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  2. 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)

  3. Shakespeare's plays - Wikipedia

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    For Shakespeare, as he began to write, both traditions were alive; they were, moreover, filtered through the recent success of the University Wits on the London stage. By the late 16th century, the popularity of morality and academic plays waned as the English Renaissance took hold, and playwrights like Thomas Kyd and Christopher Marlowe revolutionised theatre.

  4. Rudolf Steiner's Mystery Dramas - Wikipedia

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    Rudolf Steiner wrote four plays that follow the initiation journeys of a group of fictional characters through a series of lives. These plays were intended to be modern mystery plays. Steiner outlined the plot of a fifth play to be set at the Castalian spring at Delphi, but due to the outbreak of First World War, this remained an unfulfilled ...

  5. List of William Shakespeare screen adaptations - Wikipedia

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    Based on Stoppard's play of the same name, the film depicts two minor characters from Hamlet, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, who find themselves on the road to Elsinore Castle at the behest of the King of Denmark. They encounter a band of players before arriving to find that they are needed to try to discern what troubles the prince Hamlet ...

  6. Chronology of Shakespeare's plays - Wikipedia

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    Baldwin argues that the title of the play suggests it was a sequel to Love's Labour's Lost, which is partially supported by the unusually open-ended nature of that play (the main characters all vow to meet again in a year's time). But whether the play ever existed has been debated, with some critics speculating that it is simply another name ...

  7. Category:Plays based on novels - Wikipedia

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    The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial (play) Call Me by My Rightful Name; Calpurnia (play) Catch-22 (play) Children of the Ghetto (1899 play) Chimneys (play) A Christmas Carol; or, Past, Present, and Future; Colonel Newcome (play) The Corsican Brothers (play) The Countess of Salisbury (play) Crime and Punishment (play) The Crucifer of Blood

  8. List of American plays - Wikipedia

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    The Flying Machine: A One-Act Play for Three Men (1953), by Ray Bradbury; Fools (1981), by Neil Simon; Fortitude (1968), by Kurt Vonnegut; Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune (1982), by Terrence McNally; The Frog Prince (1982), by David Mamet; The Front Page (1928), by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur; Fugitive Kind (1937), by Tennessee Williams

  9. The Crucible - Wikipedia

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    (The character is based on a real person of the same name, who was also pressed when he would not plead guilty to charges of witchcraft.) Rebecca Nurse Although an elderly, respected member of the community, she is sentenced to death on charges of witchcraft (and, in the play, infanticide ).