Strathmore (play)

Strathmore
Written by	John Westland Marston
Date premiered	20 June 1849
Place premiered	Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London
Original language	English
Genre	Tragedy
Setting	Scotland, 1670s

Strathmore is an 1849 historical tragedy by the British writer John Westland Marston. It premiered at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket in London on 20 June 1849. The original cast included Charles Kean as Halbert Strathmore, Henry Hughes as Sir Rupert Lorn, Henry Howe as Bycefield, John Baldwin Buckstone as Roland, Ellen Kean as Katharine Lorn and Fanny Fitzwilliam as Janet. It is set during The Killing Time amidst repression of the Scottish Covenanter religious movement in the seventeenth century.

Bibliography

• Nicoll, Allardyce. A History of Early Nineteenth Century Drama 1800-1850. Cambridge University Press, 1930.
• Rowell, George. Victorian Dramatic Criticism. Routledge, 2015.