The Spartan Dame
id:
the-spartan-dame-237-17444171
title:
The Spartan Dame
text:
The Spartan Dame is a 1719 tragedy by the Irish writer Thomas Southerne. It was inspired by a story from Plutarch's Life of Aegis and was originally written as early 1687, but faced a long period of censorship and revision. The Drury Lane managers chose to revive it at a time of tension with the Stanhope-led government Whigs over licensing issues, and may have selected it because its plot subtly allowed them to demonstrate sympathy with the opposition Whigs led by Robert Walpole following the re
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
1719 play
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Spartan_Dame
date created:
date modified:
2022-04-19T08:43:55Z
main entity:
{"identifier":"Q104855580","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q104855580"}
image:
{"content_url":"https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/be/The_Spartan_Dame.jpg","width":1060,"height":1593}
fields total:
13
integrity:
15