"might be accepted by readers with no vested interest in the issue, it would be ""vehemently rejected out of hand"" by the ""literary establishment"". Sadownick wrote that Lauritsen confirmed his view that ""Frankenstein"" is a gay work in the same sense as Walt Whitman's ""Leaves of Grass"" (1855) and Oscar Wilde's ""The Ballad of Reading Gaol"" (1897), and offered a commendable psychological analysis, and a sensitive line-by-line reading, of the work. Charles E. Robinson rejected Lauritsen's thesis in ""The Original Frankenstein"" (2008), arguing that the testimony of authors such as Lord Byron, William Godwin, Claire Clairmont, Charles Clairmont, and Leigh"
"Canterbury Tales (musical) Canterbury Tales is a musical originally presented at the Oxford Playhouse in 1964, conceived and directed by Martin Starkie and written by Nevill Coghill and Martin Starkie. It was expanded into a full length musical and presented at the Phoenix Theatre, London on 21 March 1968 and ran for 2,080 performances. The music was written by Richard Hill and John Hawkins, with the lyrics by Nevill Coghill. There are two versions of this musical (""Canterbury Tales"" and ""More Canterbury Tales""), each making up about half the story. Martin Starkie was the first person to dramatise Chaucer's 'The"
"Tilly of Bloomsbury (play) Tilly of Bloomsbury is a 1919 British comedic play written by Ian Hay. It is heavily influenced by the story of Cinderella and concerns a young woman from Bloomsbury in London, Tilly Wellwyn who falls in love with a wealthy aristocrat. Despite her poor background, she tries to pretend she is also from a noble background - attempting to fool his family also. She succeeds in this at first, but her attempts to make her own family pretend to be upper-class ultimately leads to the exposure of her ploy. The play was adapted as a film"
"George Walter Thornbury George Walter Thornbury (13 November 1828 – 11 June 1876) was an English author. George Thornbury was born on 13 November 1828, the son of a London solicitor, reared by his aunt and educated by her husband, Reverend Barton Bouchier. A journalist by profession, he also wrote verse, novels, art criticism and popular historical and topographical sketches. He began his career in 1845 with contributions to ""Bristol Journal"" and wrote later mainly for the ""Athenaeum"". His first major work was ""Lays and legends of the New World"" (1851). It followed a history of the Buccaneers, ""Monarchs of"
"his ringing tones: ""No-No! Nonsense, absolute nonsense: I would have known"". A number of theories have also been put forward to explain the derivation of Bunbury, and Bunburying, which are used in the play to imply a secretive double life. It may have derived from Henry Shirley Bunbury, a hypochondriacal acquaintance of Wilde's youth. Another suggestion, put forward in 1913 by Aleister Crowley, who knew Wilde, was that Bunbury was a combination word: that Wilde had once taken a train to Banbury, met a schoolboy there, and arranged a second secret meeting with him at Sunbury. Bunburying is a stratagem"
"the ""Trionfi"" of Petrarch, the novels of Giovanni Boccaccio and Matteo Bandello (sometimes through English translations and adaptations, as in ""The Palace of Pleasure"" by William Painter), and ""The Franklin's Tale"" in ""The Canterbury Tales"" of Geoffrey Chaucer. The four ""triumphs"" in ""Four Plays in One"" show a strong influence from the morality plays of the later Middle Ages, combined with influences from the Jacobean masque and the pageants and processions that were an important part of public life in Jacobean England. This combination of influences from morality play and masque makes ""Four Plays in One"" a highly unusual work"
"three times in 1921 by Rex Wilson, 1931 by Jack Raymond and 1940 by Leslie S. Hiscott. Tilly of Bloomsbury (play) Tilly of Bloomsbury is a 1919 British comedic play written by Ian Hay. It is heavily influenced by the story of Cinderella and concerns a young woman from Bloomsbury in London, Tilly Wellwyn who falls in love with a wealthy aristocrat. Despite her poor background, she tries to pretend she is also from a noble background - attempting to fool his family also. She succeeds in this at first, but her attempts to make her own family pretend to"
"as Geoffrey Chaucer's ""Canterbury Tales"" (1387), Miguel de Cervantes' ""Don Quixote"" (1605), William Shakespeare's ""Pericles, Prince of Tyre"" (c.1608), Laurence Sterne's ""The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman"" (1759), William Makepeace Thackeray's ""Vanity Fair"" (1847), as well as more recent works such as J.R.R. Tolkien's ""The Lord of the Rings"" (1954–1955), or Douglas Adams' ""The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"" (1979). Metafiction, however, became particularly prominent in the 1960s, with authors and works such as John Barth's ""Lost in the Funhouse"", Robert Coover's ""The Babysitter"" and ""The Magic Poker"", Kurt Vonnegut's ""Slaughterhouse-Five"", John Fowles' ""The French Lieutenant's Woman"", Thomas"
