Middleton wrote in many genres, including tragedy, history play and city comedy.

"You're not doing a history play, where Henry V has to be in the right armor," she said.

The history play first took its modern form in Tudor England.

This is a history play in both the public and the private realms.

His skills have found expression in chronicles, or history plays, and tragedies.

This stirring bulletin is not the report of a messenger who has just come onstage in some neo-Shakespearean history play.

Jidaimono, or history plays, were set within the context of major events in Japanese history.

"Souvenir" can seem like a one-joke history play for music buffs, but it's actually better than that.

The work, though popular in Shakespeare's time, is widely regarded today as a minor history play.

All the history plays are still rolled up into a very fast televised football game.