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... wrote parts of Henry VIII ( 1613 ) . Fletcher's own comedies , of which the best is The Wild - Goose Chase ( 1621 ) , had some success upon the stage ; but throughout his life he continued to collaborate , and there are few dramatists ...
... wrote parts of Henry VIII ( 1613 ) . Fletcher's own comedies , of which the best is The Wild - Goose Chase ( 1621 ) , had some success upon the stage ; but throughout his life he continued to collaborate , and there are few dramatists ...
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... wrote religious verse . Their range was remarkably wide ; and , whereas writers of the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries , when they portrayed the relationship of Man and God , customarily adopted the terms of conventional religious ...
... wrote religious verse . Their range was remarkably wide ; and , whereas writers of the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries , when they portrayed the relationship of Man and God , customarily adopted the terms of conventional religious ...
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... wrote of Christianity , observed the renowned scholar Richard Porson , like a man whom the Christian religion had personally injured . Hence the con- temptuous phrase with which he dismissed the Byzantine Empire ; it had existed , he wrote ...
... wrote of Christianity , observed the renowned scholar Richard Porson , like a man whom the Christian religion had personally injured . Hence the con- temptuous phrase with which he dismissed the Byzantine Empire ; it had existed , he wrote ...
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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 |