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- 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.")
- 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.")