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But our comedians think there is no delight without laughter ; which is very wrong , for though laughter may come with delight , yet cometh it not of delight , as though delight should be the cause of laughter ; but well may one thing ...
But our comedians think there is no delight without laughter ; which is very wrong , for though laughter may come with delight , yet cometh it not of delight , as though delight should be the cause of laughter ; but well may one thing ...
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For example , we are ravished with delight to see a fair woman , and yet are far from being moved to laughter . We laugh at deformed creatures , wherein certainly we cannot delight . We delight in good chances , we laugh at mischances ...
For example , we are ravished with delight to see a fair woman , and yet are far from being moved to laughter . We laugh at deformed creatures , wherein certainly we cannot delight . We delight in good chances , we laugh at mischances ...
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Young yet in years , though old in wickedness , I began to resolve that there was nothing bad that was profitable ; whereupon I grew so rooted in all mischief that I had as great a delight in wickedness as sundry hath in godliness ...
Young yet in years , though old in wickedness , I began to resolve that there was nothing bad that was profitable ; whereupon I grew so rooted in all mischief that I had as great a delight in wickedness as sundry hath in godliness ...
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Contents
Introduction by J V Cunningham page | 11 |
Queen Elizabeth at Greenwich | 17 |
Julius Caesar at the Globe 1599 | 27 |
Copyright | |
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Bibliographic information
| Pealkiri | In Shakespeare's Day A Fawcett premier book, M471. Literature and ideas series Fawcett premier book Literature and ideas series |
| Editor | James Vincent Cunningham |
| Compiled by | James Vincent Cunningham |
| Publisher | Fawcett Publications, 1970 |
| Length | 351 pages |
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