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- 19:38, 9 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Nocturnals (Created page with "The term "nocturals" is applied to stories of the nightime.")
- 19:36, 9 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:New Year (Created page with "New Year's is January 1 by calendars in the Western world.")
- 19:33, 9 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:New World (Created page with "The phrase, "New World," to many people in early modern England evoked the continent across the Atlantic, encompassing the Americas.")
- 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with "The National Archives are the recent version of the Public Record Office, repository of a vast variety of English historical documents.")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.")
- 16:55, 7 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Joseph Simons (Created page with "Joseph Simons was a teacher associated with the Jesuit College of St. Omers in the 1620s.")
- 16:47, 7 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:John Perkin (Created page with "John Perkin was a player in the company of Leicester's men.")
- 16:15, 3 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:John Ford (Created page with "John Ford was a dramatist in the early seventeenth century; he is best known for ''Tis Pity She's a Whore.''")
- 16:05, 3 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:John Webster (Created page with "John Webster was a playwright who wrote for both the Admiral's men ''c.'' 1600 and for the King's men ''c.'' 1612.")
- 15:39, 3 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:John Underwood (Created page with "John Underwood was a player with the King's men.")
- 15:15, 3 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:John Marston (Created page with "John Marston, 1575-1634, was a versatile poet and dramatist from the 1590s, best known for plays he wrote for the boys' companies such as the two-part ''Antonio and Mellida''...")
- 20:20, 2 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:John Manningham (Created page with "John Manningham was a young law student in the very early 1600s, perhaps best known for keeping a diary in which he recounted having seen a performance of Shakespeare's ''Twel...")
- 20:17, 2 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:John Hunyadi (Created page with "John Hunyadi was a Hungarian of political and military importance in the early modern period.")
- 20:15, 2 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:John Griggs (Created page with "John Griggs was a builder associated with playhouses in the early modern English period.")
- 20:14, 2 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:John Cholmley (Created page with "John Cholmley was connected to Philip Henslowe and the Rose playhouse.")
- 20:09, 2 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:John Cawood (Created page with "John Cawood was a stationer in the early modern English period.")
- 20:07, 2 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:John Brayne (Created page with "John Brayne was a financier of early modern English playing sites including the Red Lion and Theater.")
- 20:06, 2 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:John Aubrey (Created page with "John Aubrey was an English antiquary, writer, and commentator on the culture of his time.")
- 20:04, 2 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:John Alleyn (Created page with "John Alleyn, elder brother of Edward Alleyn, was a major participant in the early modern English theater, specifically with the company of the Admiral's men in the 1580s and e...")
- 20:00, 2 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Jesuit (Created page with "A Jesuit was hunted figure in newly Protestant England because of his loyalty to the Catholic church.")
- 19:58, 2 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Jerome Savage (Created page with "Jerome Savage was a player and company manager in the early 1580s.")
- 19:56, 2 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Jerman (Created page with ""Jerman" is a name that turns up in narrative material connected with the story of Black Bateman of the North.")
- 19:54, 2 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Japan (Created page with "Japan was a place of considerable mystery in the early modern period.")
- 19:53, 2 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Jamestown (Created page with "Jamestown was an early colony in the new world of America.")
- 19:52, 2 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:James Burbage (Created page with "James Burbage may accurately be called the father of the early modern English playhouse. He was part of the project known as the Red Lion in 1467, but most famously with the T...")
- 19:50, 2 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Jacob Frey (Created page with "Jacob Frey is associated with the story of Abraham and Lot in the sixteenth century.")
- 19:46, 2 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Italy (Created page with "Italy is a common site for early modern English plays.")
- 19:44, 2 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Italians (Created page with "There are Italian characters in early modern plays.")
- 19:43, 2 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Italian history (Created page with "Italian history was relevant to many plays in the early modern period.")
- 19:41, 2 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Ireland (Created page with "Ireland was a territory where England in the early modern period often had military adventures.")
- 19:40, 2 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Inns of Court (Created page with "The Inns of Court were the legal center of London.")
- 19:38, 2 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Imported vocabulary (Created page with "Imported vocabulary concerns editorial choices.")
