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... written originally for private performance.1 A Midsummer Night's Dream was first written to be performed as part of a wedding fes- tivity before being adapted for the public theater ( or perhaps vice versa ) : it lacks the somewhat self ...
... written originally for private performance.1 A Midsummer Night's Dream was first written to be performed as part of a wedding fes- tivity before being adapted for the public theater ( or perhaps vice versa ) : it lacks the somewhat self ...
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... written before the collapse of all his political hopes with the Restoration , we cannot say . Some parts would appear to have been written between the writing of the Second Defence and his last pamphlets just before the Restoration ...
... written before the collapse of all his political hopes with the Restoration , we cannot say . Some parts would appear to have been written between the writing of the Second Defence and his last pamphlets just before the Restoration ...
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... written about 1500 , mentions many poets whose works have not come down to us . The earliest name in Scottish literature is Thomas the Rhymer , or Thomas of Ercildoune , who is supposed to have lived in the thirteenth century and to ...
... written about 1500 , mentions many poets whose works have not come down to us . The earliest name in Scottish literature is Thomas the Rhymer , or Thomas of Ercildoune , who is supposed to have lived in the thirteenth century and to ...
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