John Gay's The Beggar's OperaHarold Bloom Chelsea House Publishers, 1988 - 143 Seiten |
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... writes to Swift : As for the reigning Amusement of the town , tis entirely Musick . Real fiddles , Bass Vials [ sic ] and Hautboys not Poetical Harps , Lyres , and reeds . Theres [ sic ] nobody al- low'd to say I sing but an Eunuch or ...
... writes to Swift : As for the reigning Amusement of the town , tis entirely Musick . Real fiddles , Bass Vials [ sic ] and Hautboys not Poetical Harps , Lyres , and reeds . Theres [ sic ] nobody al- low'd to say I sing but an Eunuch or ...
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... - ates much of its lightheartedness , subsuming somewhat its satiric qualities . But I will begin with hanging , ostensibly one of the more horrifying aspects of the eighteenth century . Peter Linebaugh writes 108 / MICHAEL DENNING.
... - ates much of its lightheartedness , subsuming somewhat its satiric qualities . But I will begin with hanging , ostensibly one of the more horrifying aspects of the eighteenth century . Peter Linebaugh writes 108 / MICHAEL DENNING.
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... writes of " the insatiable curiosity that drove spectators to the scaffold to wit- ness the spectacle of sufferings truly endured ; there one could deci- pher crime and innocence , the past and the future , the here below and the ...
... writes of " the insatiable curiosity that drove spectators to the scaffold to wit- ness the spectacle of sufferings truly endured ; there one could deci- pher crime and innocence , the past and the future , the here below and the ...
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Mockpastoral as the Cult | 5 |
Mercenary Fathers Possessive Daughters | 37 |
The Beggars Triumph | 43 |
Urheberrecht | |
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