Strathmore (play)

{{Short description|1849 play}} {{Infobox play | name =Strathmore | image =File:Strathmore (play).jpg | image_size = | caption = | writer = John Westland Marston | setting = Scotland, 1670s | date of premiere =20 June 1849 | original language = English | place = Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London | series = | subject = | genre = Tragedy }} '''''Strathmore''''' is an 1849 historical tragedy by the British writer John Westland Marston.<ref>Rowell p.XXIV</ref> It premiered at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket in London on 20 June 1849.<ref>Nicoll p.343</ref> 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.

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Category:1849 plays Category:West End plays Category:British tragedy plays Category:Plays set in Scotland Category:Plays set in the 17th century Category:Plays by John Westland Marston

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