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Bickerstaffe, which is very strange, and much to our admiration, it being against all open justice.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 07: August/September 1660 Samuel Pepys 1668
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Thence to the Privy Seal to see how things went there, and I find that Mr. Baron had by a severe warrant from the King got possession of the office from his brother Bickerstaffe, which is very strange, and much to our admiration, it being against all open justice.
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Aug/Sep 1660 Pepys, Samuel 1660
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a severe warrant from the King got possession of the office from his brother Bickerstaffe, which is very strange, and much to our admiration, it being against all open justice.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668
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a severe warrant from the King got possession of the office from his brother Bickerstaffe, which is very strange, and much to our admiration, it being against all open justice.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1660 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668
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As far as I know there is no evidence that either Lewis or Quick were homosexual; of course, no actor could be labeled a sodomite in a visible way since it was a capital offense — thus, the playwright, Bickerstaffe, fled the country when he was accused of this "crime."
'Pleasure is now, and ought to be, your business': Stealing Sexuality in Jane Austen's _Juvenilia_ 2006
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Bickerstaffe, who had fled the country on the basis of
'Manlius to Peter Pindar':Satire, Patriotism, and Masculinity in the 1790s 2006
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Furthermore, both of the operas spin in and out of ideological orbit with Richardson's novel Pamela; or Virtue Rewarded (1740-41), which in turn was rewritten by the Venetian playwright Carlo Goldoni in his dramatic adaptation Le Pamela Nubile (1753), the Irish playwright Isaac Bickerstaffe as the comic opera The Maid of the Mill (1765), and which then was later adapted and transformed by
Talking About Virtue: Paisiello's 'Nina,' Paër's 'Agnese,' and the Sentimental Ethos 2005
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Isaac Bickerstaffe as the comic opera The Maid of the Mill
Article Abstracts 2005
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Tasks of the finance function, in Dickson, T. and Bickerstaffe, G. (Editors): Financial Times Mastering Management: 62-64.
ANC Today 2007
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Powell, Booth, Bickerstaffe, Keen, and Leigh, are stated to have defied and beaten Aaron Hill, to have broken open the doors of the theatre, and made a riot generally.
An Apology for the Life of Mr. Colley Cibber, Volume II 1889
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