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19:27, 9 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Nero (Created page with "Nero was the emperor of Rome from 37 CE to 68 CE, most famous (perhaps) for playing violin while Rome burned.")
19:25, 9 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Nativity (Created page with ""Nativity" is a term primarily associated with the birth of the baby Jesus in the stable at Bethlehem, but generically it just means "birth."")
19:23, 9 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:National Archives (Created page with "The National Archives are the recent version of the Public Record Office, repository of a vast variety of English historical documents.")
19:21, 9 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Nathan Field (Created page with "Nathan Field was a player, in his youth for boys companies and as an adult for the King's men. He also wrote plays.")
19:18, 9 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Mythology (Created page with "A narrative that takes on magnified significant might become mythology if it permeates a body of literature or art to such an extent that it carries power far beyond the detai...")
19:13, 9 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Mystery (Created page with "Certain kinds of plays from medieval England are termed "mystery plays." As a rule these plays address biblical subject matter.<br>")
19:09, 9 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Muses (Created page with "The muses figure prominently in Greek mythology and literature as the inspiration of literature, science, and the arts.")
17:46, 8 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse (Created page with "Moritz, Landgrave of Hesse belonged to a German dynasty of wealth and power.")
17:42, 8 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Morality (Created page with ""Morality" is a term given plays in the medieval moral theatrical tradition.")
17:41, 8 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Moral (Created page with "A "moral" in theatrical terms refers to a kind of drama with beginnings in the medieval period but considerable development and popularity during the reigns of Henry VIII and...")
17:39, 8 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Moors (Created page with "Moors were North Africans; they moved all around the Mediterranean in the early modern period, especially Spain.")
17:36, 8 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Mirror for Magistrates (Created page with "''The Mirror for Magistrates'' was essentially a pocket-book sized history of England, and dramatists used it repeated for subject matter.")
17:32, 8 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Miracle (Created page with "Miracles were associated both with religious subject matter and magic.")
17:30, 8 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Mines (Created page with "Mines were sites of industrial activity in the early modern period and valuable for the the raw materials harvested from them.")
17:29, 8 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Monster (Created page with "There are real monsters in early modern drama as well as pretend ones.")
17:27, 8 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Miles Gloriosus (Created page with "A boisterous, pugnacious braggart, a figure of fun in classical as well as early modern drama.")
17:21, 8 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Mile End (Created page with "Mile End was an area east and a bit north of the City of London; in Shakespeare's time it had many green spaces, attractive to builders of structures such as playhouses as wel...")
17:17, 8 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Michael Drayton (Created page with "Michael Drayton, a year older than Shakespeare and also a Warwickshire man, had a successful career as writer in many of the media that Shakespeare himself did well, but he ha...")
17:13, 8 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Mexico (Created page with "Mexico is one of the destinations of adventurers sailing across the Atlantic in the early modern period to find gold and other treasures.")
17:11, 8 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Merlin (Created page with "Merlin is the famous wizard associated with Arthurian legend.")
17:09, 8 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Merchants (Created page with "Merchants belonged to the middle class that were business minded in the early modern period and consequently often financially successful and upwardly mobile.")
17:07, 8 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Merchant Adventurers (Created page with "The merchant adventurers were a guild-like organization formed in the early 1400s.")
17:01, 8 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Merchant Taylors School (Created page with "The school associated with the Merchant Taylors.")
13:10, 8 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Martyn Calthrop (Created page with "Calthrop was the Lord Mayor of London c. 1520.")
13:08, 8 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Martin Marprelate (Created page with "Martin Marprelate was the pen name of an author in England c. 1588 who wrote inflammatory tracts against the ecclesiastical hierarchy of the increasingly "state' church in Eng...")
13:01, 8 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Manuscript (Created page with "Before printing, and for a long time afterward, works were recorded in manuscript, many of which have now perished.")
12:59, 8 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Maids of Honour (Created page with "The women who attended the English queen were often referred to as the Maids of Honour.")
12:58, 8 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Maidenhead Inn (Created page with "An inn in Islington.")
12:56, 8 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Magic (Created page with "Magic figures prominently in early modern drama, not only with trinkets (rings, for ex) but also with persecution (Joan of Arc, for example).")
12:53, 8 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Magellan (Created page with "Ferdinand Magellan was an explorer from Portugal in the early sixteenth century; his voyage in 1519-1522 was the first to circumnavigate the world.")
12:49, 8 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Magdeburg (Created page with "A city in what is now central Germany on the Elbe River; playing companies visited Magdeburg in the early modern period.")
12:47, 8 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Macedonia (Created page with "Macedonia is a country north of Greece, across the Adriatic Sea from Italy.")
17:29, 7 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Lydgate (Created page with "John Lydgate, a generation younger than Geoffrey Chaucer, was a monk and poet who wrote works used as source material by many early modern dramatists.")
17:25, 7 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Low Countries (Created page with "An old-fashioned term for a cluster of nations and city-states on the north coast of Europe to the east of France.")
17:24, 7 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Love-sickness (Created page with "Love-sickness is a condition historically attributed to girls experiencing romantic feelings for the first time.")
17:22, 7 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Love (Created page with ""Love" was a popular topic of early modern drama.")
17:21, 7 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Lord Admiral (Created page with "The Lord Admiral was a royal official who, in the Elizabethan period, was the patron of playing companies.")
17:19, 7 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:License (Created page with "License: an authorization of a play or a company.")
17:17, 7 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Libel (Created page with "Libel is a legal term for false charges against personal/corporate behavior.")
17:16, 7 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Lenzburg, Aargau (Switzerland) (Created page with "A town in Switzerland that entertained companies of players in the early modern period.")
17:15, 7 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Leicester's Men (Created page with "Leicester's men was a company of players who, with James Burbage in charge, were the initial lessees of the playhouse in Shoreditch built in 1576.")
17:12, 7 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Lamentable (Created page with ""Lamentable" is a synonym for "sad" or "sorrowful."")
17:11, 7 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Lady Fortune (Created page with "Lady Fortune was a mythological figure often depicted in emblems and other imagery in the early modern period.")
17:10, 7 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:King and Queen's Young (Created page with "King and Queen's Young was a company of players in the early Jacobean years.")
17:08, 7 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:King Rufus (Created page with "King rufus, also King William II, ascended to the English throne in 1087.")
17:06, 7 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:King James (Created page with "King James succeeded Queen Elizabeth to the throne of England in 1603.")
17:05, 7 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:King Arthur (Created page with "King Arthur, part-legend and part-historical, was a king in pre-Norman England.")
17:04, 7 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:King's Men repertory list (1641) (Created page with "A list of plays attributed to the repertory of the King's men in 1641.")
17:02, 7 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Kassel (Created page with "Kassel is a city in central Germany that entertained playing companies in the early modern period.")
17:00, 7 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Judith (Created page with "The play, "Judith," told the story of the widow, Judith, famous from biblical times for the beheading of Holofernes.")