"Illyria (play) Illyria is a play by Bryony Lavery, written in 2002 and published along with a collection of other plays in the book ""Plays One"" in 2007. The title of the play descends from Shakespeare's play ""Twelfth Night"", which is also set in a country called ""Illyria"". Some allusions to Shakespeare's play can be found in the play, such as intertextual quotes from the original Shakespearan play, as well as some characters who share the same names as characters from ""Twelfth Night"". The play tells the story of the British journalist Maria Vargas, who is sent to the country"
"other. Illyria is also referred to as a site of pirates in Shakespeare's earlier play, ""Henry VI, Part 2."" The names of most of the characters are Italian but some of the comic characters have English names. Oddly, the ""Illyrian"" lady Olivia has an English uncle, Sir Toby Belch. It has been noted that the play's setting also has other English allusions such as Viola's use of ""Westward ho!"", a typical cry of 16th century London boatmen, and also Antonio's recommendation to Sebastian of ""The Elephant"" as where it is best to lodge in Illyria (The Elephant was a pub"
"The land of Illyria is the setting for Jean-Paul Sartre's ""Les Mains Sales"" and in Lloyd Alexander's ""The Illyrian Adventure"". John Hawkes' 1970 novel ""The Blood Oranges"" is set in a fictionalized Illyria. In the television show ""Angel"", Illyria was the name of an Old One (an ancient and powerful demon) who was resurrected in the final season. In Jacqueline Carey's book ""Kushiel's Chosen"", Illyria is featured as a vassal nation to La Serenissima (Venice). Illyria In classical antiquity, Illyria (; , ""Illyría"" or , ""Illyrís""; , see also ""Illyricum"") was a region in the western part of the Balkan"
"the exotic setting of ""Twelfth Night"", is important to the play's romantic atmosphere. Illyria was an ancient region of the Western Balkans whose coast (the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea which is the only part of ancient Illyria which is relevant to the play) covered (from north to south) the coasts of modern-day Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, and Albania. It included the city-state of the Republic of Ragusa which has been proposed as the setting. Illyria may have been suggested by the Roman comedy ""Menaechmi"", the plot of which also involves twins who are mistaken for each"
"play is based on various accounts of the semi-legendary Brythonic figure Leir of Britain, whose name has been linked by some scholars to the Brythonic god Lir/Llŷr, though in actuality the names are not etymologically related. Shakespeare's most important source is probably the second edition of ""The Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande"" by Raphael Holinshed, published in 1587. Holinshed himself found the story in the earlier ""Historia Regum Britanniae"" by Geoffrey of Monmouth, which was written in the 12th century. Edmund Spenser's ""The Faerie Queene"", published 1590, also contains a character named Cordelia, who also dies from hanging, as"
"or personal. Thus, the play's main theme is not on ""who"" did it but on ""why"" it was done. The action takes place in Illyria, a fictional Eastern European country, during the latter stages of World War II. (Illyria was an actual country of classical antiquity, whose territory included modern Yugoslavia and surroundings.) The country, an ally of Nazi Germany, is on the verge of being annexed to the Eastern Bloc. A young Communist, Hugo Barine, is told that Hoederer, a party leader, has proposed talks with non-Socialist groups, including the Fascist government and the liberal- and Nationalist-led resistance. The"
"Gallathea Gallathea or Galatea is an Elizabethan era stage play, a comedy by John Lyly. The first record of the play's performance was at Greenwich Palace on New Year's Day, 1588 where it was performed before Queen Elizabeth I and her court by the Children of St Paul's, a troupe of boy actors. At this point in his literary career, Lyly had already achieved success with his prose romance Euphues and was a writer in residence at Blackfriars theatre. The play is set in a village on the Lincolnshire shore of the river Humber and in the neighboring woods. It"
"Zapolya (play) Zapolya: A Christmas Tale is a verse play in two parts by Samuel Taylor Coleridge written in December 1815 and January 1816. It was Coleridge’s last play and, like ""Osorio"", was rejected by Theatre Royal, Drury Lane. It received its first performance in a production by Thomas Dibdin at the Surrey Theatre in 1816. The first part of the drama presents Raab Kiuprili, a heroic chieftain who confronts Emerick, the usurper of the crown of Illyria. Casimir, Kiuprili’s son, turns against his father as a result of Emerick’s deceit. Kiuprili is imprisoned with the deposed queen, Zapolya, but"
