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... play , Tamburlaine , in or about 1587 , the year he came down from Cam- bridge , and followed it up the following year with Doctor Faustus . His third play was The Jew of Malta and his fourth , Edward II , was the first successful ...
... play , Tamburlaine , in or about 1587 , the year he came down from Cam- bridge , and followed it up the following year with Doctor Faustus . His third play was The Jew of Malta and his fourth , Edward II , was the first successful ...
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... plays . The point that matters is that they express in incomparably lovely language a young poet's deepest emotions . Love's Labour Lost , Shakespeare's next play , was the only one for which he invented the plot . Men try in vain to ...
... plays . The point that matters is that they express in incomparably lovely language a young poet's deepest emotions . Love's Labour Lost , Shakespeare's next play , was the only one for which he invented the plot . Men try in vain to ...
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... play in which so many of the characters die violently , but it is scarcely for this reason that Hamlet is the world's best known play . The answer lies in the fact that in this play every reader sees himself as Hamlet . His problem is ...
... play in which so many of the characters die violently , but it is scarcely for this reason that Hamlet is the world's best known play . The answer lies in the fact that in this play every reader sees himself as Hamlet . His problem is ...
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SIR THOMAS MALORY 1413?1470 | 18 |
EDMUND SPENSER 15521599 | 24 |
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE 15641593 | 38 |
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