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16:08, 24 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Tanner (Created page with "A tanner tanned animal hides.")
15:54, 24 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Tamworth (Created page with "Tamworth was a large market town in Staffordshire, England, in the early modern period.")
15:41, 24 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Sharers' Papers (Created page with "In a dispute over shares in the King's men, various long-time members of the company including Cuthbert Burbage spoke to some details about the business relationships among sh...")
16:09, 17 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Suppressed drama (Created page with "Every now and then the English government suppressed the performance of a play.")
16:08, 17 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Suicide (Created page with "Suicide was a common form of death in early modern English drama.")
16:06, 17 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Strasburg (Created page with "Stasburg is a town in Germany that entertained players in the early modern period.")
16:03, 17 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Stephen Gosson (Created page with "Roughly contemporary with Shakespeare, Stephen Gosson was himself a dramatist but is better known as a critic of the theater.")
15:59, 17 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Star Chamber (Created page with "The Star Chamber was a court where the monarch's Privy Council members served as judges.")
15:55, 17 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:St. James's Palace (Created page with "St. James's Palace was the royal palace in the Elizabethan period.")
15:50, 17 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:St.John's students (Created page with "The students of St. John's are known to have participated in theatrical activities.")
15:48, 17 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:St.John's, Cambridge (Created page with "St. John's is a college at the University of Cambridge.")
15:47, 17 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Spanish (Created page with "The Spanish were competitors with the English on the seas and turn up in the drama (usually) as villains.")
15:45, 17 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Spain (Created page with "Spain, a competitor of England in politics and literature, turns up in connection with extant and lost plays.")
15:40, 17 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Sotheby's (Created page with "Sotheby's is an auction house.")
15:37, 17 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Sophy (Created page with ""Sophy" is a term for the ruler of Persia.")
15:27, 17 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Sir Robert Cotton (Created page with "A member of Parliament during the reign of James I, Sir Robert Cotton founded a library that amassed a large holding of manuscripts.")
15:21, 17 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Sir Francis Walsingham (Created page with "Sir Francis Walsingham was secretary to Queen Elizabeth; he was noted for being in addition her spymaster.")
15:18, 17 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Sir Francis Drake (Created page with "Sir Francis Drake was a sea captain and explorer, famous for voyages to the New World and sailing around the world. His most famous ship was the ''Golden Hind''.")
15:11, 17 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Simon Stafford (Created page with "Simon Stafford was a printer associated with plays from 1599 to 1611.")
15:04, 17 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Siege of Jerusalem (Created page with "There were numerous sieges of Jerusalem in the first century CE, and crusades that followed suit in the centuries beyond.")
19:23, 16 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Seneca (Created page with "Seneca was a Roman philosopher and dramatist; he died in 65 CE.")
19:16, 16 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Scottish Play (Created page with "Superstitious people in the theater world will not say the name of Shakespeare's ''Macbeth'' out loud, calling it instead the "Scottish Play."")
19:14, 16 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Scotland (Created page with "Scotland was the setting of various early modern plays, extant and lost.")
19:13, 16 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Schøyen Collection (Created page with "This collection is an enormous collection of manuscripts held in private in London and Oslo.")
19:11, 16 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Scaffold speeches (Created page with "The scaffold speech was a stock feature of executions in early modern England, and the drama of the period reflected that.")
19:10, 16 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Scaffold marriages (Created page with "A phenomenon of a few narratives that lie behind early modern drama and literature is the scaffold marriage, in which the condemned is redeemed by the offer of marriage.")
19:07, 16 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Saxons (Created page with "Saxons were Germanic peoples, many of whom migrated north and settled in England, marrying with another Germanic group, the Angles, and producing Anglo-Saxons.")
19:03, 16 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Saxo Grammaticus (Created page with "Saxo Grammaticus, 1160-1220, was a Danish historian whose work served as the source for the story of Hamlet, prince of Denmark.")
18:59, 16 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Samuel Rowley (Created page with "Much of what is known about Samuel Rowley is documented in the diary of Philip Henslowe. Rowley wrote plays for the Admiral's men, and he collaborated with William Bird to pro...")
16:35, 16 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Satire (Created page with "Early modern drama contained both satire of persons and satire of politics.")
11:50, 15 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Unknown provenance (Created page with "Plays without documentation on venue and/or company affiliation have an "unknown" provenance.")
18:13, 14 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Samson (Created page with "Samson is a famous character in the Old Testament.")
18:11, 14 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Saints (Created page with "Saints, officially rejected by protestant English government, turn up frequently in early modern English drama as characters and as figurative language.")
17:44, 14 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Royal performances (Created page with "A royal performance might have taken place at the English court or at another site where the king (or queen) was present.")
17:42, 14 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Royal Progress (Created page with "A royal progress in the early modern period in England was an elaborate "road trip" of the court into the country, with considerable entertainment offered at the stops along t...")
17:41, 14 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Rowland Whyte (Created page with "Rowland Whyte was an official associated with the household of Sir Robert Sidney, and his correspondence occasionally mentioned plays.")
17:34, 14 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Rothenburg (Created page with "Rothenburg is a town in Bavaria.")
17:32, 14 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Rome (Created page with "Rome, both a major city in Italy and the site of Catholic faith (the Vatican), is in early modern English drama is usually perceived as a enemy to English protestant rule.")
17:30, 14 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Romantic tragedy (Created page with "A play might be labeled a "romantic tragedy" if it combined features of the romance and the tragedy.")
17:28, 14 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Romantic comedy (Created page with "A play that combines a significant love affair and the features of the romance genre might be characterized as a "romantic comedy"; also, a play with just the significant love...")
17:26, 14 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Romance (Created page with "The romance was a genre of prose and drama that flourished in the medieval and early modern periods. It is characterized by global travel, feats of valor, magic, and poignant...")
17:23, 14 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Rojas (Created page with "Fernando de Rojas was a Spanish author (d. 1541), whose one known play, ''La Celestina Reina,'' stands at the turn from the medieval period to the Renaissance.")
19:20, 11 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Rogers and Ley's List (Created page with "Rogers and Ley were publishers who put together a list of play titles in 1656, many of which were attributed to dramatists.")
19:15, 11 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Robin Hood (Created page with "Robin Hood, legendary friend of the poor, shows up in many extant plays and no doubt lost plays also.")
19:11, 11 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Robert Yarington (Created page with "Robert Yarington's name is on a publication entitled ''Two Lamentable Tragedies." He may (or may not) have been a dramatist. If he was a dramatist, he may (or may not) have wr...")
19:05, 11 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Robert Topcliffe (Created page with "Robert Topcliffe was one of the examiners of government prisoners in the Elizabethan period, noted for his skill in torture.")
19:00, 11 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Robert Sidney (Created page with "Sir Robert Sidney, Earl of Leicester, belonged to the upper echelon of aristocracy in the Elizabethan-Jacobean period.")
18:56, 11 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Robert Percy (Created page with "Robert Percy was a player with the company of Leicester's men in the 1580s.")
18:14, 11 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Robert Miles (Created page with "Robert Miles was one of the men involved in the arguments among the claimants for ownership of the playhouse in Shoreditch known as the Theater.")
18:13, 11 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Robert Daborne (Created page with "Robert Daborne, 1580-1628, was a dramatist in the Jacobean period. He is noted for a series of letters sent to Philip Henslowe and preserved in the Dulwich College Library.")