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- 15:07, 9 December 2021 Rlknutson talk contribs created page John of Gaunt (Created page with "{{Play |isStub=No |isSparse=No |dramatists=Anon. Play Titles A |year=1594 |gregNo=θ }} == Historical Records == == Theatrical Provenance == == Probable Genre(s) ==...")
- 13:40, 9 December 2021 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Stationers' Register (Created page with "The Stationers' Register is next only to the diary of Philip Henslowe in recording the names of plays now lost. Its volumes may be found online on the "Works Cited" page of th...")
- 13:08, 9 December 2021 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Robin Hood and Little John (Created page with "{{Play |isStub=No |isSparse=No |dramatists=Anon. Play Titles A |year=1594 |venue=Category:Unknown |documentarySources=Stationers' Register |wigginsNo=868 |gregNo=θ 13 }} == H...")
- 16:22, 12 March 2021 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Anthony Munday (Created page with "Anthony Munday was a prolific playwright in the early modern period. A few years older than Shakespeare, he was more a free-lance dramatist than company-affiliated, though the...")
- 16:18, 12 March 2021 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Henry Burnell (Created page with "Henry Burnell was a playwright in England in the 1630s.")
- 13:25, 7 March 2021 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Wonder of a Woman, The (Created page with "{{Play |dramatists=Anon. Play Titles A |year=1595 |venue=Rose |company=Admiral's |probableGenres=Comedy |documentarySources=Performance Records (Henslowe's Diary) |wigginsNo=#...")
- 16:22, 23 February 2021 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Olympio and Eugenio (Created page with "{{Play |dramatists=Anon. Play Titles A |year=1595 |venue=Rose |company=Admiral's |probableGenres=Unknown |documentarySources=Performance Records (Henslowe's Diary) |wigginsNo=...")
- 16:19, 23 February 2021 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Seleo and Olympo (Created page with "{{Play |dramatists=Anon. Play Titles A |year=1595 |venue=Rose |company=Admiral's |probableGenres=Unknown |documentarySources=Performance Records (Henslowe's Diary) |wigginsNo=...")
- 16:08, 18 February 2021 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Hercules, Parts 1 and 2 (Created page with "{{Play |dramatists=Anon. Play Titles A |year=1595 |venue=Rose |company=Admiral's |probableGenres=Classical legend |documentarySources=Performance Records (Henslowe's Diary) |w...")
- 15:39, 17 February 2021 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Barnardo and Fiammetta (Created page with "{{Play |dramatists=Anon. Play Titles A |year=1595 |venue=Rose |company=Admiral's |probableGenres=Romance |documentarySources=Performance Records (Henslowe's Diary) |wigginsNo=...")
- 10:35, 10 February 2021 Rlknutson talk contribs created page French Comedy, The (Created page with "{{Play |dramatists=Anon. Play Titles A |year=1595 |venue=Rose |company=Admiral's |probableGenres=Comedy |documentarySources=Performance Records (Henslowe's Diary) |wigginsNo=#...")
- 13:00, 9 February 2021 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Henry V (Created page with "{{Play |dramatists=Anon. Play Titles A |year=1595 |venue=Rose |company=Admiral's |probableGenres=History |documentarySources=Performance Records (Henslowe's Diary) |wigginsNo=...")
- 16:04, 5 February 2021 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Toy to Please Chaste Ladies, A (Created page with "{{Play |dramatists=Anon. Play Titles A |year=1595 |venue=Rose |company=Admiral's |probableGenres=Comedy |documentarySources=Performance Records (Henslowe's Diary) |wigginsNo=#...")
- 14:29, 29 January 2021 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Antony and Vallia (Created page with "{{Play |dramatists=Anon. Play Titles A |year=1595 |venue=Rose |company=Admiral's |themes=Category:Unknown |probableGenres=Romance |documentarySources=Performance Records (Hens...")
- 12:43, 7 January 2021 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Mack, The (Created page with "{{Play |dramatists=Anon. Play Titles A |year=1595 |venue=Rose |company=Admiral's |themes=Henslowe's records |probableGenres=Comedy? (Harbage) |documentarySources=Performance R...")
- 13:09, 25 December 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Costumes (Created page with "This category tags those lost plays that were special in some sense because of a character's costume. Also it includes those plays for which Philip Henslowe recorded purchases...")
- 12:39, 9 December 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:William Boyle (Created page with "William Boyle, not otherwise known in theatrical records, offered a script of ''Jugurtha'' to the Admiral's men in February 1600, by way of William Bird. WorksCited|Bentley,...")
- 17:24, 7 December 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Like unto Like (Created page with "{{Play |dramatists=Anon. Play Titles A |year=1600 |venue=Rose |company=Pembroke's men |themes=Captivity |probableGenres=Unknown |documentarySources=Performance Records (Henslo...")
