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Tate, The History of King Lear (Dedicatory)
Epistle Dedicatory by Nahum Tate
Tags: 17th century, adaptations, genres, history, King Lear, revisions, Tate, tragedy
Dryden and Davenant, The Tempest, or the Enchanted Island (Pages 30-31)
Page 30: Dorinda and Hippolyto (played by a female actor) titillate and amuse the audience by their confusion as they discover sexual feeling, without knowing what it is, having been raised in isolation from society on the island.
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Page 31:…
Tags: 17th century, adaptations, Davenant, Dryden, revisions, romance, Tempest
Dryden and Davenant, The Tempest, or the Enchanted Island (Pages 12-15)
Page 12: Charged struggles between Caliban and Prospero (above) are upstaged by focus on Prospero’s daughters’ introductions to men. Here Prospero’s added daughter, Dorinda, enters for the first time (below).
Page 13: Miranda and Dorinda reveal…
Page 13: Miranda and Dorinda reveal…
Tags: 17th century, adaptations, Davenant, Dryden, revisions, romance, Tempest
Mr. William Shakespear's Comedies, Histories and Tragedies, Published according to the true Original Copies (Fourth Folio, Oldcastle)
Title Page of Sir John Oldcastle
Tags: 17th century, 18th century, apocrypha, Beaumont and Fletcher, editions, folios, Rowe
Mr. William Shakespear's Comedies, Histories and Tragedies, Published according to the true Original Copies (Fourth Folio, Catalogue)
Epitaph by Milton and Catalogue of Plays
Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories and Tragedies, Published according to the true Original Copies (Second Folio, Epitaph)
"Epitaph" on Shakespeare by John Milton (unnamed)
Tags: 17th century, editions, folios, Milton
Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories & Tragedies, Published according to the True Originall Copies (First Folio, Poems)
Two dedicatory poems by Ben Jonson and Hugh Holland
Tags: 17th century, folios, genres, Hugh Holland, Jonson
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