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Page 166
... play - house , for the prop of an age . Don Carlos , from which he is represented as having received so much benefit , was played in 1675. It appears , by the Lampoon , to have had great success , and is said to have been played thirty ...
... play - house , for the prop of an age . Don Carlos , from which he is represented as having received so much benefit , was played in 1675. It appears , by the Lampoon , to have had great success , and is said to have been played thirty ...
Page 241
... play , made by Dryden in conjunction with Davenant , ' whom , ' says he , ' I found of so quick a fancy , that nothing was proposed to him in which he could not suddenly produce a thought extremely pleasant and surprising ; and those ...
... play , made by Dryden in conjunction with Davenant , ' whom , ' says he , ' I found of so quick a fancy , that nothing was proposed to him in which he could not suddenly produce a thought extremely pleasant and surprising ; and those ...
Page 254
... play was written in the second Dutch war in 1673 . Troilus and Cressida is a play altered from Shakespeare ; but so altered that even in Langbaine's opinion , the last scene in the third act is a masterpiece . It is introduced by a ...
... play was written in the second Dutch war in 1673 . Troilus and Cressida is a play altered from Shakespeare ; but so altered that even in Langbaine's opinion , the last scene in the third act is a masterpiece . It is introduced by a ...
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