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... comedy , written on the five - act classical pattern and owing a great deal to Plautus and Terence . Mathew Merygreeke incites Ralph Roister Doister to court Dame Christian Custance , a widow betrothed to Gawyn Goodluck , a merchant ...
... comedy , written on the five - act classical pattern and owing a great deal to Plautus and Terence . Mathew Merygreeke incites Ralph Roister Doister to court Dame Christian Custance , a widow betrothed to Gawyn Goodluck , a merchant ...
Page 180
... comedy - which were so peculiarly fitted to the genius of the age that not all the protests of the learned purists could prevent their gaining favour . Bearing a somewhat similar relation to comedy proper as Preston's Cambises did to ...
... comedy - which were so peculiarly fitted to the genius of the age that not all the protests of the learned purists could prevent their gaining favour . Bearing a somewhat similar relation to comedy proper as Preston's Cambises did to ...
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... comedy nor tragi - comedy . It is cynical and bitter as gall . Cressida is wanton , but not alluring as a stage - character ; Thersites spits venom ; Pandarus is a lubricious go - between . No other treatment of the Greek story is in ...
... comedy nor tragi - comedy . It is cynical and bitter as gall . Cressida is wanton , but not alluring as a stage - character ; Thersites spits venom ; Pandarus is a lubricious go - between . No other treatment of the Greek story is in ...
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UNTIL CHAUCER I | 1 |
CHAUCER HIS CONTEMPORARIES AND | 14 |
POPULAR LITERATURE | 43 |
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