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... comedy of the Italian courts and academies did not travel to England with any speed . Ariosto's ( prose ) I Suppositi of 1509 fathered what is probably the first English version of a play of this kind , George Gascoigne's Supposes ...
... comedy of the Italian courts and academies did not travel to England with any speed . Ariosto's ( prose ) I Suppositi of 1509 fathered what is probably the first English version of a play of this kind , George Gascoigne's Supposes ...
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... comedy of their love ' lies mainly in the desperate earnestness with which the lovers pursue what is mostly a very unsuitable affair . They are at bottom only playing a game , though compelled to it by Cupid , and they are as miserable ...
... comedy of their love ' lies mainly in the desperate earnestness with which the lovers pursue what is mostly a very unsuitable affair . They are at bottom only playing a game , though compelled to it by Cupid , and they are as miserable ...
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... comedy " , " fulfilling as it does Sir Philip Sidney's wish to see in England a ' right comedy ' free of scurrility and doltishness fit only for loud laughter . 50 Indeed , Sappho and Phao nicely illustrates the marriage of ' delight ...
... comedy " , " fulfilling as it does Sir Philip Sidney's wish to see in England a ' right comedy ' free of scurrility and doltishness fit only for loud laughter . 50 Indeed , Sappho and Phao nicely illustrates the marriage of ' delight ...
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