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... say that there was no play without a fool and a Devil in ' t : he was for the Devil still , God bless him ! The Devil for his money , he would say ; I would fain see the Devil . " Nearer to the modern Play than either the Miracle or the ...
... say that there was no play without a fool and a Devil in ' t : he was for the Devil still , God bless him ! The Devil for his money , he would say ; I would fain see the Devil . " Nearer to the modern Play than either the Miracle or the ...
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... says , " the unities of space and time to cir- cumscribe its dulness . " It has all the author's justness , weight , and fertility of thought , but little of his imagi- nation ; and though celebrated as the first English play written in ...
... says , " the unities of space and time to cir- cumscribe its dulness . " It has all the author's justness , weight , and fertility of thought , but little of his imagi- nation ; and though celebrated as the first English play written in ...
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... says Malone , 66 was the poverty of the old stage , that the same person played two or three parts ; and battles on which the fate of an empire was supposed to depend were decided by three combatants on a side . " It is difficult for us ...
... says Malone , 66 was the poverty of the old stage , that the same person played two or three parts ; and battles on which the fate of an empire was supposed to depend were decided by three combatants on a side . " It is difficult for us ...
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... say , with his truculent hero , " This is my mind , and I will have it so . " This self - asserting intellectual inso- lence is accompanied by an unwearied energy , which half redeems the bombast into which it runs , or rather rushes ...
... say , with his truculent hero , " This is my mind , and I will have it so . " This self - asserting intellectual inso- lence is accompanied by an unwearied energy , which half redeems the bombast into which it runs , or rather rushes ...
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... says Hunt , " in wilful and self - worship- ping speeches , and every one of them turns upon some kind of ascendency at the expense of other people . " His " Edward the Second " is the best historical play written before Shakespeare's ...
... says Hunt , " in wilful and self - worship- ping speeches , and every one of them turns upon some kind of ascendency at the expense of other people . " His " Edward the Second " is the best historical play written before Shakespeare's ...
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