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Ashley Dukes

ASHLEY DUKES  (1885 - 1959)

 Nationality:    English
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 Dumb Wife Of Cheapside, The         Elizabeth Of England         From Morn To Midnight         Machine Wreckers, The         Man With A Load Of Mischief A Comedy In Three Acts (Contemporary British Dramatists, Volume Xv) Ernest Benn Ltd 1925         Parisienne         Patriot, The         Return To Danes Hill         Song Of Drums         Such Men Are Dangerous

Dumb Wife Of Cheapside, The

Synopsis:
alderman Groat has married a beautiful young woman. However she cannot speak. He calls in medical men who operate on her. The result is she is no longer dumb - but now she never stops talking. It is driving the alderman mad. He calls in the medical men but they cannot make her dumb again - so he asks them to make him deaf.

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Samuel French Ltd, London   -

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Genre:
One act

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Male:  6            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Elizabeth Of England

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Original Playwright - Ferdinand Bruckner

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Ernest Benn   -

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Translation

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From Morn To Midnight

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Original Playwright - Georg Kaiser

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Contained in "Twenty Best European Plays on the American Stage" published by Crown Publishers, New York, 1963   -

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Translation

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Machine Wreckers, The

Ashley Dukes
a classic of German expressionism by an active revolutionary who was also an accomplished poet and playwright. Set largely in Nottingham in the early years of the 19th century, The Machine Wreckers depicts the suffering amongst the local weavers caused by the introduction of mechanised looms - the 'machines' of the title.

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Original Playwright - Ernst Toller. Original title "Die Maschinensturmer". First staged in 1922 in Berlin, this English version by Ashley Dukes was staged At the National Theatre, London, in 1995 directed by Katie Mitchell.

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Nick Hern Books, London, 1995   978-1854592880

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Man With A Load Of Mischief A Comedy In Three Acts (Contemporary British Dramatists, Volume Xv) Ernest Benn Ltd 1925

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a nobleman together with his wife, his manservant and her maid arrive at the "Man With a Load Of Mischief Inn". The nobleman wants to humiliate his wife and has instructed his manservant to seduce her.

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(Contemporary British Dramatists, Volume XV). Ernest Benn Ltd, 1925   -

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Genre:
Three act Comedy

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Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Parisienne

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Fulton Theatre, New York    24 Jul 1950

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Patriot, The

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Majestic Theatre, New York    1928

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Play/Drama

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Return To Danes Hill

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Samuel French, London, 1958   -

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Genre:
Tragi Comedy Tragedy

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Song Of Drums

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(Contemporary British Dramatists, Volume XLII). Ernest Benn Ltd, 1926   -

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Genre:
Heroic Comedy

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Such Men Are Dangerous

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Based on the book "The Patriot" by Alfred Neumann

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Duke Of Yorks Theatre, London    19 Sep 1928

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Victor Gollancz 1928   -

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