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Pagina 172
... play - house , for the prop of an age . } Don Carlos , from which he is represented as having received so much benefit , was played in 1675. It appears , by the Lampoon , to have had great success , and is said to have been played ...
... play - house , for the prop of an age . } Don Carlos , from which he is represented as having received so much benefit , was played in 1675. It appears , by the Lampoon , to have had great success , and is said to have been played ...
Pagina 264
... play ; and he happened , says Dryden , to claim the promise just upon the finishing of a poem , when I would have been glad of a little respite . - Two thirds of it belonged to him ; and to me only the first scene of the play , the ...
... play ; and he happened , says Dryden , to claim the promise just upon the finishing of a poem , when I would have been glad of a little respite . - Two thirds of it belonged to him ; and to me only the first scene of the play , the ...
Pagina 267
... play was first acted in 1690 , after Dryden had for some years discontinued dramatick poetry . Amphitryon is a comedy derived from Plautus and Molière . The dedication is dated Oct. 1690. This play seems to have succeeded at its first ...
... play was first acted in 1690 , after Dryden had for some years discontinued dramatick poetry . Amphitryon is a comedy derived from Plautus and Molière . The dedication is dated Oct. 1690. This play seems to have succeeded at its first ...
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