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The Merry Play between John John the Husband, Tib his Wife, and Sir John, the Priest is a Tudor era farcical comedic interlude written in 1520 and first published in 1533 by English playwright John Heywood. It relates the tale of a common Englishman who believes his wife to be cheating on him with the local priest.
John was the subject of an anonymous Elizabethan play, The Troublesome Reign of King John, in 1591. The play reflects the sympathetic view of King John during the English Reformation; it depicts John as "a fearless resister of the Papacy". [3] This play is believed by many Shakespeare scholars to have been a source for Shakespeare's play. [3]
King John and Matilda is a Caroline era stage play, a historical tragedy written by Robert Davenport. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It was initially published in 1655 ; the cast list included in the first edition provides valuable information on some of the actors of English Renaissance theatre .
The birthplace of John Rolfe, born c. 1585, remains unproven. At that time, the Spanish Empire held a virtual monopoly on the lucrative tobacco trade. Most Spanish colonies in the Americas were located in South America and the West Indies, which were more favorable to tobacco growth than their English counterparts (founded in the early 17th century, notably Jamestown in 1607).
The Malcontent is an early Jacobean stage play written by the dramatist and satirist John Marston ca. 1603. The play was one of Marston's most successful works. It is widely regarded as one of the most significant plays of the English Renaissance; an extensive body of scholarly research and critical commentary has accumulated around it. [1]
John Aprea, the actor who played John Stamos' character's father, Nick Katsopolis, on "Full House" and Salvatore Tessio in "The Godfather Part II" has died at 83.
The figure of the jovial friar was common in the May Games festivals of England and Scotland during the 15th to 17th centuries. [citation needed] He appears as a character in the fragment of a Robin Hood play from 1475, sometimes called Robin Hood and the Knight or Robin Hood and the Sheriff, and a play for the May games published in 1560 which tells a story similar to "Robin Hood and the ...
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