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... wrote the two parts of Tamburlaine the Great . The first blank - verse play acted on the public stage . Examination of the two parts of Tam- burlaine the Great . Examination of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus . Examination of the ...
... wrote the two parts of Tamburlaine the Great . The first blank - verse play acted on the public stage . Examination of the two parts of Tam- burlaine the Great . Examination of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus . Examination of the ...
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... wrote another piece in a dramatic form , the body of which is in prose , although it has four choruses and an epilogue in rhyme , besides two didactic poems in the third act . It is called The Glasse off Government , a tragicall comedie ...
... wrote another piece in a dramatic form , the body of which is in prose , although it has four choruses and an epilogue in rhyme , besides two didactic poems in the third act . It is called The Glasse off Government , a tragicall comedie ...
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... Engl . Poet . iv . 197 , edit . 8vo . In the Household Accounts of Henry VII . and Henry VIII . , we meet with constant payments ' to the Stillminstrells . ' that Kinwelmarsh , though much less notorious , wrote as 8 THE HISTORY OF.
... Engl . Poet . iv . 197 , edit . 8vo . In the Household Accounts of Henry VII . and Henry VIII . , we meet with constant payments ' to the Stillminstrells . ' that Kinwelmarsh , though much less notorious , wrote as 8 THE HISTORY OF.
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... wrote as good blank verse as his predecessors , Sackville and Norton . O gentle daughter of king Edipus , O sister deare to that unhappy wight , ' Whom brothers rage hath reaved of his right , To whom thou knowest , in young and tender ...
... wrote as good blank verse as his predecessors , Sackville and Norton . O gentle daughter of king Edipus , O sister deare to that unhappy wight , ' Whom brothers rage hath reaved of his right , To whom thou knowest , in young and tender ...
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... - tion , ' only saw the tragedy as it stands in the edition of 1581 , which materially varies from the older copy . * Parbraking out is vomiting out . When Nevyle wrote in 1563 , the author was evidently 18 THE HISTORY OF.
... - tion , ' only saw the tragedy as it stands in the edition of 1581 , which materially varies from the older copy . * Parbraking out is vomiting out . When Nevyle wrote in 1563 , the author was evidently 18 THE HISTORY OF.
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