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| x The Changeling |
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English Renaissance | 1622 |
The Changeling is a Jacobean tragedy written by Thomas Middleton and William Rowley. Widely regarded as "among the best" tragedies of the English Renaissance, the play has accumulated a significant body of critical commentary.
The play was licensed...
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| x Samson Agonistes |
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Restoration literature | 1671 |
Samson Agonistes (Greek: "Samson the agonist") is a tragic closet drama by John Milton. It appeared with the publication of Milton's Paradise Regain'd in 1671, as the title page of that volume states: "Paradise Regained / A Poem / In IV Books / To...
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| x The Way of the World |
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Restoration literature | 1700 |
The Way of the World is a play written by British playwright William Congreve. It premiered in 1700 in the theatre in Lincoln's Inn Fields in London. It is widely regarded as being one of the best Restoration comedies written and is still performed...
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| x The Man of Mode |
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Restoration literature | 1676 |
The Man of Mode, or, Sir Fopling Flutter is a Restoration comedy by George Etherege, written in 1676 and first performed March 2 of the same year. Gibbons argues that the play "offers the comedy of manners in its most concentrated form". Despite the...
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| x Hamlet |
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English Renaissance | 1600 |
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, or more simply Hamlet, is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601. The play, set in Denmark, recounts how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle Claudius, who...
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| x The Tempest |
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English Renaissance | 1611 |
The Tempest is a play by William Shakespeare, probably written in 1610–11, although some researchers have argued for an earlier dating. The play's protagonist is the banished sorcerer Prospero, rightful Duke of Milan, who initially uses his magical...
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| x Much Ado About Nothing |
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English Renaissance | 1599 |
Much Ado About Nothing is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare set in Messina, Sicily. The story concerns a pair of lovers named Claudio and Hero who are due to be married in a week. To pass the time before their wedding day, they conspire with...
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| x As You Like It |
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English Renaissance | 1599 |
As You Like It is a pastoral comedy by William Shakespeare believed to have been written in 1599 or early 1600 and first published in the folio of 1623. The work was based upon the novel Rosalynde by Thomas Lodge. The play's first performance is...
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| x The Merchant of Venice |
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English Renaissance | 1596 |
The Merchant of Venice is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1596 and 1598. Although classified as a comedy in the First Folio, and while it shares certain aspects with Shakespeare's other romantic comedies, the...
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| x A Midsummer Night's Dream |
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English Renaissance | 1595 |
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a romantic comedy by William Shakespeare. It was suggested by "The Knight's Tale" from Geoffrey Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales and written around 1594 to 1596. It portrays the adventures of four young Athenian lovers and...
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| x The Taming of the Shrew |
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English Renaissance | 1593 |
The Taming of the Shrew is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1594.
The play begins with a framing device, often referred to as the Induction, in which a drunken tinker named Sly is tricked into thinking...
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| x Twelfth Night, or What You Will |
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English Renaissance | Feb 2, 1602 |
Twelfth Night, or What You Will is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written around 1600-01 as a Twelfth Night's entertainment for the close of the Christmas season. The play expanded on the musical interludes and riotous...
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| x Bartholomew Fair |
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English Renaissance | Oct 31, 1614 |
Bartholomew Fair: A Comedy (originally, Bartholmew Fayre: A Comedye) is a comedy in five acts by Ben Jonson, the last written of his four great comedies. It was first staged on October 31, 1614 at the Hope Theatre by the Lady Elizabeth's Men....
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| x Volpone |
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English Renaissance | 1606 |
Volpone (Italian for "The Big Fox") is a comedy by Ben Jonson first produced in 1606, drawing on elements of city comedy, black comedy and animal fable. A merciless satire of greed and lust, it remains Jonson's most-performed play, and it is among...
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| x The Alchemist |
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English Renaissance | 1610 |
The Alchemist is a comedy by English playwright Ben Jonson. First performed in 1610 by the King's Men, it is generally considered Jonson's best and most characteristic comedy; Samuel Taylor Coleridge claimed that it had one of the three most perfect...
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| x Every Man in His Humour |
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English Renaissance | 1598 |
Every Man in His Humour is a 1598 play by the English playwright Ben Jonson. The play belongs to the subgenre of the "humours comedy," in which each major character is dominated by an overriding humour or obsession.
