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  • ...ted by him. When Charles II assumed the throne, Stapylton became again a Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to him, dying in London in 1669. (See Kelly; Bentley, ...he anonymous author was Sir Robert Stapylton, translator, drama-lover, and Gentleman of the Privy Chamber to the Prince. I would therefore propose that ''Pasto
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  • In'' Merrie conceited iests of George Peele Gentleman'' (first published in 1607)'' ''Peele is identified as a recognised City pa [George Peele], ''Merrie conceited iests of George Peele Gentleman sometimes a student in Oxford. Wherein is shevved the course of his life, h
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  • ...1596. Eccles observes that Elizabeth's "father, Henry Smart of the Strand, gentleman, bequeathed to his only child Elizabeth valuable houses in the Strand just
    5 members (4 subcategories, 0 files) - 11:53, 19 April 2022
  • | [[Jewish Gentleman]]||[[1640]]||[[Brome, Richard|Brome]]||[[:category:Unknown|Unknown]]
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  • Current scholarly consensus is to expand "The Irish Gent." to “The Irish Gentleman.” ...his is, indeed, a play. In the third edition of the ''Annals'', “The Irish Gentleman” is listed as an anonymous play.
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  • :The gentleman Vsher
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  • ...woman who murders her husband in order to pursue the affections of a young gentleman she doted on. The husband’s ghost subsequently haunts the woman. ...-urged, she told them, that seuen yeares ago, she, to be possest of such a Gentleman (meaning him) had poysoned her husband, whose fearefull image personated it
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  • ...viewTranscripts.jsp?play=LS&act=1&type=BOTH ''The Love Sick Court''] as a "gentleman belonging to the King". Intriguingly, "Agnostus" appears as a character ("a
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  • Richard Brome, ''A Mad Couple Well Matched''. The rakish gentleman Careless and his servant Wat are penniless, and discussing how to make some :O base Villaine! No I'le never fall so deep below a Gentleman, as to be Master of a Baudy-house.
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  • (Jordan, "A Gentleman in love with twenty Mistresses", in ''Poetical Varieties'', 2).
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  • ...as once content to be “Goodman Tailor” but now styles himself “Merchant or Gentleman-Merchant-Tailor” (p. 30). Another is the professional whose very work is
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  • ...eleases a great devil out of her mouth. In return for his assistance, the gentleman grants the Prior an enormous load of lead for the roof of a new church. Th
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  • ...ntice represented by plays such as ''The Four Prentices''; ''A Shoemaker a Gentleman''; and Thomas Rawlins' ''The Rebellion''.
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  • ...): "Dr Furnivall told me many years ago that the MS. was in the hands of a gentleman at Oxford, who was editing Tourneur's Works; but I have heard nothing furth The "gentleman at Oxford" referred to by Hazlitt might also be Collins himself, who began
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  • | Gentleman Vsher.
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  • ...cording to the city order, Stafferton "brought a disordered companye of of gentleman of the Innes of Courte & others, to assalte Arthur Kynge, Thomas Goodale, a
    1 member (0 subcategories, 0 files) - 11:32, 21 March 2022
  • ...thief” may indicate that the narrative was based on the convention of the gentleman robber, most famously embodied by the figure of Robin Hood but also encompa
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  • ...dward Alleyn: 1566-1616,'' in ''Edward Alleyn: Elizabethan Actor, Jacobean Gentleman''. Aileen Reid and Robert Maniura (eds). Dulwich Picture Gallery, 1994.</di
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  • :[Receaved by mee George Chapman gentleman of M<sup>r</sup>]
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  • ...etter, a ring, gold, blue coats, slops, a rapier, a false beard, a country gentleman's attire with padding, a nightgown, and "physicians' gowns" of fustian (Car
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