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der the succession of Caesars began a greater moral decline than Rome had ever known . The outstanding Roman dramatist was the writer of comedies , Titus Maccius Plautus , born in 254 B.C. As a young man he came to Rome from the ...
der the succession of Caesars began a greater moral decline than Rome had ever known . The outstanding Roman dramatist was the writer of comedies , Titus Maccius Plautus , born in 254 B.C. As a young man he came to Rome from the ...
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Jonson wrote the well known poem , Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes , as well as his many plays , best - known of which are Epicene , or the Silent Woman , The Alchemist , and Every Man in His Humour . But another brief period of gloom ...
Jonson wrote the well known poem , Drink To Me Only With Thine Eyes , as well as his many plays , best - known of which are Epicene , or the Silent Woman , The Alchemist , and Every Man in His Humour . But another brief period of gloom ...
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One of the early names to herald the era was that of Alexandre Dumas , the younger , commonly known by the French term of Alexandre Dumas fils , or son . He was the illegitimate but acknowledged child of the romantic novelist and ...
One of the early names to herald the era was that of Alexandre Dumas , the younger , commonly known by the French term of Alexandre Dumas fils , or son . He was the illegitimate but acknowledged child of the romantic novelist and ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | A Pageant of the Theatre |
| Author | Edmund Fuller |
| Publisher | Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1941 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 24 Jul 2007 |
| Length | 270 pages |
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