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Resolved one dramatic representation elaborately described by Collier into a satiric or sweetmeat. More scholarly writers, such as Dr. A. W. Ward, while dealing excellently with the medium] drama as literature, have shown themselves but little curious about the social and economic (acts upon which the mediaeval drama rested. Yet from a study of such facts, I am sure, any literary history, which does not confine itself solely to the analysis of genius, must make a start.
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