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  • His 'Life of Lope de Vega' (see note 4) was published in 1806, and 'Three Comedies from the Spanish', in

    Byron's Poetical Works, Volume 1 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

  • Within each period the so-called Comedies, Histories, and Tragedies are respectively grouped together; and for this reason, as well as for others, the order within each period does not profess to be chronological (_e. g._ it is not implied that the _Comedy of Errors_ preceded _1 Henry VI. _ or _Titus Andronicus_).

    Shakespearean Tragedy Lectures on Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth 1893

  • We find some specimen of the kind of tales called Comedies, which preceded acted Comedy, in the works of Chaucer, who died in 1400.

    History of English Humour, Vol. 1 (of 2) With an Introduction upon Ancient Humour Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange 1873

  • English Stage, chiefly in the Reign of King Charles the First; His Comedies were the Brides, Covent-Garden, Totnam Court, and the Woman-hater Arraigned.

    The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698 1687

  • Of his boyhood and youth we know nothing, unless it be from the glimpse he gives us in the preface to his "Comedies" of himself as a boy looking on with delight while Lope de Rueda and his company set up their rude plank stage in the plaza and acted the rustic farces which he himself afterwards took as the model of his interludes.

    Don Quixote 2002

  • Worthy of special praise were the editions of the "Comedies" of Terence, the "Odes" and "Liber de arte poetica" of Horace, the "Epigrams" of Martial, the

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

  • De Banville's other dramas, and it is not included in the pretty volume of "Comedies" which closes the Lemerre series of his poems.

    Essays in Little Andrew Lang 1878

  • His republished "Comedies" are more remote from experience than _Gringoire_, his characters are ideal creatures, familiar types of the stage, like Scapin and "le beau Leandre," or ethereal persons, or figures of old mythology, like Diana in _Diane au Bois_, and

    Essays in Little Andrew Lang 1878

  • "Comedies" of himself as a boy looking on with delight while Lope de

    Don Quixote Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 1581

  • "Comedies" of himself as a boy looking on with delight while Lope de

    The History of Don Quixote, Volume 1, Complete Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra 1581

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