Representative English Comedies: An historical view of the beginnings of English comedyCharles Mills Gayley, Alwin Thaler Macmillan, 1903 - English drama (Comedy) |
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... play , the miracle of St. Katharine , presented by Geoffrey , afterwards Abbot of St. Albans , at Dunstable about 1100 , to war- rant the inference that it was a novelty , even at that date . Since Geoffrey was at the time awaiting a ...
... play , the miracle of St. Katharine , presented by Geoffrey , afterwards Abbot of St. Albans , at Dunstable about 1100 , to war- rant the inference that it was a novelty , even at that date . Since Geoffrey was at the time awaiting a ...
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... play is of the stuff that produces comedy ; for , whether the miracles are active or passive , the Christian saint and soldier always proceeds victorious , and with increasing merit abides as ensample and intercessor in the church ...
... play is of the stuff that produces comedy ; for , whether the miracles are active or passive , the Christian saint and soldier always proceeds victorious , and with increasing merit abides as ensample and intercessor in the church ...
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... plays not , like the St. Anne's play , of a cyclic character , were , from the first , dramatic units ; they represented a single general plot , generally of a single hero ; the action was focussed on the critical period of his life ...
... plays not , like the St. Anne's play , of a cyclic character , were , from the first , dramatic units ; they represented a single general plot , generally of a single hero ; the action was focussed on the critical period of his life ...
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... plays , two of which still exist . They possess no special importance for our present purpose . The Newcastle Shipwrights ' Play is the much battered survivor of a cycle that was in existence in 1426. The Ms. of the three Digby plays of ...
... plays , two of which still exist . They possess no special importance for our present purpose . The Newcastle Shipwrights ' Play is the much battered survivor of a cycle that was in existence in 1426. The Ms. of the three Digby plays of ...
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... play and the character of its humour make it diffi- cult to dissociate it from the work of the author of the Shepherds ' Plays , and I cannot doubt that this , also , at least in part , must be added to his credit . ” 1 To this ...
... play and the character of its humour make it diffi- cult to dissociate it from the work of the author of the Shepherds ' Plays , and I cannot doubt that this , also , at least in part , must be added to his credit . ” 1 To this ...
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