"Mankind (play) Mankind is an English medieval morality play, written . The play is a moral allegory about Mankind, a representative of the human race, and follows his fall into sin and his repentance. Its author is unknown; the manuscript is signed by a monk named Hyngham, believed to have transcribed the play. ""Mankind"" is unique among moralities for its surprising juxtaposition of serious theological matters and colloquial (sometimes obscene) dialogue. Along with the morality plays ""Wisdom"" and ""The Castle of Perseverance"", ""Mankind"" belongs to the collection of the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C. as a part of the"
"researcher has ascribed it to Munday, or Chettle, or both. An early Robin Hood play, author unknown, was printed in 1560. An anonymous ""Robin Hood and Little John"" (1594) has not survived. William Haughton worked on a ""Robin Hood's Pennyworths"" around 1600, but apparently left it unfinished. In turn, Robert Davenport based his later play ""King John and Matilda"" (published 1655) securely on ""The Death."" Some critics have called Davenport's play a mere rewriting of Munday's. During the Restoration, a drama titled ""Robin Hood and His Crew of Soldiers"" was acted at Nottingham on the day of King Charles II's"
"Butterfly"", ""Spring Awakening"", and ""The Book of Mormon"". The Glencairn Plays, all of which feature characters on the fictional ship ""Glencairn""—filmed together as ""The Long Voyage Home"": Other one-act plays include: Eugene O'Neill Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (October 16, 1888 – November 27, 1953) was an American playwright and Nobel laureate in Literature. His poetically titled plays were among the first to introduce into U.S. drama techniques of realism earlier associated with Russian playwright Anton Chekhov, Norwegian playwright Henrik Ibsen, and Swedish playwright August Strindberg. The drama ""Long Day's Journey into Night"" is often numbered on the short list of the"
"Duncan in ""Holinshed's Chronicles"" (1587), a history of England, Scotland, and Ireland familiar to Shakespeare and his contemporaries, although the events in the play differ extensively from the history of the real Macbeth. The events of the tragedy are usually associated with the execution of Henry Garnet for complicity in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605. In the backstage world of theatre, some believe that the play is cursed, and will not mention its title aloud, referring to it instead as ""The Scottish Play"". Over the course of many centuries, the play has attracted some of the most renowned actors to"
"and the similarly titled choral setting by Ross Lee Finney. Another American adaptation was Seymour Barab's comic opera ""Chanticleer"". In the UK Michael Hurd set the tale as ""Rooster Rag"", a pop cantata for children (1976). A full-length musical stage adaptation of ""The Canterbury Tales"", composed of the Prologue, Epilogue, ""The Nun's Priest's Tale"", and four other tales, was presented at the Phoenix Theatre, London on 21 March 1968, with music by Richard Hill & John Hawkins, lyrics by Nevill Coghill, and original concept, book, and direction by Martin Starkie. The ""Nun's Priest's Tale"" section was excluded from the original"
"The Downfall and The Death of Robert Earl of Huntington The Downfall of Robert Earl of Huntington and The Death of Robert Earl of Huntington are two closely related Elizabethan-era stage plays on the Robin Hood legend, that were written by Anthony Munday (possibly with help from Henry Chettle) in 1598 and published in 1601. They are among the relatively few surviving examples of the popular drama acted by the Admiral's Men during the Shakespearean era. Scholars and critics have studied the plays for their place in the evolution of the Robin Hood legend. Munday has been credited as the"
"The Canterbury Pilgrims The Canterbury Pilgrims is an opera by the American composer Reginald De Koven. It premiered at the Metropolitan Opera House on March 8, 1917. The libretto, written by Percy MacKaye, is loosely based on Geoffrey Chaucer's ""The Canterbury Tales"". Place: England. Time: April, 1387. The story has to do with the merry schemes of the Wife of Bath, who has fallen in love with Chaucer who in his turn loves the Prioress, and of her winning of a bet to gain possession of a certain brooch which carries with it Chaucer's promise of marriage. He is finally"
"Geoffrey Chaucer's pilgrims set off on their journey in ""The Canterbury Tales"". Just west of the Bridge was the Liberty of the Clink manor, which was never controlled by the City, but was held under the Bishopric of Winchester's nominal authority. This area therefore became the entertainment district for London, with attractions such as bull and bear-baiting. It also hosted a concentration of brothels.. In 1587, Southwark's first playhouse theatre, The Rose, opened. The Rose was set up by Philip Henslowe, and soon became a popular place of entertainment for all classes of Londoners. Both Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare,"
