Meanings of historical play in English

In June, Whaley House became the setting for an historical play.

The Life and Death of King John, an historical play.

The Life of King Henry V. an historical play.

The Dutchess of Suffolk, an historical play 1631.

Pericles Prince of Tyre, an historical play.

The Four London Apprentices, with the Conquest of Jerusalem; an historical play, acted by the Queen's servants 1635.

He immediately began to plan out a great historical play, and selected for his subject "Strafford."

The article which I have been reading, says-speakingof the historical play produced by the pupils of the Howland School-

Your wife asked me in the summer to write an historical play, and now I'm longing to write and write.

They were performing an ancient and celebrated historical play, and a Chinaman explained it to me in pidjin English as it went along.

There was a striking illustration of this in 1913 when the Kaiser had Hauptmann's historical play suppressed because it represented Frederick William III.

The Golden Age, or the Lives of Jupiter and Saturn, an historical play, acted at the Red Bull, by the Queen's servants, 1611.

But Aeschylus had a model for his historical play in the 'Phoenician Women' of his predecessor Phrynichus, which dealt with the same theme.

The young man was a character; talking with him was like being brought face to face with a person from a historical play.

Now, this important historical play on the stage of our National Theatre charts their rise from birth (literally) to that breakthrough performance at Danzapalooza.

From them Shakespeare drew most of the material for his historical plays.