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... persons to whom the events pre- viously occurred . The style of the plays and their perform- ance is very rigid . What we shall chiefly enjoy is the spectacle , for again we find lavishly beautiful costumes and a style of acting that is ...
... persons to whom the events pre- viously occurred . The style of the plays and their perform- ance is very rigid . What we shall chiefly enjoy is the spectacle , for again we find lavishly beautiful costumes and a style of acting that is ...
Page 80
... person's sentence in Purga- tory . As all persons then believed in this period of prelimi- nary purification - by - suffering before admission to Heaven , such an offer must have been more tempting to the people than any amount of free ...
... person's sentence in Purga- tory . As all persons then believed in this period of prelimi- nary purification - by - suffering before admission to Heaven , such an offer must have been more tempting to the people than any amount of free ...
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... persons were im- prisoned or beheaded for it . A warrant for Marlowe's arrest on the charge of heresy had been issued a short while before the stabbing in the tavern at Deptford . Some suppose that his death was plotted for fear he ...
... persons were im- prisoned or beheaded for it . A warrant for Marlowe's arrest on the charge of heresy had been issued a short while before the stabbing in the tavern at Deptford . Some suppose that his death was plotted for fear he ...
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