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He wrote plays himself , and successful plays , like Jane Shore . He saw them acted on the stage , with that very " gay Lothario " who first makes his bow as a familiar figure in The Fair Penitent . He knew the stage somewhat in the ...
He wrote plays himself , and successful plays , like Jane Shore . He saw them acted on the stage , with that very " gay Lothario " who first makes his bow as a familiar figure in The Fair Penitent . He knew the stage somewhat in the ...
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more respectable than a popular play . ... was often esteemed a low form of literature , and secondly , that the acting companies were the owners of successful plays and thought they had sound reasons for hindering publication .
more respectable than a popular play . ... was often esteemed a low form of literature , and secondly , that the acting companies were the owners of successful plays and thought they had sound reasons for hindering publication .
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But even the university set knew of him , and we close this part of our chronicle with citations from the very amusing topical play , The Return from Parnassus , published in 1606 , which we are glad to find made readily accessible in ...
But even the university set knew of him , and we close this part of our chronicle with citations from the very amusing topical play , The Return from Parnassus , published in 1606 , which we are glad to find made readily accessible in ...
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Contents
EARLY BIOGRAPHY AND ANECDOTE | 1 |
CRITICISM AND REPUTATION AMONG | 49 |
SOCIAL STANDING AND PERSONAL REP | 94 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Materials for the Life of Shakespeare |
| Editor | Pierce Butler |
| Compiled by | Pierce Butler |
| Publisher | University of North Carolina Press, 1930 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 3 Dec 2007 |
| Length | 200 pages |
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