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The themes were almost always religious. The most famous examples are the English cycle dramas, the York Mystery Plays, the Chester Mystery Plays, the Wakefield Mystery Plays, and the N-Town Plays, as well as the morality play known as Everyman. One of the first surviving secular plays in English is The Interlude of the Student and the Girl (c ...
Plays could run longer and still draw in the audiences, leading to better profits and improved production values. The first play to achieve 500 consecutive performances was the London comedy Our Boys, opening in 1875. Its astonishing new record of 1,362 performances was bested in 1892 by Charley's Aunt. [17]
The Flying Machine: A One-Act Play for Three Men (1953), by Ray Bradbury; Fools (1981), by Neil Simon; Fortitude (1968), by Kurt Vonnegut; Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (1982), by Terrence McNally; The Frog Prince (1982), by David Mamet; The Front Page (1928), by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur; Fugitive Kind (1937), by Tennessee Williams
The play was written in Middle English during the Tudor period, but the identity of the author is unknown. Although the play was apparently produced with some frequency in the seventy-five years following its composition, no production records survive. [1] There is a similar Dutch-language morality play of the same period called Elckerlijc.
Plays set in the Viking Age (2 P) Pages in category "Plays set in the Middle Ages" ... The Famous Tragedy of the Queen of Cornwall; G.
Shakespeare's plays are a canon of approximately 39 dramatic works written by the English poet, playwright, and actor William Shakespeare. The exact number of plays as well as their classifications as tragedy, history, comedy, or otherwise is a matter of scholarly debate. Shakespeare's plays are widely regarded as among the greatest in the ...
Crothers was born on December 12, 1870, in Bloomington, Illinois, to Dr. Eli Kirk Crothers and Dr. Marie Louise (de Pew) Crothers. [3] Crothers' mother, an independent-minded woman whose father had been friends with Abraham Lincoln, went to medical school at forty and became one of the first woman physicians in Illinois, encountering and eventually overcoming much opposition to her practice in ...
Other important writers include John Millington Synge, whose plays include Riders to the Sea and The Playboy of the Western World (1907). [5] George Bernard Shaw was another famous playwright of the Victorian era. He wrote more than sixty plays. His plays were mostly about social problems such as education, religion, marriage, and class privileges.