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... dramatic satire on the king , lords , and commons , which was acted in 1535 at Cupar - Fife and Edinburgh . His Squire Meldrum , last of the metrical romances , is lively but licentious . The Monarchie , opening with the Creation and ...
... dramatic satire on the king , lords , and commons , which was acted in 1535 at Cupar - Fife and Edinburgh . His Squire Meldrum , last of the metrical romances , is lively but licentious . The Monarchie , opening with the Creation and ...
Page 102
... dramatic amateurs . The Devil of the Miracle Plays was still retained , to aid the Vice in doing the comic business of the Moralities . The fun , most relished by such audiences as Old England could then produce , consisted in calling ...
... dramatic amateurs . The Devil of the Miracle Plays was still retained , to aid the Vice in doing the comic business of the Moralities . The fun , most relished by such audiences as Old England could then produce , consisted in calling ...
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... dramatic picture of London life , writ- ten before 1551 , by Nicholas Udall , is - so far as we know — the first English comedy . And the old British story of Ferrex and Porrex , dramatized by Sackville and Norton , which was acted in ...
... dramatic picture of London life , writ- ten before 1551 , by Nicholas Udall , is - so far as we know — the first English comedy . And the old British story of Ferrex and Porrex , dramatized by Sackville and Norton , which was acted in ...
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... dramatic literature . The brightest day at noon is that whose dawn is wrapped in heavy mists ; and so upon the opening of this brilliant time- the midsummer of English poetry - thick clouds of darkness rest . How Shakspere lived when ...
... dramatic literature . The brightest day at noon is that whose dawn is wrapped in heavy mists ; and so upon the opening of this brilliant time- the midsummer of English poetry - thick clouds of darkness rest . How Shakspere lived when ...
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... dramatic craft , Jonson was a leading wit . Like his burly namesake of the eighteenth century , he was a man of solid learning and great conversational powers ; and his social qualities , kindled by the old sack , which he loved too ...
... dramatic craft , Jonson was a leading wit . Like his burly namesake of the eighteenth century , he was a man of solid learning and great conversational powers ; and his social qualities , kindled by the old sack , which he loved too ...
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