Yale Studies in English, Volumes 46-471913 |
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... better book to us , Of which we ' ll speak our minds amids our meat . This would seem to indicate that Jonson's servant was not absolutely a menial , but was either a man of some education or of such intelligence that Jonson might ...
... better book to us , Of which we ' ll speak our minds amids our meat . This would seem to indicate that Jonson's servant was not absolutely a menial , but was either a man of some education or of such intelligence that Jonson might ...
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... better offer , and the new contract was not signed . The most interesting items here are the limit of three plays a year , and special provision that Brome should not be allowed to publish any of his own plays without the con- sent of ...
... better offer , and the new contract was not signed . The most interesting items here are the limit of three plays a year , and special provision that Brome should not be allowed to publish any of his own plays without the con- sent of ...
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... better favor , about which details are not given . ' Further light is thrown on these facts by the curious note appended to the Antipodes in the quarto of 1640 . It reads ' Courteous Reader , You shal find in this Book more than was ...
... better favor , about which details are not given . ' Further light is thrown on these facts by the curious note appended to the Antipodes in the quarto of 1640 . It reads ' Courteous Reader , You shal find in this Book more than was ...
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... better Brome's position in the history of drama , it may be well to place him with respect to his contemporaries . At the time he began to be prominent as a dramatist , most of the important Elizabethan and Jacobean writers were either ...
... better Brome's position in the history of drama , it may be well to place him with respect to his contemporaries . At the time he began to be prominent as a dramatist , most of the important Elizabethan and Jacobean writers were either ...
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... better . In Brome , English drama reached an extreme of intricacy which has never been equaled , and never can be sur- passed without a hopeless entanglement of the wits of the audience . Even one of the characters in the Sparagus ...
... better . In Brome , English drama reached an extreme of intricacy which has never been equaled , and never can be sur- passed without a hopeless entanglement of the wits of the audience . Even one of the characters in the Sparagus ...
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