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From: Monarch Notes
Date: 19630101
Author:Wilde, Oscar

Wilde, Oscar
Monarch Notes
01-01-1963
The Plays

Dramatic Heritage:

English writers have produced some of the greatest plays in the world. In
the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries, William Shakespeare wrote
his plays, which are unmatched in dramatic literature. He was surrounded by
other writers who were also great but have been overshadowed by him. In the
late seventeenth century, a number of skilled writers wrote highly polished,
elegantly artificial comedies. (These are called Restoration comedies, because
they appeared during the time King Charles II (1660-1685) was restored to ...

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