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... play a tragicomedy , as Fletcher does The Faithful Shepherdess . Beaumont's first play is a spirited and well - written piece which should have had a considerable appeal , but so far as we know it was not a success , and neither was his ...
... play a tragicomedy , as Fletcher does The Faithful Shepherdess . Beaumont's first play is a spirited and well - written piece which should have had a considerable appeal , but so far as we know it was not a success , and neither was his ...
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... play is neither comic nor tragic but something in between , and results from a presentation of hypothetical characters in hypothetical situations . The world of the play is far removed from actuality . In Cupid's Revenge , although the ...
... play is neither comic nor tragic but something in between , and results from a presentation of hypothetical characters in hypothetical situations . The world of the play is far removed from actuality . In Cupid's Revenge , although the ...
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... plays could be added to the group , but the mixture is nowhere more apparent than in these four . In The Nice Valor the conspicuous disparity between the elements of the play may be partly the result of ineffective collaboration or of ...
... plays could be added to the group , but the mixture is nowhere more apparent than in these four . In The Nice Valor the conspicuous disparity between the elements of the play may be partly the result of ineffective collaboration or of ...
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