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  2. Category:Historical plays - Wikipedia

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  3. Category:Plays based on actual events - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Hastings (play) Battle of Tippecanoe Outdoor Drama; Becket; The Belle of Amherst; A Bequest to the Nation; Bhopal (play) The Black Prince (play) Black Watch (play) Blood at the Root (play) Bloody Poetry; Bloody Sunday: Scenes from the Saville Inquiry; Boesman and Lena; The Bomb (play) Bonduca; The Burning (play) Byzantium (play)

  4. List of coming-of-age stories - Wikipedia

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    The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, by Henry Fielding (1749) [2] The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman, by Laurence Sterne (1759) [2] Candide, by Voltaire (1759) Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen (1817) Oliver Twist, by Charles Dickens (1837–1839) Great Expectations, by Charles Dickens (1860–1861)

  5. List of plays adapted into feature films - Wikipedia

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    The History Boys (2004) Alan Bennett: The History Boys (2006) Nicholas Hytner: A Hole in the Head (1957) Arnold Schulman: A Hole in the Head (1959) Frank Capra: Holiday (1928) Philip Barry: Holiday (1930) Edward H. Griffith: Holiday (1938) George Cukor: I Am a Camera (1951) John Van Druten: I Am a Camera (1955) Henry Cornelius: Cabaret (1972 ...

  6. List of plays and musicals about the American Revolution

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    This is a list of plays and musicals about the American Revolution. Valley Forge -1934 play by Maxwell Anderson; Ben Franklin in Paris – 1964 musical by Sidney Michaels; 1776 – 1969 Broadway musical; Composed by Sherman Edwards; The Ruckus at Machias – 1976 play by Richard Sewell

  7. Shakespearean history - Wikipedia

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    The source for most of the English history plays, as well as for Macbeth and King Lear, is the well-known Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles of English history. The source for the Roman history plays is Plutarch's Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Compared Together, in the translation made by Sir Thomas North in 1579. Shakespeare's historical ...

  8. Lincoln (play) - Wikipedia

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    Lincoln is a historical play in four acts by the American actor and playwright Benjamin Chapin.Chapin was a celebrated Abraham Lincoln impersonator, and his play centered around three key events from the life of the American president: the 1861 defeat of Fort Sumter which initiated the American Civil War; the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863; and the last day of Lincoln's life prior to his ...

  9. List of William Shakespeare screen adaptations - Wikipedia

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    The Guinness Book of Records lists 410 feature-length film and TV versions of William Shakespeare ' s plays, making Shakespeare the most filmed author ever in any language. [1] [2] [3] As of November 2023, the Internet Movie Database lists Shakespeare as having writing credit on 1,800 films, including those under production but not yet released ...