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in The Oxford Dictionary of Plays
January 2005; published online January 2006.
Reference Entry. Subjects: literary studies - plays and playwrights. 9 words.
‘A Cause like yours would summon the Just Gods’: Tragedy, 1688–1695
in English Drama 1660–1700
March 1996; published online October 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: literary studies - plays and playwrights. 9739 words.
The first tragedy known to have been premiered after the Revolution was Nathaniel Lee's anti-Catholic pot-boiler The Massacre of Paris, written during the Exclusion Crisis and banned. Here ‘A hundred...
1535: A Midsummer Night’s Apocalypse
in Drama and the Transfer of Power in Renaissance England
August 2012; published online September 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: literary studies - plays and playwrights. 5360 words.
This chapter identifies an apocalyptic show described in diplomatic correspondence of 1535 as the London Midsummer Watch, which that year was staged with some practical assistance from the court. The...
‘A Song expressing the Change of their Condition’: Tragicomedy and Opera, 1668–1676
in English Drama 1660–1700
March 1996; published online October 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: literary studies - plays and playwrights. 11873 words.
Tragicomedy, the dominant genre of the early Restoration, did not survive long into the 1670s, killed off by declining faith in the heroic and the hero-king. The decreasing convincingness of early...
The Abbey Theatre, 1899-1999
October 1999; published online October 2011.
Book. Subjects: literary studies - plays and playwrights. 294 pages.
A century ago this year, productions of W. B. Yeats' The Countess Cathleen and Edward Martyn's The Heather Field inaugurated the Irish Literary Theatre, which was to take its name from its home in...
Abbiamo tutte la stessa storia
in The Oxford Dictionary of Plays
January 2005; published online January 2006.
Reference Entry. Subjects: literary studies - plays and playwrights. 8 words.
Abhijñānaśakuntala
in The Oxford Dictionary of Plays
January 2005; published online January 2006.
Reference Entry. Subjects: literary studies - plays and playwrights. 3 words.
Abie's Irish Rose
in The Oxford Dictionary of Plays
January 2005; published online January 2006.
Reference Entry. Subjects: literary studies - plays and playwrights. 269 words.
A: Anne Nichols Pf: New York, 1922 Pb: 1923 G: Com. in 3 acts S: New York, 1920s C: 6m,
Abigail's Party
Overview page. Subjects: literary studies - plays and playwrights.
Abigail's Party
in The Oxford Dictionary of Plays
January 2005; published online January 2006.
Reference Entry. Subjects: literary studies - plays and playwrights. 301 words.
A: Mike Leigh Pf: 1977, London Pb: 1979 G: Com. in 2 acts S: Laurence and Beverly's suburban home,