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... dramatist who was her greatest subject , there come a quartet of famous plays , which are worth a little individual description as the seeds of what was to flower in twenty years . They show for the first time that English had achieved ...
... dramatist who was her greatest subject , there come a quartet of famous plays , which are worth a little individual description as the seeds of what was to flower in twenty years . They show for the first time that English had achieved ...
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... dramatist as well . JOHN MARSTON , like so many of the rest , is rather shadowy as a personality . We know however that he was a lawyer's son , born at Coventry in the late fifteen - seventies , and that he was a graduate of Oxford ...
... dramatist as well . JOHN MARSTON , like so many of the rest , is rather shadowy as a personality . We know however that he was a lawyer's son , born at Coventry in the late fifteen - seventies , and that he was a graduate of Oxford ...
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... dramatists . The selection is not always of the best plays , and many of the introductions have ' dated ' badly , but ... dramatist and psychologist by a man who was neither - but also , a study of one great poet by another . Hamilton ...
... dramatists . The selection is not always of the best plays , and many of the introductions have ' dated ' badly , but ... dramatist and psychologist by a man who was neither - but also , a study of one great poet by another . Hamilton ...
Contents
PREFACE | 9 |
SHAKESPEARES PREDECESSORS | 25 |
SHAKESPEARES SENIORS I | 38 |
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