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77 relations: A Trip to Scarborough, Adultery, Aesthetic interpretation, Aldwych Theatre, Alex Jennings, Amy Freed, Anne Bracegirdle, Anthony Aston, Anthony Quayle, Aristocracy, Audience, Backlash (sociology), Breeches role, Burlesque, Charles Gildon, Christopher Rich (theatre manager), Colley Cibber, Consummation, Cooperative, Cyril Ritchard, Donald Sinden, Dowry, Dublin, Edition (book), Elizabeth Barry, Fop, Gender, Gender role, George Powell (playwright), Glorious Revolution, Hildebrand Horden, Injunction, Jeremy Collier, John Moffatt (actor), John Russell Taylor, John Vanbrugh, John Verbruggen, Jonathan Freeman (actor), Lockout (industry), Lord Chamberlain, Love's Last Shift, Mary II of England, Mary Kent, Matchmaking, Mistress (lover), Musical theatre, Nantes, Olympic Theatre, Pamphlet, Patricia Routledge, ..., Paul Dehn, Poetic justice, Preface, Prologue, Puritans, Rake (stock character), Restoration (England), Restoration comedy, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Royal National Theatre, Seattle Repertory Theatre, Share (finance), Sharon Ott, Sheridan Morley, Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage, Stephen Caffrey, Subplot, Susanna Verbruggen, The Country Wife, The Provoked Wife, Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, Thomas Betterton, Thomas d'Urfey, Trevor Nunn, Trickster, Vice, William Wycherley. Expand index (27 more) »
A Trip to Scarborough
A Trip to Scarborough is an 18th-century play by Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816), first performed on 24 February 1777.
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Adultery
Adultery (from Latin adulterium) is extramarital sex that is considered objectionable on social, religious, moral, or legal grounds.
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Aesthetic interpretation
An interpretation in philosophy of art, is an explanation of the meaning of some work of art.
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Aldwych Theatre
The Aldwych Theatre is a West End theatre, located in Aldwych in the City of Westminster.
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Alex Jennings
Alex Jennings (born 10 May 1957) is an English actor, who has worked extensively with the Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre.
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Amy Freed
Amy Freed (born 1958) is an American playwright.
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Anne Bracegirdle
Anne Bracegirdle (c. 167112 September 1748) was an English actress.
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Anthony Aston
Anthony Aston (died 1731) was an English actor and dramatist.
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Anthony Quayle
Sir John Anthony Quayle, (7 September 1913 – 20 October 1989) was an English actor and theatre director.
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Aristocracy
Aristocracy (Greek ἀριστοκρατία aristokratía, from ἄριστος aristos "excellent", and κράτος kratos "power") is a form of government that places strength in the hands of a small, privileged ruling class.
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Audience
An audience is a group of people who participate in a show or encounter a work of art, literature (in which they are called "readers"), theatre, music (in which they are called "listeners"), video games (in which they are called "players"), or academics in any medium.
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Backlash (sociology)
A "backlash" is an adverse reaction to something which has gained popularity, prominence, or influence.
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Breeches role
A breeches role (also pants role or trouser role, travesti or "Hosenrolle") is a role in which an actress appears in male clothing.
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Burlesque
A burlesque is a literary, dramatic or musical work intended to cause laughter by caricaturing the manner or spirit of serious works, or by ludicrous treatment of their subjects.
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Charles Gildon
Charles Gildon (c. 1665 – 1 January 1724), was an English hack writer who was, by turns, a translator, biographer, essayist, playwright, poet, author of fictional letters, fabulist, short story author, and critic.
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Christopher Rich (theatre manager)
Christopher Rich (1657–1714) was a lawyer and theatrical manager in London in the late 17th and early 18th century.
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Colley Cibber
Colley Cibber (6 November 1671 – 11 December 1757) was an English actor-manager, playwright and Poet Laureate.
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Consummation
In many traditions and statutes of civil or religious law, the consummation of a marriage, often called simply consummation, is the first (or first officially credited) act of sexual intercourse between two people, either following their marriage to each other or after a prolonged romantic attraction.
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Cooperative
A cooperative (also known as co-operative, co-op, or coop) is "an autonomous association of persons united voluntarily to meet their common economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations through a jointly-owned and democratically-controlled enterprise".
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Cyril Ritchard
Cyril Joseph Trimnell-Ritchard (1 December 1898 – 18 December 1977), known professionally as Cyril Ritchard, was an Australian stage, screen and television actor, and director.
