Strathmore (play)

{{Short description|1849 play}}

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| writer = John Westland Marston

| setting = Scotland, 1670s

| date of premiere =20 June 1849

| original language = English

| place = Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London

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| genre = Tragedy

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Strathmore is an 1849 historical tragedy by the British writer John Westland Marston.Rowell p.XXIV It premiered at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket in London on 20 June 1849.Nicoll p.343 The original cast included Charles Kean as Halbert Strathmore, Henry Hughes as Sir Rupert Lorn, Henry Howe as Bycefield, John Baldwin Buckstone as Roland, Ellen Kean as Katharine Lorn and Fanny Fitzwilliam as Janet. It is set during The Killing Time amidst repression of the Scottish Covenanter religious movement in the seventeenth century.

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Bibliography

  • Nicoll, Allardyce. A History of Early Nineteenth Century Drama 1800-1850. Cambridge University Press, 1930.
  • Rowell, George. Victorian Dramatic Criticism. Routledge, 2015.

Category:1849 plays

Category:West End plays

Category:British plays

Category:Historical plays

Category:Tragedy plays

Category:Plays set in Scotland

Category:Plays set in the 17th century

Category:Plays by John Westland Marston

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