"play and how it was written. Illyria (also the location of Shakespeare's ""Twelfth Night"") was presumably based upon Hungary. The 'Parti Proletarian' is the communist party to which most of the main characters in the story belong. They are fighting for ""une société sans classes"" (""a classless society""). The other two parties mentioned in this play are the Regent's Fascist government which supports Germany and the 'Pentagone' which is made up of the middle classes. Hungary at that time was ruled by a Regent, Miklós Horthy who appointed Prime Minister Gyula Gömbös in 1932. Gömbös wanted to co-operate with Nazi"
"Olivia (Twelfth Night) Olivia is a fictional character from William Shakespeare's play ""Twelfth Night"", believed to have been written around 1600 or 1601. She is at the centre of the various plots, both the comedic and the romantic. She has various suitors. Olivia is a beautiful lady of noble birth who lives in Illyria. Before the play begins, she has recently lost her brother who was her guardian after her father died. This loss has made her grief-stricken and she has refused to see anyone who does not reside in her household, and declared that she will be in mourning"
"Attila (play) Attila is a 1667 play by Pierre Corneille. The play takes place in Attila's camp, which Corneille locates in Noricum. Despite his defeat in Catalonia, Attila managed to conclude treaties with emperor Valentinian III and with Merovech; prospective marriages were mentioned and the two concerned princesses visited Atila's camp. In the beginning of the play, Attila is undecided between Merovech's and Valentinian's sisters, Ildione and Honorie. He asks Ardaric and Valamir for advice. Each of them is in love with one of the princesses, who reciprocate their affections. Attila prefers Ildione but considers it a political matter, first"
"and foremost. After a variety of events, involving love, politics and death threats, Attila is furious at Honorie, Valamir and Ardaric. He decides to marry Ildione, but dies from hemorrhage before the beginning of their wedding ceremony. His death leaves the other protagonists expecting a brighter future. Attila (play) Attila is a 1667 play by Pierre Corneille. The play takes place in Attila's camp, which Corneille locates in Noricum. Despite his defeat in Catalonia, Attila managed to conclude treaties with emperor Valentinian III and with Merovech; prospective marriages were mentioned and the two concerned princesses visited Atila's camp. In the"
"Orsino (Twelfth Night) Duke Orsino is a fictional character from William Shakespeare's play ""Twelfth Night"", believed to have been written around 1600 or 1601. Orsino is Duke of Illyria. He is a powerful nobleman who is kind and trustworthy to everyone he meets, and constantly compares his love with Olivia with music. Orsino is a bachelor, lovesick for the beautiful Lady Olivia, but finds himself becoming more and more fond of his new page boy, Cesario (Viola in disguise), the daughter of a nobleman who knew Duke Orsino. Viola falls in love with Orsino, despite continuing to plead his case"
"world-famous politician replete with red tie and tiny hands (cf. Donald Trump), as well as numerous references to the 1990s shown in the costumes and original music. The play was performed alongside Lyly's ""Endymion"" in February 2018 by students of the Shakespeare & Performance graduate program at Mary Baldwin University in the American Shakespeare Center's Blackfriars Playhouse. Gallathea Gallathea or Galatea is an Elizabethan era stage play, a comedy by John Lyly. The first record of the play's performance was at Greenwich Palace on New Year's Day, 1588 where it was performed before Queen Elizabeth I and her court by"
"new Queen Rosania triumph in the end. The Doubtful Heir The Doubtful Heir, also known as Rosania, or Love's Victory, is a Caroline era stage play, a tragicomedy written by James Shirley and first published in 1653. The play has been described as ""swift of action, exciting of episode, fertile of surprise, and genuinely poetic."" The play dates from the Irish phase of Shirley's dramatic career (1636–40), and was acted at the Werburgh Street Theatre, most likely in 1638, under its alternative ""Rosania"" title. After Shirley's return to London (April 1640), the play was licensed for performance by Sir Henry"
"Cymbeline Cymbeline , also known as Cymbeline, King of Britain, is a play by William Shakespeare set in Ancient Britain (""c."" AD 10–14) and based on legends that formed part of the Matter of Britain concerning the early Celtic British King Cunobeline. Although listed as a tragedy in the First Folio, modern critics often classify ""Cymbeline"" as a romance or even a comedy. Like ""Othello"" and ""The Winter's Tale"", it deals with the themes of innocence and jealousy. While the precise date of composition remains unknown, the play was certainly produced as early as 1611. Cymbeline, the Roman Empire's vassal"
"Literary Themes, Shakespeare's ""Hamlet"" is described as the 'supreme literary portrait' of alienation, while noting that some may argue for Achilles in the ""Iliad"". In addition, ""Bartleby, the Scrivener"" is introduced as a perfect example because so many senses of alienation are present. Other literary works described as dealing with the theme of alienation are: ""The Bell Jar"", ""Black Boy"", ""Brave New World"", ""The Catcher in the Rye"", ""The Chosen"", ""Dubliners"", ""Othello"", ""Fahrenheit 451"", ""Invisible Man"", ""Mrs Dalloway"", ""Notes from Underground"", ""One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest"", ""The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"", ""The Stranger"" and ""The"
