The Elizabethan Dramatists as CriticsPhilosophical Library, 1963 - 420 pages |
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... Middleton . Widow ( c . 1620 ) Prol .: A sport only for Christmas is the play This hour presents to you . To make you gay Is all th ' ambition ' t has , and fullest aim Bent on your smiles , to win itself a name ; And if your edge be ...
... Middleton . Widow ( c . 1620 ) Prol .: A sport only for Christmas is the play This hour presents to you . To make you gay Is all th ' ambition ' t has , and fullest aim Bent on your smiles , to win itself a name ; And if your edge be ...
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... Middleton . Mayor of Quinborough ( 1596 ) . V i : Simon . ... put out in it ? Call you this a merry comedy , when a man's eyes are Middleton here is poking fun at the practice of early title - pages to describe a play as merry , when it ...
... Middleton . Mayor of Quinborough ( 1596 ) . V i : Simon . ... put out in it ? Call you this a merry comedy , when a man's eyes are Middleton here is poking fun at the practice of early title - pages to describe a play as merry , when it ...
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... Middleton . No Wit , No Help , like a Woman's ( 1613 ) . Prol .: We shall both make you sad and tickle ye . Middleton , Rowley . World Tost at Tennis ( 1619 ) . Prol .: This our device we do not call a play , Because we break the ...
... Middleton . No Wit , No Help , like a Woman's ( 1613 ) . Prol .: We shall both make you sad and tickle ye . Middleton , Rowley . World Tost at Tennis ( 1619 ) . Prol .: This our device we do not call a play , Because we break the ...
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