Specimens of English Poetry and Prose: Wybor Poezji i Prozy Angielskiej, Volumes 1-2Państwowe Wydawn. Naukowe, 1964 - English literature |
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Page 193
... played . This is " Everyman " , which is al- most a minor classic in English literature . The character who gives his name to the play is a flourishing citizen . He is in the full enjoyment of this world's good things , when a Messenger ...
... played . This is " Everyman " , which is al- most a minor classic in English literature . The character who gives his name to the play is a flourishing citizen . He is in the full enjoyment of this world's good things , when a Messenger ...
Page 205
... play exists also in Dutch , entitled " Elckerlijk " , printed about 1495 , and attributed to Petrus Dorlandus , a monk from the town of Diest in Brabant . The earliest known English editions date about 1525. From the dates and the ...
... play exists also in Dutch , entitled " Elckerlijk " , printed about 1495 , and attributed to Petrus Dorlandus , a monk from the town of Diest in Brabant . The earliest known English editions date about 1525. From the dates and the ...
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... play from Ben Jonson , who was a careful and learned observer of the dramatic laws , and from all his comedies I shall select " The Silent Woman " , of which I will make a short examen , according to those rules which the French observe ...
... play from Ben Jonson , who was a careful and learned observer of the dramatic laws , and from all his comedies I shall select " The Silent Woman " , of which I will make a short examen , according to those rules which the French observe ...
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