Court Theatre

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Connections Author name Excerpt
Performance of text John Galsworthy
JG 's first play, The Silver Box, a critique of bias favoring the rich in the judicial process, opened at the Court Theatre in London.The play was published in 1910.
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
10
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
34
Performance of text George Bernard Shaw
John Bull's Other Island, a play about Ireland written by GBS at the request of W. B. Yeats , opened at the Court Theatre in London.
Innes, Christopher, editor. The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw. Cambridge University Press, 1998.
xxiv
Performance of text George Bernard Shaw
The Court Theatre presented Major Barbara, a three-act comedy by GBS in which he pits the ethos of the Salvation Army against modern industrialism.
Innes, Christopher, editor. The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw. Cambridge University Press, 1998.
xxiv
Weintraub, Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 10. Gale Research, 1982.
Performance of text George Bernard Shaw
GBS 's medical satire, The Doctor's Dilemma, opened at the Court Theatre in London.
Innes, Christopher, editor. The Cambridge Companion to George Bernard Shaw. Cambridge University Press, 1998.
xxiv-v
Weintraub, Stanley, editor. Dictionary of Literary Biography 10. Gale Research, 1982.
Author summary Elizabeth Baker
Elizabeth Baker 's drama often deals with feminist and economic issues facing struggling middle-class families. Her casts of characters include feisty, independent young women seeking emancipation and sympathetic men burdened with supporting a family on...
Textual Production Harriett Jay
This did even better than most of their joint plays, clocking up their longest consecutive run (256 performances).
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford, 1990.
By early 1897 HJ transformed it into a novel (her final work of fiction) under the same...

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