Sentence examples for surviving plays from inspiring English sources

Aristophanes' comedy is one of his 11 surviving plays.

He also printed the only surviving plays of John Heywood, who married Rastell's sister, Eliza.

Of the nine surviving plays that are entirely Dekker's work, probably the best-known are The Shoemakers Holiday (1600) and The Honest Whore, Part 2 (1630).

His 21 surviving plays (of a total of about 130) were in turn to inspire playwrights for centuries to come, including Shakespeare.

The Greeks didn't: an astonishing number of the earliest surviving plays describe families who slaughter – and occasionally snack on – their nearest and dearest.

(Zinoman) ★ 'These Seven Sicknesses' Over the course of this ambitious adaptation of Sophocles' seven surviving plays, blood erupts from just about every orifice, onto just about every article of clothing and just about every square inch of the narrow stage.

Those hypocrisies are no longer ours; the surviving play, however brilliantly crafted, feels out of time.

It's almost certainly Shakespeare's first surviving play, and the script has this wonderful freshness about it.

Right now, however, it's the setting for Aeschylus's The Persians, National Theatre Wales' extraordinary al fresco staging of the world's oldest surviving play, which is also a military reportage (from 47BC).

Items will include rare examples of his handwriting including a signature on a mortgage deed and the one surviving play script in his hand, which is a revision to the play Sir Thomas More.

For example, Wright believes he has identified "around 19 tragedies" that featured the heroine Medea – who, in the one surviving play about her, by Euripides, takes revenge on her faithless husband by killing their children.