All the available evidence...
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| x Eastward Hoe | English Renaissance | 1605 |
Eastward Hoe or Eastward Ho, is an early Jacobean era stage play, a satire and city comedy written by George Chapman, Ben Jonson, and John Marston, printed in 1605. The play was written in response to Westward Ho, an earlier satire by Thomas Dekker...
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| x Epicoene, or the Silent Woman | English Renaissance | 1609 |
Epicœne, or The silent woman is a comedy by Renaissance playwright Ben Jonson. It was originally performed by the Blackfriars Children, a group of boy players, in 1609. It was, by Jonson's admission, a failure on its first presentation; however,...
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| x Titus Andronicus |
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English Renaissance | 1590 |
Titus Andronicus may be Shakespeare's earliest tragedy; it is believed to have been written in the early 1590s. It depicts a Roman general who is engaged in a cycle of revenge with his enemy Tamora, the Queen of the Goths. The play is by far...
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| x Richard III |
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English Renaissance | 1592 |
Richard III is a history play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in approximately 1591, depicting the Machiavellian rise to power and subsequent short reign of Richard III of England. The play is grouped among the histories in the...
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| x King John |
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English Renaissance | 1596 |
The Life and Death of King John, a history play by William Shakespeare, dramatises the reign of King John of England (ruled 1199–1216), son of Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine and father of Henry III of England. It is believed to have...
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| x Henry V |
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English Renaissance | 1599 |
Henry V is a history play by William Shakespeare, written in 1599. It is based on the life of King Henry V of England, and focuses on events immediately before and after the Battle of Agincourt (1415) during the Hundred Years' War.
The play is the...
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| x Troilus and Cressida |
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English Renaissance | 1602 |
Troilus and Cressida is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1602. The play (also described as one of Shakespeare's problem plays) is not a conventional tragedy, since its protagonist (Troilus) does not die. The play...
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| x Measure for Measure |
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English Renaissance | 1603 |
Measure for Measure is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603 or 1604. It was originally listed as a comedy, but is also classified by modern scholars as one of Shakespeare's problem plays. Originally published in the...
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| x King Lear |
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English Renaissance | 1605 |
King Lear is a tragedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1603 and 1606. It is considered one of his greatest works. The play is based on the legend of Leir of Britain, a mythological pre-Roman Celtic king. It has been...
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| x Antony and Cleopatra |
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English Renaissance | 1606 |
Antony and Cleopatra is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. It was first printed in the First Folio of 1623. The plot is based on Thomas North's translation of Plutarch's Life of Markus Antonius and follows the relationship between Cleopatra and Mark...
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| x Pericles, Prince of Tyre |
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English Renaissance | 1607 |
Pericles, Prince of Tyre is a play written at least in part by William Shakespeare and included in modern editions of his collected works despite questions over its authorship, as it was not included in the First Folio. Modern editors generally...
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| x The Winter's Tale |
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English Renaissance | 1610 |
The Winter's Tale is a play by William Shakespeare, first published in the First Folio in 1623. Although it was listed as a comedy when it first appeared, some modern editors have relabeled the play a romance. Some critics, among them W. W. Lawrence...
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| x Tamburlaine |
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English Renaissance | 1587 |
Tamburlaine the Great is the name of a play in two parts by Christopher Marlowe. It is loosely based on the life of the Central Asian emperor, Timur 'the lame'. Written in 1587 or 1588, the play is a milestone in Elizabethan public drama; it marks a...
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| x The Spanish Tragedy |
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English Renaissance | 1587 |
The Spanish Tragedy is an Elizabethan tragedy written by Thomas Kyd between 1582 and 1592. Highly popular and influential in its time, The Spanish Tragedy established a new genre in English theatre, the revenge play or revenge tragedy. Its plot...
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| x The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus |
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English Renaissance | 1592 |
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, normally known simply as Doctor Faustus, is a play by Christopher Marlowe, based on the Faust story, in which a man sells his soul to the devil for power and knowledge. Doctor Faustus was first published in...
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| x Edward II |
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English Renaissance | 1592 |
Edward II is a Renaissance or Early Modern period play written by Christopher Marlowe. It is one of the earliest English history plays. The full title of the first publication is The Troublesome Reign and Lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King...
