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But while Mr. Brook's "La Tragedie de Carmen" distilled Bizet's opera down to its violent, sexual core, "A Magic Flute" came across as lightweight and bland.
Pared 'Flute' Is a Muted Production Heidi Waleson 2011
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The OED still gives Coriolanus 1607 as a first use, but, as I point out in Think on My Words, Mary Sidney, the Countess of Pembroke, talks about ‘lonely ghosts’ in her Tragedie of Antonie, and that is 1592.
Archive 2010-09-01 DC 2010
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The OED still gives Coriolanus 1607 as a first use, but, as I point out in Think on My Words, Mary Sidney, the Countess of Pembroke, talks about ‘lonely ghosts’ in her Tragedie of Antonie, and that is 1592.
On updating and the OED DC 2010
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Which lamentable Tragedie I haue here againe reuiued, that the posteritie may neuer forget what trust may bee giuen to the oath of
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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And thus till I haue further time, this Tragedie I end.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Where nowe would one of our Tragedie writers begin, but with the deliverie of the Childe?
Defence of Poesie 1992
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But it is not the Tragedie they doe mislike, for it were too absurd to cast out so excellent a representation of whatsoever is most woothie to be learned.
Defence of Poesie 1992
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But how much it can move, Plutarch yeeldeth a notable testimonie of the abhominable Tyrant Alexander Pheraeus {87}, from whose eyes a Tragedie well made and represented, drew abundance of teares, who without all pittie had murthered infinite numbers, and some of his owne bloud: so as he that was not ashamed to make matters for Tragedies, yet could not resist the sweete violence of a Tragedie.
Defence of Poesie 1992
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And of the contrary part, if evill men come to the stage, they ever goe out (as the Tragedie writer answered to one that misliked the shew of such persons) so manicled as they litle animate folkes to follow them.
Defence of Poesie 1992
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The Tragedie of Julius Cæsar was first published in the (p. 205)
A Mother's List of Books for Children Gertrude Weld Arnold
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