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    The London Prodigal is an English Renaissance play, most notable for its inclusion among among the Shakespeare apocrypha. A city comedy set in London...
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    The Parable of the Prodigal Son (also known as the parable of the Two Brothers, Lost Son, Loving Father, or of the Forgiving Father) is one of the parables...
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    The London Prodigal and A Yorkshire Tragedy – Both plays were published in quarto as works of Shakespeare, in 1605 and 1608, and were included in the...
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    In the First Folio, the plays of William Shakespeare were grouped into three categories: comedies, histories, and tragedies; and modern scholars recognise...
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  • have had a hand in the bad quartos of Hamlet and The London Prodigal, in which the clown parts are unusually accurate. Whatever the reason for his departure...
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    based on real figures throughout the history of England, they were classified as "histories" in the First Folio. The Roman tragedies—Julius Caesar, Antony...
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    eventually widely accepted into the Shakespearean canon. The quartos of Pericles (1609 and 1611), The London Prodigal (1605) and A Yorkshire Tragedy (1608)...
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    (1574), by John Higgins; The Malcontent (1604), by John Marston; The London Prodigal (1605); Montaigne's Essays, which were translated into English by John...
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    The Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare. It was built in 1599 at Southwark, close to the south bank of the Thames...
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    of London (1590). Holinshed's Chronicles (1587) contributed greatly to the plays of Shakespeare's Henriad, and also advanced the development of the English...
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    Ben Jonson (category People educated at Westminster School, London)
    sceptical about Jonson's presence in the play. A few attributions of anonymous plays, such as The London Prodigal, have been ventured by individual researchers...
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    took credit as writers on "Prodigal Son", a cover of Robert Wilkins's Biblical blues song. Celebrating the completion of the album, Jagger held a party...
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    Doctrine of Nature (London, 1949) Leggatt, Alexander, Shakespeare's Political Drama: The History Plays and the Roman Plays (London 1988) Spencer, T. J...
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    Love's Labour's Lost. It was written when the London theatres were closed for a time due to the plague. The poem begins with a brief dedication to Henry...
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  • The Star Trek franchise, begun in 1966, has frequently included stories inspired by and alluding to the works of William Shakespeare. The science fiction...
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    Gordon McMullan, ed. Henry VIII (London: Thomson, 2000), pp. 57–60. The Yale Shakespeare The Yale Shakespere Gurr, Andrew. The Shakespearean Stage 1574–1642...
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    Carlyle, Thomas (1840). "The Hero as Poet. Dante; Shakespeare". On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History. London: Chapman and Hall. pp. 73–106...
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    20 productions a year. The RSC plays regularly in London, Stratford-upon-Avon, and on tour across the UK and internationally. The company's home is in Stratford-upon-Avon...
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    Fortunatus (1599) The Shoemaker's Holiday (1599) Lust's Dominion (1600) Satiromastix (1601) Blurt, Master Constable (1601–02) The London Prodigal (1603) Patient...
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  • The Prodigal Stranger is the tenth studio album by Procol Harum, released in 1991. Recorded after a 14-year break, it met with an underwhelming response...
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    (lost) Love's Labour's Won (lost) The Birth of Merlin Locrine The London Prodigal The Puritan The Second Maiden's Tragedy Double Falsehood Thomas of Woodstock...
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  • No copy of the play, dated by scholars to the second half of 1587, survives today. The play was staged in London, more specifically at The Theatre in...
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    The Theatre was an Elizabethan playhouse in Shoreditch (in Curtain Road, part of the modern London Borough of Hackney), just outside the City of London...
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  • including The Contention Between Liberality and Prodigality (printed 1601) and The London Prodigal (1605). Jonson also re-used some material from his...
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    as Jack London, was an American novelist, journalist and activist. A pioneer of commercial fiction and American magazines, he was one of the first American...
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    Folger Shakespeare Library (category Libraries on the National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C.)
    The Folger Shakespeare Library is an independent research library on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., United States. It has the world's largest collection...
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    site McHardie, Allan, Elizabeth, Andrew (1885). The Prodigal Continent and her Prodigal Son. London: Morgan & Scott.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple...
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    ISBN 0-300-00605-5. Johnson, Samuel (1973), Wain, John (ed.), Johnson as Critic, London: Routledge, ISBN 0-7100-7564-2. Johnson, Samuel (1765), Mr. Johnson's Preface...
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  • guide to the works of the celebrated English writer William Shakespeare. The numerous maps were drafted by the artist Rafael Palacios. The work gives...
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  • in the bibliographic or scholarly study of texts of dramatic literature, is a term for an inadvertent error committed by the playwright in the act of...
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