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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
Page 263
... play was written in the second Dutch war in 1673 . Troilus and Cressida is a play altered from Shake- speare ; 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 Shake- speare ; 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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... play without appearing to revenge himself . He therefore pub- lished A Narrative of the madness of John Dennis ; a performance which left the objections to the play in their full force , and therefore discovered more desire of vexing ...
... play without appearing to revenge himself . He therefore pub- lished A Narrative of the madness of John Dennis ; a performance which left the objections to the play in their full force , and therefore discovered more desire of vexing ...
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