# Strathmore (play)

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{{Short description|1849 play}}
{{Infobox play
| name              =Strathmore 
| image             =File:Strathmore (play).jpg
| image_size        =
| caption           = 
| writer            = [John Westland Marston](/source/John_Westland_Marston)
| setting           = [Scotland](/source/Kingdom_of_Scotland), [1670s](/source/1670s)
| date of premiere  =20 June 1849
| original language = English
| place             = [Theatre Royal, Haymarket](/source/Theatre_Royal%2C_Haymarket), [London](/source/London)
| series            = 
| subject           = 
| genre             = Tragedy
}}
'''''Strathmore''''' is an 1849 [historical](/source/historical_play) [tragedy](/source/tragedy) by the British writer [John Westland Marston](/source/John_Westland_Marston).<ref>Rowell p.XXIV</ref> It premiered at the [Theatre Royal, Haymarket](/source/Theatre_Royal%2C_Haymarket) in [London](/source/London) on 20 June 1849.<ref>Nicoll p.343</ref> The original cast included [Charles Kean](/source/Charles_Kean) as Halbert Strathmore,  [Henry Hughes](/source/Henry_Hughes_(actor)) as Sir Rupert Lorn, [Henry Howe](/source/Henry_Howe_(actor)) as Bycefield, [John Baldwin Buckstone](/source/John_Baldwin_Buckstone) as Roland, [Ellen Kean](/source/Ellen_Tree) as Katharine Lorn and [Fanny Fitzwilliam](/source/Fanny_Fitzwilliam) as Janet. It is set during [The Killing Time](/source/The_Killing_Time) amidst repression of the Scottish [Covenanter](/source/Covenanter) religious movement in the [seventeenth century](/source/seventeenth_century).

==References==
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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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