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The Servant of Two Masters
by Carlo Goldoni
Category Archives: A Period
The Second Shepherds Play
Pierre Pathelin
The Winter’s Tale
The Ticket-of-Leave Man
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The Ticket-of-Leave Man
by Tom Taylor
About the Play
The Ticket-of-Leave Man is an 1863 stage melodrama in four acts by the British writer Tom Taylor, based on a French drama, Le Retour de Melun. It takes its name from the Ticket of Leave issued to convicts when they were released from jail on parole. A recently returned convict is blackmailed by another man into committing a robbery, but is rescued thanks to the intervention of a detective. It has been described as probably being the first play about a detective.
The play introduced the character of Hawkshaw the Detective, with “Hawkshaw” becoming a synonym for a detective. It was not well received by critics, but proved very popular with audiences and was constantly revived, becoming one of the standard works of Victorian melodrama.
The Tragedy of Tragedies
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The Tragedy of Tragedies
or, The Life and Death of Tom Thumb the Great
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Ubu Roi
Hedda Gabler
A Live Woman in the Mines
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A Live Woman in the Mines
by Alonzo Delano
Back to Methuselah
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Back to Methuselah
by G B Shaw
Cold Reads/International 