A History of English Literature: The Middle Ages and the Renascence (650-1660)Macmillan, 1964 - 1469 pages |
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... called Shakespearian . Cambyses is not always on the stage , but gives place to buffoons . We can discern , in the raw , the expedients of a playwright who , chiefly by varying his scenes , appeals to a heterogeneous public , caters for ...
... called Shakespearian . Cambyses is not always on the stage , but gives place to buffoons . We can discern , in the raw , the expedients of a playwright who , chiefly by varying his scenes , appeals to a heterogeneous public , caters for ...
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... called The Wounds of Civil War . As for Robert Greene ( 1558-1592 ) , he was at this time turning all his energies from the novel to drama , and with Lodge he wrote , in the old didactic manner , a sort of miracle play called A Looking ...
... called The Wounds of Civil War . As for Robert Greene ( 1558-1592 ) , he was at this time turning all his energies from the novel to drama , and with Lodge he wrote , in the old didactic manner , a sort of miracle play called A Looking ...
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... called Delights of the Muses , and includes a cele- brated translation or rather paraphrase of a poem by a Jesuit on ... called his voluptuous exaltation . He published in 1646 a collection of poems written before his conversion and ...
... called Delights of the Muses , and includes a cele- brated translation or rather paraphrase of a poem by a Jesuit on ... called his voluptuous exaltation . He published in 1646 a collection of poems written before his conversion and ...
Contents
ANGLOSAXON LITERATURE 6501066 | 55 |
THE PREROMANTIC PERIOD 177098 | 98 |
BOOK III | 199 |
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