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Donald Sinden
Sir Donald Alfred Sinden, CBE, FRSA (9 October 1923 – 12 September 2014) was an English actor in theatre, film, television and radio as well as an author.
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Dowry
A dowry is a transfer of parental property, gifts or money at the marriage of a daughter.
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Dublin
Dublin is the capital of and largest city in Ireland.
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Edition (book)
The bibliographical definition of an edition includes all copies of a book printed “from substantially the same setting of type,” including all minor typographical variants.
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Elizabeth Barry
Elizabeth Barry (1658 – 7 November 1713) was an English actress of the Restoration period.
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Fop
Fop became a pejorative term for a foolish man excessively concerned with his appearance and clothes in 17th-century England.
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Gender
Gender is the range of characteristics pertaining to, and differentiating between, masculinity and femininity.
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Gender role
A gender role, also known as a sex role, is a social role encompassing a range of behaviors and attitudes that are generally considered acceptable, appropriate, or desirable for people based on their actual or perceived sex or sexuality.
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George Powell (playwright)
George Powell (1668? – 1714) was a 17th-century London actor and playwright who was a member of the United Company.
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Glorious Revolution
The Glorious Revolution, also called the Revolution of 1688, was the overthrow of King James II of England (James VII of Scotland) by a union of English Parliamentarians with the Dutch stadtholder William III, Prince of Orange, who was James's nephew and son-in-law.
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Hildebrand Horden
Hildebrand Horden (died 1696) was a London actor.
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Injunction
An injunction is an equitable remedy in the form of a court order that compels a party to do or refrain from specific acts.
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Jeremy Collier
Jeremy Collier (23 September 1650 – 26 April 1726) was an English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian.
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John Moffatt (actor)
Albert John Moffatt (24 September 1922 – 10 September 2012) was an English actor and playwright, known for his portrayal of Hercule Poirot on BBC Radio in twenty-five productions and for a wide range of stage roles in the West End from the 1950s to the 1980s.
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John Russell Taylor
John Russell Taylor (born 19 June 1935) is an English critic and author.
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John Vanbrugh
Sir John Vanbrugh (24 January 1664 (baptised) – 26 March 1726) was an English architect and dramatist, perhaps best known as the designer of Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard.
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John Verbruggen
John Baptista Verbruggen, d. 1708, was an English actor working in London.
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Jonathan Freeman (actor)
Jonathan Freeman (born February 5, 1950) is an American actor, voice actor, singer and puppeteer, known for puppetering and voicing Tito Swing in Shining Time Station and for voicing Jafar in Disney's ''Aladdin'' franchise, as well as the Kingdom Hearts franchise and the 2011 ''Aladdin'' Broadway musical.
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Lockout (industry)
A lockout is a temporary work stoppage or denial of employment initiated by the management of a company during a labor dispute.
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Lord Chamberlain
The Lord Chamberlain or Lord Chamberlain of the Household is the most senior officer of the Royal Household of the United Kingdom, supervising the departments which support and provide advice to the Sovereign of the United Kingdom while also acting as the main channel of communication between the Sovereign and the House of Lords.
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Love's Last Shift
Love's Last Shift, or The Fool in Fashion is an English Restoration comedy by Colley Cibber from 1696.
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Mary II of England
Mary II (30 April 1662 – 28 December 1694) was Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland, co-reigning with her husband and first cousin, King William III and II, from 1689 until her death; popular histories usually refer to their joint reign as that of William and Mary.
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Mary Kent
Mary Kent was an English actress, whose career lasted from 1692 to 1718, and the wife of Drury Lane actor Thomas Kent.
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Matchmaking
Matchmaking is the process of matching two or more people together, usually for the purpose of marriage, but the word is also used in the context of sporting events such as boxing, in business, in online video games and in pairing organ donors.
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Mistress (lover)
A mistress is a relatively long-term female lover and companion who is not married to her partner, especially when her partner is married to someone else.
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Musical theatre
Musical theatre is a form of theatrical performance that combines songs, spoken dialogue, acting and dance.
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Nantes
Nantes (Gallo: Naunnt or Nantt) is a city in western France on the Loire River, from the Atlantic coast.
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Olympic Theatre
The Olympic Theatre, sometimes known as the Royal Olympic Theatre, was a 19th century London theatre, opened in 1806 and located at the junction of Drury Lane, Wych Street and Newcastle Street.
