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... play is remarkable for the subtlety and poignant restraint with which the separate suffering of man and wife are handled , at a time that also saw the production of Othello and Hamlet , when the ' revenge play ' was still exceedingly ...
... play is remarkable for the subtlety and poignant restraint with which the separate suffering of man and wife are handled , at a time that also saw the production of Othello and Hamlet , when the ' revenge play ' was still exceedingly ...
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... plays for the Court about the year 1630. His first play , The Wits , appeared in 1633 . Queen Henrietta Maria being determined to introduce the idea of Platonic love to her husband's somewhat wayward court , D'Avenant wrote a play on ...
... plays for the Court about the year 1630. His first play , The Wits , appeared in 1633 . Queen Henrietta Maria being determined to introduce the idea of Platonic love to her husband's somewhat wayward court , D'Avenant wrote a play on ...
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... play , The Shadow of the Gunman , which dealt with the Anglo - Irish conflict of 1920 , was produced at the Abbey Theatre , Dublin , in 1923 , and brought back to the modern stage the intensity of real experience . It was followed by ...
... play , The Shadow of the Gunman , which dealt with the Anglo - Irish conflict of 1920 , was produced at the Abbey Theatre , Dublin , in 1923 , and brought back to the modern stage the intensity of real experience . It was followed by ...
Contents
Preface | 7 |
The Age of Chaucer | 16 |
The English Renaissance 335 | 35 |
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Jonathan Swift and Popular Culture: Myth, Media, and the Man Ann Cline Kelly No preview available - 2002 |