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... later centuries , rather than the scanty fragments left from Menander . Roman comedy also sprang in part from improvised folk plays in the provinces outside the city . Etruria was especially rich in comic imagination . These plays were ...
... later centuries , rather than the scanty fragments left from Menander . Roman comedy also sprang in part from improvised folk plays in the provinces outside the city . Etruria was especially rich in comic imagination . These plays were ...
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... later date . When he came back to England , Sheridan was harassed into fighting two duels over the matter with the persistent Captain Matthews , and was severely wounded in the second of these . It is likely that the quarrel- some ...
... later date . When he came back to England , Sheridan was harassed into fighting two duels over the matter with the persistent Captain Matthews , and was severely wounded in the second of these . It is likely that the quarrel- some ...
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... later and first performed in the United States by Richard Mansfield , of whom we shall speak later . The comedy is one of what Shaw called " Three Plays for Puritans , " and one of its high points of comic genius presents Gentlemanly ...
... later and first performed in the United States by Richard Mansfield , of whom we shall speak later . The comedy is one of what Shaw called " Three Plays for Puritans , " and one of its high points of comic genius presents Gentlemanly ...
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