personages of the drama

  • 1The Beggar's Opera — is a ballad opera in three acts written in 1728 by John Gay. It is one of the watershed plays in Augustan drama and is the only example of the once thriving genre of satirical ballad opera to remain popular today. Ballad operas were satiric… …

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  • 2The Tragedy of Chabot, Admiral of France — is an early seventeenth century play, generally judged to be a work of George Chapman, later revised by James Shirley. The play is the last in Chapman s series of plays on contemporary French politics and history, which started with Bussy D… …

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  • 3The Murder on the Links —   Dust jacket il …

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  • 4The Devil's Charter — is an early Jacobean era stage play, a tragedy written by Barnabe Barnes. The play recounts the story of Pope Alexander VI.Date, performance, publication The Devil s Charter dates from 1607; it was acted by the King s Men at Court before King… …

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  • 5Domestic drama — expresses and focuses on the realistic everyday lives of middle or lower classes in a certain society, generally referring to the post Renaissance eras. According to the English Communications Syllabus, domestic drama refers to a dramatic story… …

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  • 6Liturgical drama — or religious drama, in its various Christian contexts, originates from the mass itself, and usually presents a relatively complex ritual that includes theatrical elements.In the Christian tradition, religious drama stemmed out of liturgy at the… …

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  • 7Master of the Revels — The Master of the Revels was a position within the English, and later the British, royal household heading the Revels Office or Office of the Revels that originally had responsibilities for overseeing royal festivities, known as revels, and later …

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  • 8Dante Alighieri and the Divine Comedy in popular culture — The life and works of Dante Alighieri, especially his masterpiece, the Divine Comedy, have been a source of inspiration for many artists for seven centuries. Some notable examples are listed below. Dante of Erminio Blotta, at Bd. Oroño, Rosario… …

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  • 9Kannada literature in the Vijayanagara Empire — refers to the body of literature composed in the Kannada language of South India during the ascendancy of the Vijayanagar Empire which lasted from the 14th through the 16th century. The Vijayanagara empire was established in 1336 by Harihara I… …

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  • 10dramatis personae — [L.] Characters (of the play), interlocutors (in the drama), personages of the drama …

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