"cannot maintain control over, and therefore must submit to. Antony and Cleopatra Antony and Cleopatra (First Folio title: The Tragedie of Anthonie, and Cleopatra) is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. The play was performed first circa 1607 at the Blackfriars Theatre or the Globe Theatre by the King's Men. Its first appearance in print was in the Folio of 1623. The plot is based on Thomas North's translation of Plutarch's ""Lives"" and follows the relationship between Cleopatra and Mark Antony from the time of the Sicilian revolt to Cleopatra's suicide during the Final War of the Roman Republic. The major"
"blissfully irreverent to Shakespeare and everything else...The humor of the show is light-fingered and lighthearted, and its vitality and charm are terrific. The music is always engaging.' "" Thomas S. Hischak (professor of theatre at the State University of New York College at Cortland and author) wrote that ""As cockeyed as the adaption was, with Shakespeare's Illyria now a gleaming steel Manhattan, the unpretentious show was a delight from start to finish."" Your Own Thing Your Own Thing is a rock-styled musical comedy loosely based on ""Twelfth Night"" by William Shakespeare. It premiered off-Broadway in early 1968. The music and"
"soldiers, with a share of soldierly drinking and brawling, try to make Bertoldi brave, and failing that, to make him appear brave; but that fails too. Eventually making the best of a bad job, Florelia marries Hortensio. The Imposture The Imposture is a Caroline era stage play, a tragicomedy written by James Shirley and first published in 1653. Shirley himself considered ""The Imposture"" the best of his romantic comedies. ""The Imposture"" was licensed for performance (as ""The Imposter"") by Sir Henry Herbert, the Master of the Revels, on 10 November 1640. It was acted at the Blackfriars Theatre by the"
"Roman plays ""Coriolanus"", ""Julius Caesar"", and ""Antony and Cleopatra"". Another tragedy ""King Lear"", is based on British legend, as is the romanc ""Cymbeline, King of Britain"", which is set in Ancient Britain. Other playwrights contemporary to Shakespeare, such as Christopher Marlowe, also dramatized historical topics. Marlowe wrote ""Edward the Second"" which deals with the deposition of King Edward II by his barons and the Queen, who resent the undue influence the king's favourites have in court and state affairs, and ""The Massacre at Paris"", which dramatizes the events of the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre in France in 1572. Marlowe's ""Tamburlaine"
"for seven years (The element itself, till seven years' heat, Shall not behold her face at ample view). Because of her wealth and beauty Olivia attracts various men (Malvolio, Sir Andrew Aguecheek) who wish to marry her. The play begins with the Duke of Illyria, Orsino, pining away over his love for Olivia while she refuses to accept him as a suitor. Sir Andrew has been invited to her household by Sir Toby, and Andrew hopes to use his stay to make Olivia his bride. Malvolio uses his position as steward to gain her affections. Despite all of the rumpus"
"Matilda emerges and throws herself between them. The Queen condemns Norfolk to death, and, in the aria, ""Bell'alme generose"", pardons Leicester and the Scottish prisoners. Notes Sources Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra Elisabetta, regina d'Inghilterra (; Elizabeth, Queen of England) is a ""dramma per musica"" or opera in two acts by Gioachino Rossini to a libretto by Giovanni Schmidt, from the play ""Il paggio di Leicester"" (""Leicester's Page"") by Carlo Federici, which itself ""was derived from a novel ""The Recess"" (1785) by Sophia Lee."" It was premiered at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples on 4 October 1815 and was the first"
"It."" The middle grouping of Shakespeare's plays begins in 1599 with ""Julius Caesar."" For the next few years, Shakespeare would produce his most famous dramas, including ""Macbeth,"" ""Hamlet,"" and ""King Lear."" The plays during this period are in many ways the darkest of Shakespeare's career and address issues such as betrayal, murder, lust, power and egoism. The final grouping of plays, called Shakespeare's late romances, include ""Pericles, Prince of Tyre"", ""Cymbeline"", ""The Winter's Tale"" and ""The Tempest"". The romances are so called because they bear similarities to medieval romance literature. Among the features of these plays are a redemptive plotline"
"status of the area surrounding the Blackfriars Theatre. The riots in the Midlands were caused by hunger because of the enclosure of common land. Shakespeare himself had been charged and fined several times for hoarding food stocks to sell at inflated prices For these reasons, R.B. Parker suggests ""late 1608 ... to early 1609"" as the likeliest date of composition, while Lee Bliss suggests composition by late 1608, and the first public performances in ""late December 1609 or February 1610"". Parker acknowledges that the evidence is ""scanty ... and mostly inferential"". The play was first published in the First Folio"