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| x The Duchess of Malfi |
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English Renaissance | 1614 |
The Duchess of Malfi is a macabre, tragic play written by the English dramatist John Webster in 1612–13. It was first performed privately at the Blackfriars Theatre, then before a more general audience at The Globe, in 1613-14. Published for the...
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| x The Jew of Malta | English Renaissance | 1592 |
The Jew of Malta is a play by Christopher Marlowe, probably written in 1589 or 1590. Its plot is an original story of religious conflict, intrigue, and revenge, set against a backdrop of the struggle for supremacy between Spain and the Ottoman...
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| x Dido, Queen of Carthage | English Renaissance | 1587 |
Dido, Queen of Carthage is a short play written by the English playwright Christopher Marlowe, with possible contributions by Thomas Nashe. The story of the play focuses on the classical figure of Dido, the Queen of Carthage. It tells an intense...
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| x A Chaste Maid in Cheapside |
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English Renaissance | 1613 |
A Chaste Maid in Cheapside is a city comedy written c. 1613 by English Renaissance playwright Thomas Middleton. Unpublished until 1630 and long-neglected afterwards, it is now considered among the best and most characteristic Jacobean comedies.
The...
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| x The Revenger's Tragedy |
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English Renaissance | 1606 |
The Revenger's Tragedy is an English language Jacobean revenge tragedy, in the past attributed to Cyril Tourneur but now usually recognized as the work of Thomas Middleton. It was performed in 1606, and published in 1607 by George Eld. A vivid and...
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| x The Devil is an Ass | English Renaissance | 1616 |
The Devil is an Ass is a Jacobean comedy by Ben Jonson, first performed in 1616 and first published in 1631.
The Devil is an Ass followed Bartholomew Fair (1614), one of the author's greatest works, and marks the start of the final phase of his...
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| x Women Beware Women | English Renaissance | 1623 |
Women Beware Women is a Jacobean tragedy written by Thomas Middleton, and first published in 1657.
The date of authorship of the play is deeply uncertain. Scholars have estimated its origin anywhere from 1612 to 1627; 1623–24 has been plausibly...
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| x A Trick to Catch the Old One |
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English Renaissance | 1605 |
A Trick to Catch the Old One is a Jacobean comedy written by Thomas Middleton, first published in 1608. The play is a satire in the sub-genre of city comedy.
The play was entered into the Stationers' Register on Oct. 7, 1607 by the printer George...
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| x The Plain Dealer | Restoration literature | Dec 11, 1676 |
The Plain Dealer is a Restoration comedy by William Wycherley, first performed on 11 December 1676. The play is based on Molière's Le Misanthrope, and is generally considered Wycherley's finest work along with The Country Wife.
The Play was highly...
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| x All for Love |
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Restoration literature | 1677 |
All for Love or, the World Well Lost, is a heroic drama by John Dryden written in 1677. Today, it is Dryden’s best-known and most performed play. It is a tragedy written in blank verse and is an attempt on Dryden's part to reinvigorate serious drama...
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| x The White Devil |
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English Renaissance | 1612 |
The White Devil, or Vittoria Corombona is a revenge tragedy from 1612 by English playwright John Webster (1580-1625). A notorious failure when it premiered onstage, Webster complained the play was acted in the dead of winter before an unreceptive...
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| x Summer's Last Will and Testament | English Renaissance | 1592 |
Summer's Last Will and Testament is an Elizabethan era stage play, a comedy written by Thomas Nashe. Nashe's sole extant drama, it broke new ground in the development of English Renaissance drama: "No earlier English comedy has anything like the...
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| x The Country Wife |
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Restoration literature | Jan 1675 |
The Country Wife is a Restoration comedy written in 1675 by William Wycherley. A product of the tolerant early Restoration period, the play reflects an aristocratic and anti-Puritan ideology, and was controversial for its sexual explicitness even in...
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| x The Masque of Blackness |
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English Renaissance | Jan 6, 1605 |
The Masque of Blackness was an early Jacobean era masque, first performed at the Stuart Court in the Banqueting Hall of Whitehall Palace on Twelfth Night, January 6, 1605. The masque was written by Ben Jonson at the request of Anne of Denmark, the...
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