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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)
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1957), by William Inge; Death (1975), by Woody Allen; Death of a Salesman (1949), by Arthur Miller [1] The Death of Bessie Smith (1960), by Edward Albee; Death Tax (2012), by Lucas Hnath; Decade (2011), by Tony Kushner; Dedication or The Stuff of Dreams (2005), by Terrence McNally; Desire Under the Elms (1924 ...
Richard Wagner's Bayreuth Festival Theatre.. A wide range of movements existed in the theatrical culture of Europe and the United States in the 19th century. In the West, they include Romanticism, melodrama, the well-made plays of Scribe and Sardou, the farces of Feydeau, the problem plays of Naturalism and Realism, Wagner's operatic Gesamtkunstwerk, Gilbert and Sullivan's plays and operas ...
The Ramona Outdoor Play, commonly known as The Ramona Pageant, is America's longest-running outdoor drama, first performed on April 13, 1923, in Hemet, California. The play is based on Helen Hunt Jackson's 1884 novel "Ramona," which was written to expose the mistreatment of Native Americans in Southern California.
A significant factor in the favorable treatment that history plays received was the social function that commentators of the time believed that plays of this genre provided. For Thomas Nash and Thomas Heywood, for example, the English history play immortalized English heroes of the past and created a sense of national pride in audiences. [11]
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 ...
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