The Story of English LiteratureThe function of an introduction to English literature is to interest students in the content and spirit of great books and their relation to their times and to one another. |
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... play be laid in Italy or Bohemia , will people his plays with the English folk whom he knows and understands . Such plays as we have just seen had their beginnings long before Chaucer's day in the form of simple little scenes or ...
... play be laid in Italy or Bohemia , will people his plays with the English folk whom he knows and understands . Such plays as we have just seen had their beginnings long before Chaucer's day in the form of simple little scenes or ...
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... plays - especially Latin were read and often acted as school exercises . The orderliness of these plays , their systematically developed plots , their formal arrangement into parts or acts each of which made a sort of framework for a ...
... plays - especially Latin were read and often acted as school exercises . The orderliness of these plays , their systematically developed plots , their formal arrangement into parts or acts each of which made a sort of framework for a ...
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... play . " ยท Dryden rapidly became famous as a playwright . But he was not content merely to let his plays take their course upon the stage . He wanted to think of them as dramatic experiments , to defend his methods , to analyze his art ...
... play . " ยท Dryden rapidly became famous as a playwright . But he was not content merely to let his plays take their course upon the stage . He wanted to think of them as dramatic experiments , to defend his methods , to analyze his art ...
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THE BEGINNINGS OF LITERATURE IN ENGLAND | 3 |
CHAUCER AND HIS TIMES | 27 |
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