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Plays written or first performed in the 1870s, i.e. in the years 1870 to 1879. Theatre portal; 1820s; 1830s; 1840s; 1850s; 1860s; ... This list may not reflect recent ...
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Frances Anne Kemble (27 November 1809 – 15 January 1893) was a British actress from a theatre family in the early and mid-nineteenth century. She was a well-known and popular writer and abolitionist whose published works included plays, poetry, eleven volumes of memoirs, travel writing, and works about the theatre.
When Gilbert wrote The Princess in 1870, women's higher education was still an innovative, even radical concept. Girton College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge, was established in 1869. However, by the time Gilbert and Sullivan collaborated on Princess Ida in 1883, a women's college was a more established concept.
1870s; 1880s; 1890s; 1900s; 1910s; 1920s; Subcategories. This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. P. 1870 plays (7 P) T. Theatres completed in ...
Katharine Hopkins Chapman (1870/72/73-1930, United States) Charlotte Charke (1713–1760, England) Mary Coyle Chase (1907–1981, United States) Paddy Chayefsky (1923–1981, United States) Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904, Russia) Matilde Cherner (1833-1880, Spain) Andrew Cherry (1762–1812, Ireland) William Rufus Chetwood (died 1766 ...
Betty Smith (11 December 1921 – 24 December 2016), known by the stage name Liz Smith, [2] was an English actress known for her roles in BBC sitcoms, including as Annie Brandon in I Didn't Know You Cared (1975–1979), the sisters Bette and Belle in 2point4 Children (1991–1999), Letitia Cropley in The Vicar of Dibley (1994–1996) and Norma ("Nana") in The Royle Family (1998–2006).
Richard Wagner's Bayreuth Festival Theatre.. A wide range of movements existed in the theatrical culture of Europe and the United States in the 19th century. In the West, they include Romanticism, melodrama, the well-made plays of Scribe and Sardou, the farces of Feydeau, the problem plays of Naturalism and Realism, Wagner's operatic Gesamtkunstwerk, Gilbert and Sullivan's plays and operas ...