George Lillo (3 February 1691 – 4 September 1739) was an English playwright and tragedian. He was also a jeweller in London. He produced his first stage...
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The London Merchant (Or The History Of George Barnwell) is playwright George Lillo's most famous work. A tragedy that follows the downfall of a young...
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George Barnwell may refer to: George Barnwell, the lead character in the play The London Merchant by George Lillo George W. Barnwell (1888–1958), American...
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and Maids as they Are by Elizabeth Inchbald, The London Merchant by George Lillo and the world premiere of Inchbald's The Massacre two centuries after...
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Lillo may refer to: Lillo Baby, a Brazilian baby accessory maker Lillo & Greg, an Italian comedy duo Lillo, Antwerp, a former town in Belgium, disappeared...
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"Underhill, Cave" in Dictionary of National Biography. George Lillo (1979). The plays of George Lillo. Garland Pub. p. xxviii. ISBN 978-0-8240-3601-0....
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History, and Biography ... Wm. S. Orr and Company. 1838. p. 117. George Lillo (1823). George Barnwell, a Tragedy. With Prefatory Remarks... Oxberry. p. 13...
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stagings were of lower farces and much more serious and domestic tragedies. George Lillo and Richard Steele both produced highly moral forms of tragedy, where...
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Donald Richard "Don" DeLillo (born November 20, 1936) is an American novelist, short story writer, playwright, screenwriter and essayist. His works have...
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Appleton. pp. 512. George Lillo; Thomas Davies (1810). Mr. Lillo's Life. Silvia; or The Country Burial, an opera. George Barnwall, a tragedy. The Life...
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Neoclassicism dominated the stage, but it emerged again with the work of George Lillo and Sir Richard Steele in the eighteenth century. Bourgeois tragedy De...
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Ulrich II, Duke of Württemberg-Wilhelminenort (d. 1734) February 3 – George Lillo, British writer (d. 1739) February 4 – Louis-Basile de Bernage, French...
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Scyros in Achilles by John Gay (1733) Amurath in The Christian Hero by George Lillo (1735) Mondish in The Universal Gallant by Henry Fielding (1735) Protheus...
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Skanderbeg (redirect from George Castriota)
18th-century British tragedies: William Havard's Scanderbeg, A Tragedy (1733), George Lillo's The Christian Hero (1735), and Thomas Whincop's Scanderbeg, Or, Love...
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Fatal Curiosity (category Plays by George Lillo)
Fatal Curiosity is a 1737 tragedy by the British writer George Lillo. It is also known by the alternative title Guilt Its Own Punishment. The original...
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Marina (play) (category Plays by George Lillo)
Marina is a 1738 tragedy by the British writer George Lillo. It is a reworking of Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre, produced at a time when Covent...
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true bourgeois tragedy was an English play: George Lillo's The London Merchant; or, the History of George Barnwell, which was first performed in 1731...
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The Christian Hero (category Plays by George Lillo)
The Christian Hero is a 1735 tragedy by the British writer George Lillo. It is based on the life of Skanderbeg who led a rebellion against the Ottoman...
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Lillo Thomas (born 1961) is an American soul musician. He reached the peak of his success as a recording artist in the 1980s. His most famous songs include...
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Tyre (1608) by William Shakespeare and (probably) George Wilkins Marina, title character in George Lillo's play Marina (1738), based on the preceding Marina...
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Ulrich II, Duke of Württemberg-Wilhelminenort (d. 1734) February 3 – George Lillo, British writer (d. 1739) February 4 – Louis-Basile de Bernage, French...
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England) Saunders Lewis (1893–1985, Wales) Nell Leyshon (living, England) George Lillo (1691–1739, England) David Lindsay-Abaire (born 1969, United States)...
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Hewitt – A Tutor for the Beaus Samuel Johnson – All Alive and Merry George Lillo – Fatal Curiosity Francis Lynch – The Independent Patriot Pierre de Marivaux...
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(Munns 97–100).[discuss] George Lillo and Richard Steele wrote the trend-setting plays of the early Augustan period. Lillo's plays consciously turned...
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Rape The Temple Beau Tom Thumb Charles Johnson – The Tragedy of Medea George Lillo – Sylvia Pierre de Marivaux – The Game of Love and Chance Benjamin Martyn...
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Underworld (novel) (redirect from Underworld (DeLillo novel))
Underworld is a 1997 novel by American writer Don DeLillo. The novel is centered on the efforts of Nick Shay, a waste management executive who grew up...
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Triumphs of Love and Honour by Thomas Cooke (1731) George Barnwell in The London Merchant by George Lillo (1731) Gaffer Dunfork in The Devil to Pay by Charles...
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time, fully involved in political campaigning for the Irish. 1731: George Lillo's play The London Merchant was a success at the Theatre-Royal in Drury...
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Elmerick (category Plays by George Lillo)
Elmerick, or Justice Triumphant is a 1740 tragedy by the British writer George Lillo. It was performed posthumously following his death the year before. It...
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Letter-Writers Philip Frowde – Philotas Aaron Hill – Athelwold George Jeffreys – Merope George Lillo – The London Merchant David Mallet – Eurydice James Ralph...
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