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Don Carlos , from which he is represented as having received so much benefit , was played in 1675. ... This however it is reasonable to doubt , as so long a continuance of one play upon the stage is a very wide deviation from the ...
Don Carlos , from which he is represented as having received so much benefit , was played in 1675. ... This however it is reasonable to doubt , as so long a continuance of one play upon the stage is a very wide deviation from the ...
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This 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 .
This 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 .
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Pope had now an opportunity of courting the friendship of Addison , by vilifying his old enemy , and could give resentment its full play without appearing to revenge himself . He therefore published A Narrative of the madness of John ...
Pope had now an opportunity of courting the friendship of Addison , by vilifying his old enemy , and could give resentment its full play without appearing to revenge himself . He therefore published A Narrative of the madness of John ...
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