"Doonesbury (musical) Doonesbury, also known as Doonesbury: A Musical Comedy, is a musical with a book and lyrics by Garry Trudeau and music by Elizabeth Swados. Based on Trudeau's comic strip of the same name, it served to change the format of the strip from an episodic satire of college campus life that existed on a floating timeline to a more character driven, serialized political cartoon series in which characters changed, aged, and died, while still retaining a satirical political bent. Notably, the play depicts the core cast of characters—perpetually twenty-something undergraduates for the first twelve years of the strip's"
"Superstition (play) The Tragedy of Superstition; or, the Fanatic Father, is a straight play by James Nelson Barker set in a Puritan village in Colonial America, specifically in ""New England, about the year 1675."" Although feeling much like a melodrama, Barker himself identifies the play as a tragedy in the title. Barker tells in his preface to the play that main incidents of the play are said to have actually occurred in New England in the late 1600s. The play revolves around the hero Charles and the villain Reverend Ravensworth. Ravensworth persecutes Charles and his mother on the claims that"
"Canterbury Tales"" to a cross section of people, all snow-sports enthusiasts but from different social backgrounds, converging on a remote back-country ski cabin in British Columbia in the 2011 novel ""The Canterbury Trail"". ""The Two Noble Kinsmen"", by William Shakespeare and John Fletcher, a retelling of ""The Knight's Tale"", was first performed in 1613 or 1614 and published in 1634. In 1961, Erik Chisholm completed his opera, ""The Canterbury Tales"". The opera is in three acts: The Wyf of Bath’s Tale, The Pardoner’s Tale and The Nun’s Priest’s Tale. Nevill Coghill's modern English version formed the basis of a musical"
"Morality Play (novel) Morality Play is a semi-historical detective novel by Barry Unsworth. The book, published in 1995 by Hamish Hamilton was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. The book is set in Medieval England sometime near the end of the 14th century and the events described in the book take place in an unnamed village in Northern England (north of the Humber). A priest fleeing from his diocese joins a group of travelling players. The players are travelling toward their liege lord's castle where they are expected to play at Christmas but, short of money, they decide to stage"
"The Dybbuk (film) The Dybbuk (, ""Der Dibuk""; ) is a 1937 Yiddish-language Polish fantasy drama directed by Michał Waszyński. It is based on the play ""The Dybbuk"" by S. Ansky. ""The Dybbuk, or Between Two Worlds"" (""""; ""Der Dibuk, oder Tsvishn Tsvey Veltn"") is a 1914 play by S. Ansky, relating the story of a young bride possessed by a dybbuk – a malicious possessing spirit, believed to be the dislocated soul of a dead person – on the eve of her wedding. ""The Dybbuk"" is considered a seminal play in the history of Jewish theatre, and played an"
"Canterbury Tales' for the stage since it was written over 600 years ago. By working closely with Nevill Coghill and using a celebrated modern English translation of Chaucer's work, Starkie ensured that the completed text is a convincing interpretation of Chaucer's work It was considered to be very bawdy, and was written soon after the Lord Chamberlain's censorship of the theatre had just ended. The musical took five tales from the Canterbury Tales and told them with song and humour. These were; The Miller's Tale; The Nun's Priest's Tale; The Steward's Tale; The Merchant's Tale; and The Wife of Bath's"
"Cornbury wearing a dress. Professor Bonomi suggested that the subject was not Cornbury. However, other art historians have remained unconvinced. The Dallas Museum of Art has a different portrait of unknown provenance also ascribed to be “""Lord Cornbury in a Dress,""” painted sometime between 1705 and 1750. ""Androboros"" [“man-eater” in corrupted Greek], a play by Robert Hunter, Cornbury’s successor as Governor of New York (1710–1719) was a satire that ridiculed prominent New York citizens, including Lord Cornbury (as “Lord Oinobaros” [“heavy with wine”]). Crossdressing was a central theme in the play. It was one of the first plays written &"
"as Mrs Fulverton-Fane, Ian Fleming as Arthur Ludgrove, and Arthur Young as Edward Carter. The Fourth Wall (Milne play) The Fourth Wall is a mystery play by the British writer A.A. Milne. It was first staged at the Haymarket Theatre in 1928. Under the name, The Perfect Alibi, it was produced at the Charles Hopkins Theatre on Broadway from November 1928 through July 1929. In 1930 the play was adapted for the film ""Birds of Prey"" directed by Basil Dean. In 1949 it was adapted by BBC television as a ninety-minute drama called ""The Perfect Alibi"" and was first broadcast"
"came to an end. • Chaucer • Clerk of Oxford • Host • The Miller • Nun • Prioress • Squire • Steward • Sweetheart • The Wife of Bath • Alisoun • Cook • Friar • Knight • May • Merchant • Molly • Pardoner • Priest • Robin • Summoner Canterbury Tales (musical) Canterbury Tales is a musical originally presented at the Oxford Playhouse in 1964, conceived and directed by Martin Starkie and written by Nevill Coghill and Martin Starkie. It was expanded into a full length musical and presented at the Phoenix Theatre, London on 21 March"
