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'Peg' was supreme in comic parts but was also celebrated for her Shakespearean roles. She was known for her bitter rivalries with other actresses and for her supposed love affairs, most notably with David Garrick who wrote 'My Lovely Peggy' and other songs
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Category： Author：novel
This Romance was the last work of Cervantes, the dedication to the Count de Lemos was written the day after he had received extreme unction; he died four days after, on the 23rd of April 1616, aged 67. On that same day in that same year England lost her Shakespeare.
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Category： Author：novel
The writings of Shakespeare have been justly termed “the richest, the purest, the fairest, that genius uninspired ever penned.”
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IT was in the middle of the fifteenth century, a little before the year 1450, to be precise, that there wandered into the streets of Nuremberg a working man, a common coppersmith, one Hermann Vischer by name. He came no one knows whence. He came one can easily imagine why. Like the father of Albert Dürer, and in the same decade, he was...
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One of the commonly misunderstood phrases in the language is \"the Spanish Main.\" To the ordinary individual it suggests the Caribbean Sea. Although Shakespeare in \"Othello,\" makes one of the gentlemen of Cyprus say that he \"cannot \'twixt heaven and main descry a sail,\" and, therefore, with other poets, gives warrant to the appli...
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Category： Author：novel
In the twenty tales told in this book, Charles & Mary Lamb succeeded in paraphrasing the language of truly adult literature in children’s terms. Let us not underestimate young readers: they love a complex story with many and varied characters, twists of plot, and turns of fate as much as anyone — but they draw the line at reading in un...
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Category： Author：Mark Twain
Is Shakespeare Dead? is a short, semi-autobiographical work by American humorist Mark Twain. It explores the controversy
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Category： Author：Edward Payson Roe
IT HAS been said that a good critique on a poem may be written by one who is no poet himself. This, according to your idea and mine of poetry, I feel to be false — the less poetical the critic, the less just the critique, and the converse. On this account, and because the world’s good opinion as proud of your own. Another than yourself...
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Category： Author：George Gissing
George Gissing was an English novelist, who wrote twenty-three novels between 1880 and 1903. Although his early works are naturalistic, he developed into one of the the most accomplished realists of the late-Victorian era. Born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, to lower-middle class parents, Gissing went on to win a scholarship to Owens College...
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Category： Author：Leslie Stephen
Samuel Johnson (Samuel Johnson said), the British writer and critic. (1709-1784) English literary history important poet, prose writer, biography home and talkative home, compilation of the dictionary of English development made a significant contribution. And as Johnson, he is also a generation of leader of the literary world at that ...
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