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