"Broadway (play) Broadway is a 1926 Broadway play produced by Jed Harris and written and directed by George Abbott and Philip Dunning. It was Abbott's first big hit on his way to becoming ""the most famous play doctor of all time"" after he ""rejiggered"" Dunning's play. The crime drama used ""contemporary street slang and a hard-boiled, realistic atmosphere"" to depict the New York City underworld during Prohibition. It opened on September 16, 1926, at the Broadhurst Theatre and was one of the venue's greatest hits, running for 603 performances. Written and directed by Philip Dunning and George Abbott, and produced"
"The Dybbuk The Dybbuk"", or ""Between Two Worlds (, trans. ""Mezh dvukh mirov [Dibuk]""; , ""Tsvishn Tsvey Veltn – der Dibuk"") is a play by S. Ansky, authored between 1913 and 1916. It was originally written in Russian and later translated into Yiddish by Ansky himself. ""The Dybbuk"" had its world premiere in that language, performed by the Vilna Troupe at Warsaw in 1920. A Hebrew version was prepared by Hayim Nahman Bialik and staged in Moscow at Habima Theater in 1922. The play, which depicts the possession of a young woman by the malicious spirit – known as ""Dybbuk"""
"Henry Bunbury (caricaturist) Henry William Bunbury (1750 – 7 May 1811) was an English caricaturist. The second son of Sir William Bunbury, 5th Baronet (see Bunbury baronets), of Mildenhall, Suffolk, he came of an old Norman family. He was educated at Westminster School and St Catharine's College, Cambridge, and soon showed a talent for drawing, especially for humorous subjects. His more serious efforts were no great success, but his caricatures are as famous as those of his contemporaries Thomas Rowlandson and James Gillray, good examples being his ""Country Club"" (1788), ""Barber's Shop"" (1803) and ""A Long Story"" (1782). He was"
"Gurnett<br>George Byron – James Aubrey<br>Dr William Polidori – William Gaminara<br>Harriet Westbrook – Sue Burton The play played at the Manhattan Theatre Club in 1987 in a production directed by Lynne Meadow and was revived in 1988 at the Royal Court Theatre and in 2007 at the Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff. The play was staged by emerging company Invulnerable Nothings at The Brooklyn Art Library in 2016. Bloody Poetry Bloody Poetry is a 1984 play by Howard Brenton centring on the lives of Percy Shelley and his circle. The play had its roots in Brenton's involvement with the small touring company"
"The Digby Conversion of Saint Paul The Digby Conversion of Saint Paul (or The Conuersyon of Seynt Paule) is a Middle English miracle play of the late fifteenth century. Written in rhyme royal, it is about the conversion of Paul the Apostle. It is part of a collection of mystery plays that was bequeathed to the Bodleian Library by Sir Kenelm Digby in 1634. The action is in three well-defined parts, often, following medieval practice, referred to as ""stations"". Each of these stations is introduced and concluded by ""Poeta"" (Latin for poet). The first station represents Jerusalem. After the prologue"
"main players are given in the following order: Richard Burbage, Augustine Phillips, John Heminges, Henry Condell, Thomas Pope, William Sly, Christopher Beeston, William Kempe, and John Duke. (Kempe would leave the company the next year, for his famous morris dance from London to Norwich.) In 1599, Jonson wrote what would prove to be a much less popular sequel, ""Every Man out of His Humour"". The play was revived around 1670; Sackville provided a verse epilogue in which Jonson himself appeared as a ghost. David Garrick brought a revised version to the stage in 1751; the changes he made served chiefly"
"and ran for 155 performances in the West End. Frederick Lonsdale Frederick Lonsdale (5 February 1881 – 4 April 1954) was an English playwright known for his librettos to several successful musicals early in the 20th century, including ""King of Cadonia"" (1908), ""The Balkan Princess"" (1910), ""Betty"" (1915), ""The Maid of the Mountains"" (1917), ""Monsieur Beaucaire"" (1919) and ""Madame Pompadour"" (1923). He also wrote comedy plays, including ""The Last of Mrs. Cheyney"" (1925) and ""On Approval"" (1927) and the murder melodrama ""But for the Grace of God"" (1946). Some of his plays and musicals were made into films, and he"
"Pandosto Pandosto: The Triumph of Time is a prose romance written by the English author Robert Greene, first published in 1588. A later edition of 1607 was re-titled ""Dorastus and Fawnia"". Popular during the time of William Shakespeare, the work's plot was an inspiration for that of Shakespeare's play ""The Winter's Tale"". Greene, in turn, may have based the work on ""The Clerk's Tale"", one of ""The Canterbury Tales"" of Chaucer. Edward Chaney suggested that Robert Greene when writing ""Pandosto"" may have had in mind the Earl of Oxford's suspicions about the paternity of his daughter (granddaughter of Lord Burghley)"