Fletcher, Beaumont & Company, Entertainers to the Jacobean GentryStudies the tragicomedies of Fletcher and Beaumont to fill a gap in the history of the repudiations of the Elizabeth-Stuart playwrights and thus have an additional usefulness for readers of Jacobean drama. |
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... spectators of whatever political opinions would have had mixed feelings , by Act V , about Maximus . It was for such reasons that they could accept Maximus ' sudden and corrupt ambition as plausible , but sense that this unstable figure ...
... spectators of whatever political opinions would have had mixed feelings , by Act V , about Maximus . It was for such reasons that they could accept Maximus ' sudden and corrupt ambition as plausible , but sense that this unstable figure ...
Page 239
... spectators for the brief three hours ' traffic of the playhouse . And so , in drama after drama , they proceeded " to set characters in a state of high commotion , " 96 and to keep them in that state by every theatrical device that ...
... spectators for the brief three hours ' traffic of the playhouse . And so , in drama after drama , they proceeded " to set characters in a state of high commotion , " 96 and to keep them in that state by every theatrical device that ...
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... Spectator , 8 vols . in 4 , Everyman's Library edition , London and New York , n.d. , vol . V ( 3 ) , p . 160 . 15. Joseph Addison : The Spectator : No. 40 , Monday , April 16 , 1711 , Every- man's Library edition , vol . I , pp . 147 ...
... Spectator , 8 vols . in 4 , Everyman's Library edition , London and New York , n.d. , vol . V ( 3 ) , p . 160 . 15. Joseph Addison : The Spectator : No. 40 , Monday , April 16 , 1711 , Every- man's Library edition , vol . I , pp . 147 ...
Contents
Decline of a Reputation | 3 |
REINTERPRETATION | 129 |
The Plays on the Stage Since 1700 | 243 |
Copyright | |
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