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''[[The Illustrious Stranger, or Married and Buried]]'' was first performed at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in 1827, with music by Isaac Nathan, and printed by William Kenneth in 1827.
 
''[[The Illustrious Stranger, or Married and Buried]]'' was first performed at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in 1827, with music by Isaac Nathan, and printed by William Kenneth in 1827.
  
Also found as ''[[The Illustrious Stranger]]'', ''[[Buried Alive, or The Illustrious Stranger]]'' or even simply ''[[Buried Alive]]''.
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Also found as ''[[The Illustrious Stranger]]'', ''[[Buried Alive, or The Illustrious Stranger]]''.
  
 
'''See ''[[The Illustrious Stranger, or Married and Buried]]'''''
 
'''See ''[[The Illustrious Stranger, or Married and Buried]]'''''

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A number of theatrical works have had this title, sometimes as part of a longer title.


Buried Alive by M'Pherson

This refers to a play called Buried Alive, or The Visit to Japan, a melodrama, adapted from an unnamed French comedy by H. M'Pherson. First performed in English in Newcastle-on-Tyne Amphitheatre, May 1 1799(??)

See Buried Alive, or The Visit to Japan

Buried Alive by Milligen and Kenney

The Illustrious Stranger, or Married and Buried is a "comic operatic farce" in two acts by John Gideon Millingen[1] and James Kenney[2].

The Illustrious Stranger, or Married and Buried was first performed at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in 1827, with music by Isaac Nathan, and printed by William Kenneth in 1827.

Also found as The Illustrious Stranger, Buried Alive, or The Illustrious Stranger.

See The Illustrious Stranger, or Married and Buried

Buried Alive by Leo Tolstoy

This is actually an alternative title for Tolstoy's popular play The Living Corpse (Russian: Живой труп, Zhivoy trup) written in 1900. (Also known as The Live Corpse in English). It was written in 1900, it had its in the première at the Moscow Art Theatre, directed by Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko, with Konstantin Stanislavski as co-director, and featuring Stanislavsky, on 5 October 1911 and published in 1911.

See The Living Corpse


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