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Dr Faustus: Christopher Marlowe

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Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre
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My lecture on this infernal play discusses Elizabethan religion, the revisions to the play, and whether we should think about James Bond in its final minutes.

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Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre
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Emma Smith
Keywords
language
theatre
elizabethan
play
playwright
english
Department: Faculty of English Language and Literature
Date Added: 26/10/2015
Duration: 00:49:10

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