The Growth of English Drama by Arnold Wynne
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are early exercises in the style perfected by Marlowe's Barabas. The
whole story, from the stealing of the Sacred Host by Aristorius and its sale to Jonathas, right on through the villainous assaults, by the Jew and his confederates, upon its sanctity, and the miraculous manifestations of its power, to Jonathas's final conversion and the restoration of the sacrament, is a very fair example of the power which these Saint Plays possessed in the structure of plots. [Footnote 3: go.] [Footnote 4: being.] [Footnote 5: destroy.] [Footnote 6: pleasure.] [Footnote 7: might.] [Footnote 8: power.] [Footnote 9: wrought.] [Footnote 10: one.] [Footnote 11: realms.] [Footnote 12: more worthy.] [Footnote 13: injure.] |
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