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Page 248
... acts long . Balabharata tells the story of Draupadi and the great gambling scene ; but is only two acts , and seems to be incomplete . Karpūraman- jāri ( The Cluster of Camphor Blossoms ) , is a four act love story in which a Kuntala ...
... acts long . Balabharata tells the story of Draupadi and the great gambling scene ; but is only two acts , and seems to be incomplete . Karpūraman- jāri ( The Cluster of Camphor Blossoms ) , is a four act love story in which a Kuntala ...
Page 468
... acts . 1605 . Written about 1605 and published in quarto form in 1608. An older play , King Leir , provided materials for Shakespeare's play , as did Holinshed's Chronicles . The Gloucester sub - plot is from Sidney's novel Arcadia ...
... acts . 1605 . Written about 1605 and published in quarto form in 1608. An older play , King Leir , provided materials for Shakespeare's play , as did Holinshed's Chronicles . The Gloucester sub - plot is from Sidney's novel Arcadia ...
Page 593
... acts . 1902 . A woman , unhappily married , takes a lover . Much to her distress she discovers her daughter in love with the same man . Reports of the mother's affair have come to the daughter , and the older woman sacrifices her love ...
... acts . 1902 . A woman , unhappily married , takes a lover . Much to her distress she discovers her daughter in love with the same man . Reports of the mother's affair have come to the daughter , and the older woman sacrifices her love ...
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