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- 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.")
- 18:01, 11 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Richard Mulcaster (Created page with "Richard Mulcaster was a notable academic, associated with the Merchant Taylors School and St. Paul's School.")
- 17:57, 11 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Richard Hickes (Created page with "Richard Hickes owned the property associated with the playhouse at Newington.")
- 17:54, 11 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Richard Hathway (Created page with "Richard Hathway was a dramatist in the 1590s; he wrote plays for the Admiral's men at the Rose and Fortune, also Worcester's men at the Rose.")
- 17:51, 11 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Richard Field (Created page with "Richard Field was a printer and publisher; from Stratford-on-Avon, he was associated with the works of Shakespeare.")
- 17:48, 11 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Richard Farrant (Created page with "Richard Farrant, 1525-80, was a composer and dramatist; he was associated with the Gentlemen of the Chapel Royal.")
- 17:45, 11 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Richard Edwards (Created page with "Richard Edwards, 1525-66, was a poet, dramatist, and musician.")
- 17:38, 11 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Revival (Created page with "It is rare that any play can be traced in its maiden run as wall as in revival, but it is extra rare when a lost play can be so traced.")
- 17:36, 11 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Revels Office (Created page with "Clerks at the monarch's Revels Office recorded expenses for performances at court; these records have much information of plays now lost.")
- 17:34, 11 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Rejected suitors (Created page with "Domestic drama tends to have rejected suitors.")
- 17:33, 11 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Recent history (Created page with "Not many plays draw on contemporary events, but some do.")
- 17:30, 11 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Race (Created page with "Issues of race, common in extant plays, were no doubt common in lost plays too.")
- 18:01, 10 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Robert Wilson, stationer) (Created page with "Robert Wilson was one of the stationers on the publication in 1612 of ''The Discovery of a London Monster, called The Black Dog of Newgate.''")
- 17:50, 10 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Robert Wilson) (Created page with "Robert Wilson was one of the stationers on the publication in 1612 of ''The Discovery of a London Monster, called The Black Dog of Newgate.''")
- 17:34, 10 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Queen Margaret of Anjou (Created page with "Queen Margaret of Anjou was the wife of King Henry VI.")
- 17:29, 10 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Pyrotechnics (Created page with "Lots of scenes in extant drama suggest that "playing with fire" was probably a popular feature of lost plays too.")
- 17:26, 10 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Protestant (Created page with "Protestant was a broad term referring to any Christian not a Catholic in the early modern period.")
- 17:23, 10 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Prophetic dream (Created page with "Prophetic dreams were a mainstay of biblical stories but available to characters in other kinds of stories too.")
- 17:20, 10 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Prologues (Created page with "Many plays have survived with prologues, allowing the guess that many lost plays have lost prologues as well.")
- 17:19, 10 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Projectors (Created page with ""Projector" was a term for a planner, often associated with scheming officials, preying on the weak and disadvantaged.")
- 17:07, 10 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Prizes (Created page with ""Prize" is a flexible term in a lot of early modern literature, being perhaps money or a woman.")
- 17:03, 10 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Privy Council (Created page with "The Privy Council was a facet of the English monarch's government at the highest level.")
- 16:59, 10 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Prison (Created page with "Prison scenes are commonplace in early modern drama.")
- 16:45, 10 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Print fragment (Created page with "In rare cases a print fragment survives of what appears to be a lost play.")
- 16:44, 10 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Princes (Created page with "Princes were common figures in early modern drama.")
- 16:39, 10 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Pregnancy out of wedlock (Created page with "Pregnancy out of wedlock is never a good thing in early modern drama.")
- 16:37, 10 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Pranks (Created page with "Pranks were a tool of comedic figures in early modern drama.")
- 16:36, 10 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Prague (Created page with "Prague is a city in central Europe (now Czechoslovakia).")
- 16:34, 10 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Powis Castle (Created page with "Powis Castle is a medieval castle in Wales.")
- 16:31, 10 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Pope (Created page with "The Pope was a character in many plays.")
- 16:25, 10 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Polyphemus (Created page with "Polyphemus was a one-eyed monster who is famous for an encounter with Ulysses on his return voyage from Troy.")
- 16:23, 10 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Political satire (Created page with "Political satire is a frequent tool of dramatists in extant plays; no doubt it was a feature of some lost plays too.")
- 16:22, 10 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Poison (Created page with "Villains in early modern plays often use poison to dispatch victims, but broken-hearted lovers find it a means of dying for love.")
- 16:20, 10 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Poetry (Created page with "Early modern poetry and its modes were frequent resources for dramatists.")
- 16:16, 10 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Plutarch (Created page with "Plutarch, a Greek who lived in the second half of the first century, CE, is best known for a history of famous Greeks and Romans, often used by dramatists for story material.")
- 16:13, 10 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Plot summary (Created page with "There are some lost plays for which some knowledge of the plot of the stage story is known.")
- 16:10, 10 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Playhouse architecture (Created page with "Playhouse architecture and the theatrics of plays influenced the experience of playgoing.")
- 16:07, 10 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Plantation (Created page with "Great stretches of land when colonized in the New World were called plantations.")
- 16:05, 10 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Pirates (Created page with "Pirates were notorious not only in the Mediterranean but also the English Channel and the coastal waters of western Europe.")
- 16:03, 10 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Philistines (Created page with "The Philistines were peoples from Biblical times who are best known for their conflicts with the Israelites.")
- 16:00, 10 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Persia (Created page with "Persia (modern Iran) had powerful empires in the early modern period.")
- 15:58, 10 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Pardon (Created page with ""Pardon" is a legal term that indicates the removal of conviction; or, it is a term synonymous with "excuse me."")
- 15:56, 10 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Paradoxical titles (Created page with "Paradoxical titles have one or more words that contrast with one another.")
- 15:55, 10 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Pageant (Created page with "Pageants were one of various public shows with theatrical features.")
- 15:53, 10 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Oxford's men (Created page with "The various Earls of Oxford had adult playing companies from the 1580s into the 1600s.")
- 19:45, 9 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Nottingham (Created page with "Nottingham, a city in central England, was associated (among other things) with the adventures of Robin Hood.")
- 19:42, 9 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Norwich (Created page with "Norwich is a city on the eastern coast of England famous for many things but in the early modern period for its welcoming of companies of players.")
- 19:39, 9 October 2020 Rlknutson talk contribs created page Category:Nordlingen (Created page with "Nordlingen is a town in Germany that in the early modern period entertained companies of players.")
- 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.")