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41The Puritan — The Puritan, or the Widow of Watling Street is an anonymous Jacobean stage comedy, first published in 1607. It is often attributed to Thomas Middleton, but also belongs to the Shakespeare Apocrypha due to its title page attribution to W.S. .Date… …
42The Pirates of Penzance — The Pirates of Penzance, or The Slave of Duty, is a comic opera in two acts, with music by Arthur Sullivan and libretto by W. S. Gilbert. It is one of the Savoy Operas. The opera s official premiere was at the Fifth Avenue Theatre in New York… …
43The Mask of Orpheus — is an opera with music by Harrison Birtwistle and a libretto by Peter Zinovieff. It was premiered in London on May 21, 1986 to great critical acclaim. A recorded version conducted by Andrew Davis has also received good reviews. The work is around …
44The Rover (play) — The Rover or The Banish d Cavaliers is a play in two parts written by the English author Aphra Behn. It was a very popular Restoration comedy. Behn had famously worked as a spy for Charles II against the Dutch. However, Charles was slow to pay… …
45The Knot Garden — is an opera in three acts by Michael Tippett to an original English libretto by the composer. The work had its first performance at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, on December 2, 1970 conducted by Sir Colin Davis and produced by Sir Peter… …
46The Battle of Alcazar — is a play by George Peele, probably written and first staged in the late 1580s, published in 1594.Likely allusions to the Spanish Armada in the play appear to limit its earliest possible date. The primary historical source for the play, John… …
47The Fair Penitent — is Nicholas Rowe s stage adaptation of the tragedy The Fatal Dowry, the Philip Massinger and Nathan Field collaboration first published in 1632. Rowe s adaptation, premiered onstage in 1702 and first published in 1703, was an enormous popular… …
48The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus — Theatrical release poster Directed by Terry Gilliam …
49The Cloggies — The Cloggies, an Everyday Saga in the Life of Clog Dancing Folk was a long running cartoon by Bill Tidy which ran in the satirical magazine Private Eye from 1967 to 1981, and later in The Listener from 1985 to 1986. It gently satirised northern… …
50The Second Maiden's Tragedy — is a Jacobean play that survives only in manuscript. It was written in 1611, and performed in the same year by the King s Men. The manuscript that survives is the copy that was sent to the censor, and therefore includes his notes and deletions.… …
