Faster access than browser!
25 relations: André Obey, Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay, George Peele, Gorboduc (play), Hamlet, Harlequinade, J. A. Cuddon, Masque, Melodrama, Morality play, Oxford Dictionary of English, Pantomime, Pericles, Prince of Tyre, Robert Greene (dramatist), Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Samuel Beckett, Story within a story, The Battle of Alcazar, The Old Wives' Tale (play), The Spanish Tragedy, Thomas Holcroft, Thomas Kyd, Tom Stoppard, Waiting for Godot, William Shakespeare.
André Obey
André Obey (8 May 1892 at Douai, France – 11 April 1975 at Montsoreau, near the Loire River) was a prominent French playwright during the inter-war years, and into the 1950s.
New!!: Dumbshow and André Obey · See more »
Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay
Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay, originally entitled The Honorable Historie of Frier Bacon and Frier Bongay, is an Elizabethan era stage play, a comedy written by Robert Greene.
New!!: Dumbshow and Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay · See more »
George Peele
George Peele (baptised 25 July 1556 – buried 9 November 1596) was an English translator, poet, and dramatist, who is most noted for his supposed but not universally accepted collaboration with William Shakespeare on the play Titus Andronicus.
New!!: Dumbshow and George Peele · See more »
Gorboduc (play)
The Tragedie of Gorboduc, also titled Ferrex and Porrex, is an English play from 1561.
New!!: Dumbshow and Gorboduc (play) · See more »
Hamlet
The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare at an uncertain date between 1599 and 1602.
New!!: Dumbshow and Hamlet · See more »
Harlequinade
Harlequinade is a British comic theatrical genre, defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as "that part of a pantomime in which the harlequin and clown play the principal parts".
New!!: Dumbshow and Harlequinade · See more »
J. A. Cuddon
John Anthony Bowden Cuddon (2 June 1928 – 12 March 1996), was an English author, dictionary writer, and school teacher.
New!!: Dumbshow and J. A. Cuddon · See more »
Masque
The masque was a form of festive courtly entertainment that flourished in 16th- and early 17th-century Europe, though it was developed earlier in Italy, in forms including the intermedio (a public version of the masque was the pageant).
New!!: Dumbshow and Masque · See more »
Melodrama
A melodrama is a dramatic work in which the plot, which is typically sensational and designed to appeal strongly to the emotions, takes precedence over detailed characterization.
New!!: Dumbshow and Melodrama · See more »
Morality play
The morality play is a genre of Medieval and early Tudor theatrical entertainment.
New!!: Dumbshow and Morality play · See more »
Oxford Dictionary of English
The Oxford Dictionary of English (ODE) is a single-volume English dictionary published by Oxford University Press, first published in 1998 as The New Oxford Dictionary of English (NODE).
New!!: Dumbshow and Oxford Dictionary of English · See more »
Pantomime
Pantomime (informally panto) is a type of musical comedy stage production designed for family entertainment.
New!!: Dumbshow and Pantomime · See more »
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
Pericles, Prince of Tyre is a Jacobean play written at least in part by William Shakespeare and included in modern editions of his collected works despite questions over its authorship, as it was not included in the First Folio.
New!!: Dumbshow and Pericles, Prince of Tyre · See more »
Robert Greene (dramatist)
Robert Greene (baptised 11 July 1558, died 3 September 1592) was an English author popular in his day, and now best known for a posthumous pamphlet attributed to him, Greenes, Groats-worth of Witte, bought with a million of Repentance, widely believed to contain an attack on William Shakespeare.
New!!: Dumbshow and Robert Greene (dramatist) · See more »
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, often referred to as just Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, is an absurdist, existential tragicomedy by Tom Stoppard, first staged at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1966.
New!!: Dumbshow and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead · See more »
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Barclay Beckett (13 April 1906 – 22 December 1989) was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, poet, and literary translator who lived in Paris for most of his adult life.
New!!: Dumbshow and Samuel Beckett · See more »
Story within a story
A story within a story is a literary device in which one character within a narrative narrates.
New!!: Dumbshow and Story within a story · See more »
The Battle of Alcazar
The Battle of Alcazar is a play attributed to George Peele, perhaps written no later than late 1591 if the play "Muly Molucco" mentioned in Henslowe's diary is this play (see below), and published anonymously in 1594, that tells the story of the battle of Alcácer Quibir in 1578.
New!!: Dumbshow and The Battle of Alcazar · See more »
The Old Wives' Tale (play)
The Old Wives' Tale is a play by George Peele first printed in England in 1595.
New!!: Dumbshow and The Old Wives' Tale (play) · See more »
The Spanish Tragedy
The Spanish Tragedy, or Hieronimo is Mad Again is an Elizabethan tragedy written by Thomas Kyd between 1582 and 1592.
New!!: Dumbshow and The Spanish Tragedy · See more »
Thomas Holcroft
Thomas Holcroft (10 December 1745 – 23 March 1809) was an English dramatist, miscellanist, poet and translator, sympathetic to the early ideas of the French Revolution.
New!!: Dumbshow and Thomas Holcroft · See more »
Thomas Kyd
Thomas Kyd (baptised 6 November 1558; buried 15 August 1594) was an English playwright, the author of The Spanish Tragedy, and one of the most important figures in the development of Elizabethan drama.
New!!: Dumbshow and Thomas Kyd · See more »
Tom Stoppard
Sir Tom Stoppard (born Tomáš Straussler; 3 July 1937) is a Czech-born British playwright and screenwriter.
New!!: Dumbshow and Tom Stoppard · See more »
Waiting for Godot
Waiting for Godot is a play by Samuel Beckett, in which two characters, Vladimir (Didi) and Estragon (Gogo), wait for the arrival of someone named Godot who never arrives, and while waiting they engage in a variety of discussions and encounter three other characters.
New!!: Dumbshow and Waiting for Godot · See more »
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare (26 April 1564 (baptised)—23 April 1616) was an English poet, playwright and actor, widely regarded as both the greatest writer in the English language, and the world's pre-eminent dramatist.
New!!: Dumbshow and William Shakespeare · See more »
Redirects here:
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumbshow
