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    The 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...
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  • plot of The Second Maiden’s Tragedy begins with "the Tyrant" overthrowing the previous king, Giovanus, and attempting to seduce Giovanus' wife, "the Lady"...
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  • extraction a character in The Second Maiden's Tragedy 6972 Helvetius, a main-belt asteroid, discovered in 1992 Helvetia, the national personification of...
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    Shakespearean tragedy is the designation given to most tragedies written by playwright William Shakespeare. Many of his history plays share the qualifiers...
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    On the rare occasions when The Second Maiden's Tragedy has been revived on the stage, it is sometimes performed under the title Cardenio, as in the 2002...
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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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  • character in The Second Maiden's Tragedy Ansel (disambiguation) and Ansell (disambiguation), the German form of the name Anselmo (disambiguation), the Italian...
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    William; Hamilton, Charles; Fletcher, John (1994). Cardenio, Or, the Second Maiden's Tragedy. Glenbridge. ISBN 0-944435-24-6. Ioppolo, Grace (2010). "Early...
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    Labour's Won (lost) The Birth of Merlin Locrine The London Prodigal The Puritan The Second Maiden's Tragedy Double Falsehood Thomas of Woodstock Sir John...
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    history, while going beyond the English chronicle play; they include some of Shakespeare's greatest writing. They are not tragedies, but as history plays they...
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    written by the English poet, playwright, and actor William Shakespeare. The exact number of plays as well as their classifications as tragedy, history,...
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    India. 21 February 2014. Archived from the original on 10 December 2014. Cardenio, Or, the Second Maiden's Tragedy, pp. 131–3: By William Shakespeare, Charles...
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    Shakespeare's playing company, the Lord Chamberlain's Men. It was destroyed by fire on 29 June 1613. A second Globe Theatre was built on the same site by June 1614...
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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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  • comments by Pope Benedict XVI concerning Islam a character in The Second Maiden's Tragedy Megalophota leonella, a snout moth species found in Sierra Leone...
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    in 1593. It is probably Shakespeare's first publication. The poem tells the story of Venus, the goddess of Love; of her unrequited love; and of her attempted...
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    critics. The play's date of origin is not known with certainty. In 1611, Sir George Buck, the Master of the Revels, named The Second Maiden's Tragedy based...
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    Thomas Middleton (category Alumni of The Queen's College, Oxford)
    (co-written with Dekker) The Roaring Girl (1611) (co-written with Dekker) No Wit, No Help Like a Woman's (1611) The Second Maiden's Tragedy (1611) A Chaste Maid...
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  • dated 4 May 1605. In 1611 he played the Usurping Tyrant in the ‘Second Maiden's Tragedy.’ If he had been 11 in his first role as Aspatia, and had played Juliet...
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    (1998). The Tragedy of Macbeth. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 57. ISBN 0-19-283417-7. "Othello". Draper, John W. "The Date of Romeo and Juliet." The Review...
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    a dispute with the landlord, the theatre was dismantled and the timbers used in the construction of the Globe Theatre on Bankside. The Mayor and Corporation...
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  • Shakespeare's tragedy or it may be an early version of that play; the First Quarto in particular is thought perhaps to have been influenced by the Ur-Hamlet...
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  • organizes the plays not in the usual way – as tragedies, comedies, and histories – but regionally, as follows: Greek Roman Italian English The last two...
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    director also proposed the acquisition of a second theatre, in London, to be used as a city outlet for selected Stratford productions. The RSC was formally...
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  • 1611 in literature (category Years of the 17th century in literature)
    (attributed to) – The Second Maiden's Tragedy Anthony Munday – Chryso-Thriambos William Shakespeare The Winter's Tale (probable date) The Tempest (consensus...
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    called "word-music". He also declared, "Nobody will ever write a better tragedy than Lear". However, he also wrote in a letter to Mrs Patrick Campbell...
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  • Tale and The Tempest. Their connection with The Second Maiden's Tragedy also dates from this period; the manuscript of that play reveals that Robert Gough...
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    George Chapman (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    Fashions, and The Second Maiden's Tragedy. Of these, only 'Sir Gyles Goosecap' is generally accepted by scholars to have been written by Chapman (The Plays of...
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    author of the Miscellaneous Observations on the Tragedy of Macbeth. In response, Jacob Tonson and his associates, who controlled the copyright of the current...
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    from the most experienced American and Spanish bull-runners. Fiske-Harrison's acting debut was as Govianus in The Second Maiden's Tragedy at the Hackney...
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