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The Woman's Prize, the Glossary

The Woman's Prize, or the Tamer Tamed is a Jacobean comedy written by John Fletcher.^[1]

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Aristophanes

Aristophanes (Ἀριστοφάνης) was an Ancient Greek comic playwright from Athens and a poet of Old Attic Comedy.

The Beaumont and Fletcher folios are two large folio collections of the stage plays of John Fletcher and his collaborators. The Woman's Prize and Beaumont and Fletcher folios are English Renaissance plays and plays by John Fletcher (playwright).

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Ben Jonson

Benjamin Jonson was an English playwright and poet.

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Caroline era

The Caroline era is the period in English and Scottish history named for the 24-year reign of Charles I (1625–1649). The Woman's Prize and Caroline era are Charles I of England.

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Charles I of England

Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) was King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649.

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Cockpit Theatre

The Cockpit was a theatre in London, operating from 1616 to around 1665.

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Cyrus Hoy

Cyrus Henry Hoy (February 26, 1926 – April 27, 2010) was an American literary scholar of the English Renaissance stage who taught at the University of Virginia and Vanderbilt University, and was the John B. Trevor Professor of English (emeritus, 1994) at the University of Rochester.

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David Garrick

David Garrick (19 February 1717 – 20 January 1779) was an English actor, playwright, theatre manager and producer who influenced nearly all aspects of European theatrical practice throughout the 18th century, and was a pupil and friend of Samuel Johnson.

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David V. Erdman

David V. Erdman (November 4, 1911, in Omaha, NE – October 14, 2001) was an American literary critic, editor, and Professor Emeritus of English at the State University of New York at Stony Brook.

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E. K. Chambers

Sir Edmund Kerchever Chambers, (16 March 1866 – 21 January 1954), usually known as E. K. Chambers, was an English literary critic and Shakespearean scholar.

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Edward Knight (King's Men)

Edward Knight (fl. 1613 – 1637) was the prompter (then called the "book-keeper" or "book-holder") of the King's Men, the acting company that performed the plays of William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, John Fletcher, and other playwrights of Jacobean and Caroline drama.

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Eliard Swanston

Eliard Swanston (died 1651), alternatively spelled Heliard, Hilliard, Elyard, Ellyardt, Ellyaerdt, and Eyloerdt, was an English actor in the Caroline era.

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English literature

English literature is literature written in the English language from the English-speaking world.

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Epicœne, or The Silent Woman

Epicœne, or The Silent Woman, also known as Epicene, is a comedy by Renaissance playwright Ben Jonson. The Woman's Prize and Epicœne, or The Silent Woman are 1609 plays.

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F. E. Halliday

Frank Ernest Halliday (10 February 1903 – 26 March 1982) was an English academic, author and amateur painter.

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Henrietta Maria of France

Henrietta Maria of France (French: Henriette Marie; 25 November 1609 – 10 September 1669) was Queen of England, Scotland and Ireland from her marriage to King Charles I on 13 June 1625 until Charles was executed on 30 January 1649.

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Henry Herbert (Master of the Revels)

Sir Henry Herbert (baptized 7 July 1594 – 27 April 1673) was Master of the Revels to both King Charles I and King Charles II, as well as a politician during both reigns.

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John Downes (prompter)

John Downes (died c. 1712) worked as a prompter at the Duke's Company, and later the United Company, for most of the Restoration period 1660–1700.

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John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts

The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (officially known as the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts, and commonly referred to as the Kennedy Center) is the United States National Cultural Center, located on the eastern bank of the Potomac River in Washington, D.C. It was named in 1964 as a memorial to assassinated President John F.

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John Fletcher (playwright)

John Fletcher (December 1579 – August 1625) was an English playwright.

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John Lacy (playwright)

John Lacy (1615? – 17 September 1681) was an English comic actor and playwright during the Restoration era.

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John Lowin

John Lowin (baptized 9 December 1576 – buried – 24 August 1653) was an English actor.

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Joseph Taylor (actor)

Joseph Taylor (died 1652) was a 17th-century English actor.

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King's Men (playing company)

The King's Men was the acting company to which William Shakespeare (1564–1616) belonged for most of his career.

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Lysistrata

Lysistrata (or; Attic Greek: Λυσιστράτη, Lysistrátē) is an ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes, originally performed in classical Athens in 411 BCE.

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Master of the Revels

The Master of the Revels was the holder of a position within the English, and later the British, royal household, heading the "Revels Office" or "Office of the Revels".

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Rare Book Room

Rare Book Room is an educational website for the repository of digitally scanned rare books made freely available to the public.

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Robert Benfield

Robert Benfield (died July 1649) was a seventeenth-century actor, noted for his longtime membership in the King's Men in the years and decades after William Shakespeare's retirement and death.

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Royal Shakespeare Company

The Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) is a major British theatre company, based in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England.

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Samuel Pepys

Samuel Pepys (23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703) was an English diarist and naval administrator.

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Siege of Ostend

The Siege of Ostend was a three-year siege of the city of Ostend during the Eighty Years' War and the Anglo–Spanish War.

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St James's Palace

St James's Palace is the most senior royal palace in London, the capital of the United Kingdom.

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Swetnam the Woman-Hater

Swetnam the Woman-Hater Arraigned by Women is a Jacobean era stage play from the English Renaissance, an anonymous comedy that was part of a controversy during the 1615 – 1620 period. The Woman's Prize and Swetnam the Woman-Hater are English Renaissance plays.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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The Scornful Lady

The Scornful Lady is a Jacobean era stage play, a comedy written by Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, and first published in 1616, the year of Beaumont's death. The Woman's Prize and the Scornful Lady are English Renaissance plays and plays by John Fletcher (playwright).

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The Taming of the Shrew

The Taming of the Shrew is a comedy by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written between 1590 and 1592. The Woman's Prize and the Taming of the Shrew are English Renaissance plays.

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Theatre Royal, Drury Lane

The Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, commonly known as Drury Lane, is a West End theatre and Grade I listed building in Covent Garden, London, England.

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Valentine Simmes

Valentine Simmes (fl. 1585 – 1622) was an Elizabethan era and Jacobean era printer; he did business in London, "on Adling Hill near Bainard's Castle at the sign of the White Swan." Simmes has a reputation as one of the better printers of his generation, and was responsible for several quartos of Shakespeare's plays.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor.

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Women's Prize for Fiction

The Women's Prize for Fiction (previously with sponsor names Orange Prize for Fiction (1996–2006 and 2009–2012), Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction (2007–08) and Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (2014–2017) is one of the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary prizes.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woman's_Prize

Also known as The Tamer Tamed, The Woman's Prize, or the Tamer Tamed, Woman's Prize.

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1609 plays

1610 plays

Plays and musicals based on The Taming of the Shrew

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