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... comedy of manners , The Scornful Lady , certainly deserves no better name , and it is probable that there were many like him in the great establishments of that date and for many years afterwards . Though the jester was still ...
... comedy of manners , The Scornful Lady , certainly deserves no better name , and it is probable that there were many like him in the great establishments of that date and for many years afterwards . Though the jester was still ...
Page 163
... comedy is dull and heavy ; but the interchange of wit and thought between persons of cultivated intelligence in situations of not too great intensity finds an admirable interpreter in him , and he has also a keen gift of satire , less ...
... comedy is dull and heavy ; but the interchange of wit and thought between persons of cultivated intelligence in situations of not too great intensity finds an admirable interpreter in him , and he has also a keen gift of satire , less ...
Page 236
... comedy called The Yonge Admirall , being free from oaths , profaness , or obsceanes , hath given mee much delight and satisfaction in the readinge , and may serve for a patterne to other poetts , not only for the bettring of maners and ...
... comedy called The Yonge Admirall , being free from oaths , profaness , or obsceanes , hath given mee much delight and satisfaction in the readinge , and may serve for a patterne to other poetts , not only for the bettring of maners and ...
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THE EDUCATION OF ELIZABETHAN WOMEN 27 1 | 27 |
THE HOME LIFE OF ELIZABETHAN WOMEN | 45 |
THE ELIZABETHAN DRAMA AND WOMEN | 93 |
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