The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: The Cambridge Text from the Latest Edition of William Aldis Wright; with Introductions, Notes and Glossaries to Each Play by Israel Gollancz. The Complete Notes, with Variorum Readings and General Glossary of Alexander Dyce; a General Introduction, and a Bibliography by W. J. Rolfe; a History of the Drama, and General Criticism by Henry N. Hudson and Others, and a Complete Character Index, Volume 20Colonial Press, 1901 |
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... Edward IV . For our knowledge of it we are indebted to Mr. Collier , who says " it is perhaps the only specimen of the kind in our language . " It is called The Play of the Blessed Sacrament , and is founded on a miracle alleged to have ...
... Edward IV . For our knowledge of it we are indebted to Mr. Collier , who says " it is perhaps the only specimen of the kind in our language . " It is called The Play of the Blessed Sacrament , and is founded on a miracle alleged to have ...
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... Edward IV . For our knowledge of it we are indebted to Mr. Collier , who says " it is perhaps the only specimen of the kind in our language . " It is called The Play of the Blessed Sacrament , and is founded on a miracle alleged to have ...
... Edward IV . For our knowledge of it we are indebted to Mr. Collier , who says " it is perhaps the only specimen of the kind in our language . " It is called The Play of the Blessed Sacrament , and is founded on a miracle alleged to have ...
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... Edward Gregory , who at the end calls himself " a scholar of Bunbury , " and adds that the writing was finished in 1591.1 Mr. Markland makes out a strong probability that Miracle - plays were first acted at Chester in 1268 , only four ...
... Edward Gregory , who at the end calls himself " a scholar of Bunbury , " and adds that the writing was finished in 1591.1 Mr. Markland makes out a strong probability that Miracle - plays were first acted at Chester in 1268 , only four ...
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... Edward III . , which began in 1327. For Chaucer alludes to " plays of miracles " as things of common occurrence , and in The Milleres Tale he makes it a prominent feature of the parish clerk , " this Absolon , that joly was and gay ...
... Edward III . , which began in 1327. For Chaucer alludes to " plays of miracles " as things of common occurrence , and in The Milleres Tale he makes it a prominent feature of the parish clerk , " this Absolon , that joly was and gay ...
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... Edward Stalbridge printed abroad The Epistle Exhortatory of an English Chris- tian to his dearly - beloved Country , which has the fol- lowing , addressed to the Romanists , and evidently an account of the latter entertainment as ...
... Edward Stalbridge printed abroad The Epistle Exhortatory of an English Chris- tian to his dearly - beloved Country , which has the fol- lowing , addressed to the Romanists , and evidently an account of the latter entertainment as ...
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