The Framing Text in Early Modern English Drama : 'Whining' Prologues and 'Armed' Epilogues 9781317031369, 9781409410171

Though individual prologues and epilogues have been treated in depth, very little scholarship has been published on earl

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The Framing Text in Early Modern English Drama : 'Whining' Prologues and 'Armed' Epilogues
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The Old English Boethius boldly refashions in Anglo-Saxon guise a great literary monument of the late-antique world, The

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