- 15:49, 1 December 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Diuers thinges (Created page with "Philip Henslowe frequently recorded payments for "diuers thinges:" for plays.")
- 16:44, 13 November 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Christopher Middleton (Created page with "Christopher Middleton was the author of ''The Famous History of Chinon of England'', a romance that provided story materials for plays on knightly adventures.")
- 19:44, 4 November 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:William Rankins (Created page with "William Rankins wrote at least one play for the Admiral's men at the Rose and may have written more that have gone unrecorded.")
- 19:38, 3 November 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Thomas Towne (Created page with "Thomas Towne was a player with the Admiral's men for many years in the 1580-90s.")
- 19:37, 3 November 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Thomas Stevens (Created page with "Thomas Stevens was a player with Leicester's men in the 1570s, and he was with the troupe who toured on the continent in the 1580s.")
- 19:32, 3 November 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Thomas Plume's Library (Created page with "Thomas Plume was a cleric and scholar in the mid-seventeenth century.")
- 19:27, 3 November 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Thomas Platter (Created page with "Thomas Platter was a European scholar in the Elizabethan period, who famously visited London in 1599 and attended plays.")
- 19:05, 3 November 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Thomas Middleton (Created page with "Thomas Middleton, known for so many ventures, is important here for having written some plays that are now lost.")
- 19:04, 3 November 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Thomas May (Created page with "Thomas May was a dramatist in the Jacobean-Caroline period.")
- 19:02, 3 November 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Thomas Lodge (Created page with "Thomas Lodge is best known in the theatrical world for being a playwright.")
- 19:02, 3 November 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Thomas King (Created page with "Thomas King was a player; he was associated with Leicester's men and traveled with an English troupe on the continent.")
- 18:59, 3 November 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Thomas Jordan (Created page with "Thomas Jordon was active in the theatrical, literary, and musical worlds of the Jacobean-Caroline period.")
- 18:53, 3 November 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Thomas Gosson (Created page with "Thomas Gosson was a bookseller in London during the 1590s.")
- 18:51, 3 November 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Thomas Goffe (Created page with "Thomas Goffe was a scholar and playwright in the early seventeenth century.")
- 18:47, 3 November 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Thomas Evans (Created page with "Thomas Evans was a manager of children's companies in the 1590s; famously, he leased the Blackfriars playhouse after James Burbage bought it but the Chamberlain's men did not...")
- 18:41, 3 November 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Thomas Downton (Created page with "Thomas Downtown was a player with a lengthy career with the Admiral's men.")
- 18:40, 3 November 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Thomas Deloney (Created page with "Thomas Deloney was a writer in the 1590s (d. 1600), noted for popular literature including ballads.")
- 18:37, 3 November 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Thomas Dawson (Created page with "Thomas Dawson was a printer in London in the 1590s.")
- 18:32, 3 November 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Thomas Clarke (Created page with "Thomas Clarke was a member of Leicester's men during the period in the 1570s when that company was associated the the novel phenomenon of London-area playhouses.")
- 18:28, 3 November 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Thirty Years War (Created page with "The Thirty Years War raged in central Europe in the first half of the seventeenth century; it is noted for its savagery and staggering loss of life.")
- 18:25, 3 November 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Thieves (Created page with "Thieves were common enough in early modern England, but rarely are they the stars of individual plays.")
- 16:30, 24 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Theseus (Created page with "Theseus was a mythological hero, king of Athens, famous for tricking eh Minotaur and rescuing Ariadne (whom he later abandoned).")
- 16:26, 24 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Theocritus (Created page with "Theocritus was an ancient Greek poet.")
- 16:24, 24 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:The Strand (Created page with "The Strand was a major thoroughfare in early modern London.")
- 16:22, 24 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:The Christmas Prince (Created page with "The Christmas Prince was a seasonal figure in Yuletide celebrations.")
- 16:20, 24 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Textiles (Created page with "i.e., cloth")
- 16:19, 24 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Terence (Created page with "Terence was a Roman playwright c. 160 BCE noted for his comedies.")
- 16:16, 24 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Tavern readings (Created page with "In Philip Henslowe's diary there are several entries of payments for reading a play (or part of a play) at a tavern. There is no way to know how wide-spread the practice was,...")
- 16:12, 24 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Tasso (Created page with "Torquato Tasso was a sixteenth-century poet, especially revered in early modern England for his ''Gerusalemme liberata'' in 1681.")
- 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.")
- 18:10, 11 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Robert Armin (Created page with "Robert Armin, 1568-1615, is best known as a comedian with the Chamberlain's/ King's men, but he was also the author of plays.")
- 18:07, 11 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Ring (Created page with "Rings, magical and otherwise, figure prominently in many early modern plays.")
- 18:04, 11 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Richard Vennar (Created page with "Richard Vennar, best known for the play, "England's Joy," which was advertised for performance at the Swan playhouse in 1602.")