"Richard III (play) Richard III is a historical play by William Shakespeare believed to have been written around 1593. It depicts the Machiavellian rise to power and subsequent short reign of King Richard III of England. The play is grouped among the histories in the First Folio and is most often classified as such. Occasionally, however, as in the quarto edition, it is termed a tragedy. ""Richard III"" concludes Shakespeare's first tetralogy (also containing ""Henry VI"" parts 1–3). It is the second longest play in the canon after ""Hamlet"" and is the longest of the First Folio, whose version of"
"from ""Campaspe"" in his play ""Summer's Last Will and Testament"" (1592). Campaspe (play) Campaspe is an Elizabethan era stage play, a comedy by John Lyly. Widely considered Lyly's earliest drama, ""Campaspe"" was an influence and a precedent for much that followed in English Renaissance drama. ""Campaspe"" is known to have been performed at Court before Queen Elizabeth I, most likely on 1 January 1584 (new style); it was also acted at the first Blackfriars Theatre. The company that performed the play is open to question: extant records assign the Court performance to ""Oxford's boys,"" and the Blackfriars production to the"
"Wedding"" and ""Claricilla"" were successful stage plays. Of his last three works, ""Thomaso"" is a broad comedy based on Killigrew's experiences in European exile, while ""Bellamira"" and ""Cicillia"" are heroic romances—but all three are closet dramas, ten-act double plays never intended for the stage. Yet oddly enough, Aphra Behn adapted ""Thomaso"" for her successful ""The Rover"" (1677). The tragedy ""The Pilgrim,"" apparently never performed, borrows its plot from James Shirley's ""The Politician"" and reveals many allusions to Shakespeare. Some critics have considered ""The Parson's Wedding"" to be a Restoration play written before the Restoration, an anticipation of what was to"
"to be her brother Sebastian, and a girl named Olivia falls in love with Viola as Sebastian. She also goes to a restaurant named ""Cesario's"". Two of Duke's Illyria soccer teammates are named Andrew and Toby. A nod is given to the omitted subplot by naming a briefly-onscreen tarantula Malvolio. Sebastian’s ex-girlfriend Monique was given the surname Valentine, and the meddling Malcolm was given the surname Festes. ""Shakespeare in Love"" contains several references to ""Twelfth Night"". Near the end of the movie, Elizabeth I (Judi Dench) asks Shakespeare (Joseph Fiennes) to write a comedy for the Twelfth Night holiday. Shakespeare's"
"the same source used by Shakespeare. Shakespeare used Britain's mythical history in several of his plays, including ""King Lear"" and ""Cymbeline"", based on the stories of Leir of Britain and Cunobelinus, respectively. The play is essentially a pastiche of Shakespeare, with Vortigern serving as a Macbeth figure; other Shakespearean elements include the use of Holinshead and Flavia's cross-dressing. The play experienced a comedic revival by the Pembroke Players at the Pembroke College New Cellars, Cambridge, on November 19, 2008. The production was directed by Pembroke third-year Alexander Whiscombe, and starred David Harrap in the title role with Eystein Thanisch as"
"The Gondoliers The Gondoliers; or, The King of Barataria is a Savoy Opera, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It premiered at the Savoy Theatre on 7 December 1889 and ran for a very successful 554 performances (at that time the fifth longest-running piece of musical theatre in history), closing on 30 June 1891. This was the twelfth comic opera collaboration of fourteen between Gilbert and Sullivan. The story of the opera concerns the young bride of the heir to the throne of the fictional kingdom of Barataria who arrives in Venice to join her"
"belongs in the Shakespeare Apocrypha. The plot of the play is based on the biographical account of Walter Calverley of Calverley Hall, Yorkshire, who was executed on 5 August 1605 for murdering two of his children and stabbing his wife. The crimes were a well-known scandal of the day; a pamphlet on the case was issued in June 1605, with a ballad following in July. The chronicler John Stow reported the case in his ""Annals."" The murders were also dramatised in a play titled ""The Miseries of Enforced Marriage"" (1607), by George Wilkins. Scholars have disagreed on the relationship between"
"of the Second Triumvirate and the first emperor of the Roman Empire. The tragedy is mainly set in Rome and Egypt and is characterized by swift shifts in geographical location and linguistic register as it alternates between sensual, imaginative Alexandria and a more pragmatic, austere Rome. Many consider Shakespeare's Cleopatra, whom Enobarbus describes as having ""infinite variety"", as one of the most complex and fully developed female characters in the playwright's body of work. She is frequently vain and histrionic enough to provoke an audience almost to scorn; at the same time, Shakespeare invests her and Antony with tragic grandeur."