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Pamphlet
A pamphlet is an unbound booklet (that is, without a hard cover or binding).
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Patricia Routledge
Dame Katherine Patricia Routledge, (--> born 17 February 1929) is an English actress and singer.
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Paul Dehn
Paul Dehn (pronounced “Dane”; 5 November 1912 – 30 September 1976) was a British screenwriter, best known for Goldfinger, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, Planet of the Apes sequels and Murder on the Orient Express.
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Poetic justice
Poetic justice is a literary device in which ultimately virtue is rewarded and viciousness is punished.
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Preface
A preface or proem is an introduction to a book or other literary work written by the work's author.
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Prologue
A prologue or prolog (from Greek πρόλογος prologos, from πρό pro, "before" and λόγος logos, "word") is an opening to a story that establishes the context and gives background details, often some earlier story that ties into the main one, and other miscellaneous information.
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Puritans
The Puritans were English Reformed Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to "purify" the Church of England from its "Catholic" practices, maintaining that the Church of England was only partially reformed.
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Rake (stock character)
In a historical context, a rake (short for rakehell, analogous to "hellraiser") was a man who was habituated to immoral conduct, particularly womanising.
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Restoration (England)
The Restoration of the English monarchy took place in the Stuart period.
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Restoration comedy
The term "Restoration comedy" refers to English comedies written and performed in the Restoration period from 1660 to 1710.
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Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan (30 October 17517 July 1816) was an Irish satirist, a playwright and poet, and long-term owner of the London Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
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Royal National Theatre
The Royal National Theatre in London, commonly known as the National Theatre (NT) is one of the United Kingdom's three most prominent publicly funded performing arts venues, alongside the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Royal Opera House.
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Seattle Repertory Theatre
Seattle Repertory Theatre (familiarly known as "The Rep") is a major regional theatre located in Seattle, Washington, at the Seattle Center.
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Share (finance)
In financial markets, a share is a unit used as mutual funds, limited partnerships, and real estate investment trusts.
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Sharon Ott
Sharon Ott (20th century) is a director, producer and educator who worked in regional theaters and opera throughout the United States.
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Sheridan Morley
Sheridan Morley (5 December 1941, Ascot, Berkshire − 16 February 2007, London) was an English author, biographer, critic and broadcaster.
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Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage
In March 1698, Jeremy Collier published his anti-theatre pamphlet, A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage; in the pamphlet, Collier attacks a number of playwrights: William Wycherley, John Dryden, William Congreve, John Vanbrugh, and Thomas D’Urfey.
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Stephen Caffrey
Stephen Caffrey (born in Dublin on 9 December 1975), is a former Irish footballer who has retired from League of Ireland First Division club Athlone Town.
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Subplot
In fiction, a subplot is a secondary strand of the plot that is a supporting side story for any story or the main plot.
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Susanna Verbruggen
Susanna Verbruggen (née Percival) (c. 1667–1703), aka Susanna Mountfort, was an English actress working in London.
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The Country Wife
The Country Wife is a Restoration comedy written in 1675 by William Wycherley.
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The Provoked Wife
The Provoked Wife (1697) is the second original comedy written by John Vanbrugh.
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Theatre Royal, Drury Lane
The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, commonly known as Drury Lane, is a West End theatre and Grade I listed building in Covent Garden, London, England.
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Thomas Betterton
Thomas Patrick Betterton (c. 1635 – 28 April 1710), the leading male actor and theatre manager during Restoration England, son of an under-cook to King Charles I, was born in London.
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Thomas d'Urfey
Thomas D'Urfey (a.k.a. Tom Durfey; 1653 – 26 February 1723) was an English writer and wit.
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Trevor Nunn
Sir Trevor Robert Nunn, CBE (born 14 January 1940) is an English theatre director.
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Trickster
In mythology, and in the study of folklore and religion, a trickster is a character in a story (god, goddess, spirit, man, woman, or anthropomorphisation), which exhibits a great degree of intellect or secret knowledge, and uses it to play tricks or otherwise disobey normal rules and conventional behaviour.
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Vice
Vice is a practice, behaviour, or habit generally considered immoral, sinful, criminal, rude, taboo, depraved, or degrading in the associated society.
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William Wycherley
William Wycherley (baptised 8 April 1641 – 1 January 1716) was an English dramatist of the Restoration period, best known for the plays The Country Wife and The Plain Dealer.
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