- 19:36, 2 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Honour (Created page with "Honour was a theme of many political plays as well as plays about love.")
- 19:33, 2 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Holyrood (Created page with "Holyrood is an area in Edinburgh; there was in the early modern period a Holyrood Abbey and palace. Mary Queen of Scots had chambers at the Palace of Holyroodhouse.")
- 18:37, 2 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Hieronymus Ziegler (Created page with "Hieronymus Ziegler was a German writer, 1514-1562.")
- 18:21, 2 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Heylyn (Created page with "Peter Heylyn was an ecclesiastic in the first half of the seventeenth century.")
- 18:18, 2 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Henry VIII (Created page with "King of England from 1491 to 1547. He was famous for many things including having had six wives, one of whom was Anne Boleyn, mother of Queen Elizabeth, whom he had beheaded.")
- 18:14, 2 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Henry Porter (Created page with "Henry Porter, dramatist, wrote at least one play for the Admiral's men (''Two Angry Women of Abingdon'') in the late 1590s; he was killed in a fight (reputedly) with John Day...")
- 18:03, 2 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Heliodorus (Created page with ""Heliodorus" is the name of various notables from the ancient world.")
- 18:00, 2 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Foreign wars (Created page with "Early modern English plays do on occasion treat subject matter including wars of England with European adversaries.")
- 17:57, 2 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Cornelius Schonaeus (Created page with "An early modern dramatist in Latin.")
- 12:58, 2 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Shrove Tuesday (Created page with "Shrove Tuesday is the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday. It was a popular play date both at court and in the public playhouses.<br>")
- 14:00, 19 August 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Solo performance (Created page with "Plays recorded in Henslowe's diary for one performance only.")
- 09:31, 14 August 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Godfrey of Boulogne, Parts 1 and 2 (Created page with "{{Play |dramatists=Anon. Play Titles A |year=1594 |venue=Rose |company=Admiral's |probableGenres=Heroical-romance |documentarySources=Performance Records (Henslowe's Diary) |w...")
- 15:05, 13 August 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Set at Maw, The (Created page with "{{Play |dramatists=Anon. Play Titles A |year=1594 |venue=Rose |company=Admiral's |probableGenres=Comedy? (Harbage) |documentarySources=Performance Records (Henslowe's Diary) |...")
- 11:46, 13 August 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:King's? (Created page with "Plays so marked might have belonged to the King's men but the evidence is too scant to be confirmatory.")
- 12:10, 7 August 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Venetian Comedy, The (Created page with "{{Play |dramatists=Anon. Play Titles A |year=1594 |venue=Rose |company=Admirald's |probableGenres=Comedy |documentarySources=Performance Records (Henslowe's Diary) |wigginsNo=...")
- 12:04, 7 August 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Love of a Grecian Lady, The (Created page with "{{Play |dramatists=Anon. Play Titles A |year=1594 |venue=Rose |company=Admirald's |probableGenres=Comedy |documentarySources=Performance Records (Henslowe's Diary) |wigginsNo=...")
- 11:47, 7 August 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Love of an English Lady, The (Created page with "{{Play |dramatists=Anon. Play Titles A |year=1594 |venue=Rose |company=Admirald's |probableGenres=Comedy |documentarySources=Performance Records (Henslowe's Diary) |wigginsNo=...")
- 13:07, 6 August 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Grecian Comedy (Created page with "{{Play |dramatists=Anon. Play Titles A |year=1594 |venue=Rose |company=Admiral's |probableGenres=Comedy |documentarySources=Performance Records (Henslowe's Diary) |wigginsNo=#...")
- 13:16, 5 August 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Siege of London, The (Created page with "{{Play |dramatists=Anon. Play Titles A |year=1594 |venue=Rose |company=Admiral's |themes=Spain |probableGenres=History |documentarySources=Performance Records (Henslowe's Diar...")
- 13:14, 27 July 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Thomas Kyd (Created page with "Thomas Kyd (b. 1588), was a dramatist from the 1580s, when he is reputed to have written for the Queen's men (though none of the evidence about him attributes a specific play...")