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Drama

Formal type of literature intended for performance, where the text is written in the form of character lines and the author's remarks and is usually divided into acts and scenes

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  • How to die of embarrassment : by Bill Dunlop and Catch Theatre Co. : unofficial programme / Catch Theatre Co.
  • Wonderland Whitechapel Road (next St. Mary's Station) ... Whit Monday May 25th and during the week : Great attractions entire change ... Rabbi Joselman ... Mr. A. Broadhurst the surprise of the Chicago exhibition, with a beard over 7 feet long and a moustache 3 feet in length : Wonderful living freak of nature, the armless Midget Lady stands only 32 inches in height, born without hands or arms, and goes through a marvellous performance with her feet ...
  • The Terrence Higgins Trust present a unique staged reading of Safe Sex by Harvey Fierstein : at the Vaudeville Theatre, The Strand WC2, Sunday 16th December at 7.30 pm : includes High Profilactors!.
  • Friday, Jan. 19, farewell benefit of Mr. C. Freeman the American Giant! : and last night but one of his engagement ...
  • How to die of embarrassment : by Bill Dunlop and Catch Theatre Co. : unofficial programme / Catch Theatre Co.
  • [Theatre programme for performances at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London by Maskelyne & Cooke, the Royal illusionists and anti-spiritualists with 4 plays (one about quack doctors : Decapitation, or no cure, no pay) and a display of Chinese plate dancing. Advert for E. Rimmel's perfumes and choice novelties on the back].
  • Sheridan presented as Francisco Pizarro presented as a physician; representing his loyalty to the British Crown against the Franch Revolution and Bonaparte. Coloured aquatint, 1799.
  • [Theatre programme for performances at the Egyptian Hall, Piccadilly, London by Maskelyne & Cooke, the Royal illusionists and anti-spiritualists with 4 plays (one about quack doctors : Decapitation, or no cure, no pay) and a display of Chinese plate dancing. Advert for E. Rimmel's perfumes and choice novelties on the back].
  • Positively for this night only! : Surrey Theatre. This present Monday, the 12th of May, 1823, will be presented the highly-popular melo drama, taken from the play of the Mountaineers, Octavian, by a professional gentleman ... for this night only will be exhibited the two real esquimaux indians from the frozen regions where Captain Parry is making discoveries ...
  • A musical journey into the imagination... : Mike Batt's The Hunting of the Snark, the musical / Prince Edward Theatre ; painting by Patrick Woodroffe ; background graphics by Mike Batt.
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    The psychology of Hamlet : read at the meeting of the Psychological Society of Great Britain, May 1, 1879 / by Mr. Serjeant Cox.

    Cox, Edward W. (Edward William), 1809-1879. | Date: [1878]
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    The Shakespeare symphony : an introduction to the ethics of the Elizabethan drama / by Harold Bayley.

    Bayley, Harold. | Date: 1906
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    "With frenzied thoughts beset..." : depictions of female madness on the nineteenth-century English stage / by Susan M. Doran.

    Doran, Susan M. (Susan Margaret), 1953- | Date: 2001
    • Archives and manuscripts

    Bacon, Phanuel (1700-1783)

    Bacon, Phanuel, 1700-1783. | Date: mid-18th century | Reference: MS.1029
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    The days lengthen : by one hour and thirty-one minutes : hetero friendly comedy : Tristan Bates Theatre, 1a Tower Street London WC2 ...

    | Date: 2004
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