Canadian plays (G–O) List of Canadian plays (P–Z) Chronology of Shakespeare's plays
Anatomy of a Hit: Long-Run Plays on Broadway from 1900 to the Present Day. New York: Hawthorn Books, 1966. Schildcrout, Jordan. In the Long Run: A Cultural History of Broadway's Hit Plays. New York and London: Routledge, 2019. Sheward, David. It's a Hit!: The Back Stage Book of Longest-Running Broadway Shows, 1884 to the Present. New York: Back ...
Francis the First (play) Fredolfo; French history in the English-speaking theatre; The French Libertine; G. Don Pedro, King of Castile; Gisippus; Glencoe (play) H.
For Shakespeare, as he began to write, both traditions were alive; they were, moreover, filtered through the recent success of the University Wits on the London stage. By the late 16th century, the popularity of morality and academic plays waned as the English Renaissance took hold, and playwrights like Thomas Kyd and Christopher Marlowe revolutionised theatre.
The source for most of the English history plays, as well as for Macbeth and King Lear, is the well-known Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles of English history. The source for the Roman history plays is Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Compared Together, in the translation made by Sir Thomas North in 1579. Shakespeare's historical ...
This is a list of notable playwrights. See also Literature; Drama; List of playwrights by nationality and date of birth ; Lists of authors . This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness.
Abe Lincoln in Illinois (play) Abie's Irish Rose; Accent on Youth (play) Act One (play) The Adding Machine; Advise and Consent (play) The Affair (play) Affairs of State; After the Night and the Music; Agnes of God; Ah, Wilderness! Ain't No Mo' Airline Highway (play) Alfie (play) Alias Jimmy Valentine (play) Alison's House; All in Good Time ...
These four plays are argued to represent a phase of Shakespeare's career when he was experimenting with rhyming iambic pentameter as an alternative form to standard blank verse; Richard II has more rhymed verse than any other history play (19.1%), Romeo and Juliet more than any other tragedy (16.6%) and Love's Labour's and Midsummer Night more ...