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  • Comedy: Authorship : clippings.

    • 1 Item
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    *T-CLP (Comedy: Authorship)Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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  • Fearless vulgarity : Jacqueline Susann's queer comedy and camp authorship / Ken Feil.

    • Text
    • Detroit, Michigan : Wayne State University Press, [2023]
    • 2023-2023
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFE 23-1158Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • The craft of comedy writing / Sol Saks.

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    • Cincinnati, Ohio : Writer's Digest Books, c1985.
    • 1985
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFE 86-91Schwarzman Building M2 - General Research Room 315

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  • Comedy writing for television and Hollywood / Milt Josefsberg.

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    • New York : Perennial Library, c1987.
    • 1987
    • 1 Item
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    Text MWGR 93-3242Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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  • Creating comedy narratives for stage and screen / Chris Head.

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    • London, UK ; New York, NY : Methuen Drama, 2021.
    • 2021
    • 1 Item
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    Text MFL 21-2167Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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  • Writing television comedy / Jerry Rannow.

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    • New York : Allworth Press, c1999.
    • 1999
    • 1 Item
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    Text MWGR 00-2650Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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  • How to write television comedy.

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    • Boston, The Writer [1958]
    • 1958
    • 1 Item
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    Text MWGR (Settel, I. How to write television comedy)Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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  • Comedy writing secrets / by Melvin Helitzer.

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    • Cincinnati, Ohio : Writer's Digest Books, c1987.
    • 1987
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFE 87-2854Schwarzman Building M2 - General Research Room 315

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  • Broadcast writing : dramas, comedies, and documentaries / Ken Dancyger.

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    • Boston : Focal Press, c1991.
    • 1991
    • 1 Item
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    Text MWGD 91-8052Offsite
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  • Writing the comedy movie / Marc Blake.

    • Text
    • New York, NY : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016.
    • 2016-2016
    • 1 Item
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    Text MFLF 16-209Offsite
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  • Templates for authorship : American women's literary autobiography of the 1930s / Windy Counsell Petrie.

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    • Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2021]
    • 2021
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFE 21-3817Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Bring the funny : the essential companion for the comedy screenwriter / Greg DePaul.

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    • New York, NY ; Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2017.
    • 2017-2017
    • 1 Item
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    Text MFLF 16-5098Offsite
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  • Radio drama and comedy writers, 1928-1962 / Ryan Ellett.

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    • Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2017]
    • 2017-2017
    • 1 Item
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    Text MWER 18-1475Offsite
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  • Laughing out loud [electronic resource] : writing the comedy-centered screenplay / Andrew Horton.

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    • Berkeley : University of California Press, c2000.
    • 2000
    • 2 Resources

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  • Writing comedy : a guide to scriptwriting for TV, radio, film and stage / Ronald Wolfe.

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    • London : Robert Hale, 2003.
    • 2003
    • 1 Item
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    Text MWGD 04-791Offsite
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  • Radio comedy: how to write it : including the mathematics of humor / Art Henley.

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    • [New York : "Humor Business"], 1948.
    • 1948
    • 1 Item
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    Text NAFD (Henley, A. Radio comedy) v. 1-4Schwarzman Building M2 - General Research Room 315

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  • Laughing out loud [electronic resource] : writing the comedy-centered screenplay / Andrew Horton.

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    • Berkeley : University of California Press, c2000.
    • 2000
    • 1 Resource

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    https://hdl-handle-net.i.ezproxy.nypl.org/2027/heb.08103
  • Aristotle on comedy : towards a reconstruction of Poetics II / Richard Janko.

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    • Berkeley : University of California Press, 1984.
    • 1984
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFD 84-7425Schwarzman Building M2 - General Research Room 315

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  • Laughing out loud : writing the comedy-centered screenplay / Andrew Horton.

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    • Berkeley : University of California Press, c2000.
    • 2000
    • 1 Item
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    Text MFLF 00-3429Offsite
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  • The comedy market : a writer's guide to making money being funny / Carmine DeSena.

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    • New York, N.Y. : Berkley Pub., 1996.
    • 1996
    • 1 Item
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    Text MWET 96-14419Offsite
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  • The comedy bible : the complete resource for aspiring comedians / Brian McKim & Traci Skene.

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    • Hauppauge, NY : Barrons, 2011.
    • 2011
    • 1 Item
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    Text MWET 13-1276Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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  • The satirical comedy, Love's labour's lost: a study by Eva Turner Clark.

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    • New York, W.F. Payson, 1933.
    • 1933
    • 2 Items
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    Text *NCVF (Love's) (Clark, E. L. T. Satirical comedy, Love's labour's lost)Offsite
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    Text *NCVF (Love's) (Clark, E. L. T. Satirical comedy, Love's labour's lost) Copy 2Offsite
  • Funny business : conversations with writers of comedy / compiled and edited by Leonard S. Marcus.

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    • Somerville, Mass. : Candlewick Press, 2009.
    • 2009
    • 1 Item

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    http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0819/2008024231.html
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    Text JFE 10-2517Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • The puritan: or, the widow of Watling-Street. [electronic resource] : A comedy. By Shakespear.

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    • London : printed by R. Walker; and may be had at hi [sic] shop, 1734.
    • 1734
    • 1 Resource

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    http://find.galegroup.com/ecco/infomark.do?contentSet=ECCOArticles&docType=ECCOArticles&bookId=0321401100&type=getFullCitation&tabID=T001&prodId=ECCO&docLevel=TEXT_GRAPHICS&version=1.0&source=library&userGroupName=nypl
  • Comedy techniques for writers and performers : the hearts theory of humor writing / by Melvin Helitzer.

    • Text
    • Athens, Ohio : Lawhead Press, c1984.
    • 1984
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFE 86-5137Schwarzman Building M2 - General Research Room 315

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  • The ladies visiting-day. A comedy. As it was acted at the theatre in Lincolns-Inn-Fields, by His Majesties servants. With the addition of a new scene. By the author of The reformed wife.

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    • London, P. Buck, 1701.
    • 1701
    • 1 Item
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    Text NCL (Burnaby, W. Ladies visiting-day)Offsite
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  • Radio-Comedy / Rainer Dachselt, Ingo Schwarz, Stefan Sprang.

    • Text
    • Konstanz : UVK, c2003.
    • 2003
    • 1 Item
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    Text PN1991.8.C65 D33 2003Off-site
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  • How the great comedy writers create laughter / Larry Wilde.

    • Text
    • Chicago : Nelson-Hall, c1976.
    • 1976
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFD 76-8928Schwarzman Building M2 - General Research Room 315

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  • Writing the comedy pilot script : a step-by-step guide to creating an original TV series / Manny Basanese.

    • Text
    • Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2022.
    • 2022-2022
    • 1 Item
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    Text MWGR 22-1074Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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  • Writing the romantic comedy : the art and craft of writing screenplays that sell / Billy Mernit.

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    • New York : HarperResource, c2000.
    • 2000
    • 1 Item
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    Text MFLF 00-12516Offsite
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  • Now that's funny! : conversations with comedy writers / David Bradbury and Joe McGrath ; drawings by Joe McGrath.

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    • London : Methuen, 1998.
    • 1998
    • 1 Item
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    Text Off-site
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  • Ralph Crane and some Shakespeare first folio comedies [by] T. H. Howard-Hill.

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    • Charlottesville, Published for the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia [by] University Press of Virginia [1972]
    • 1972
    • 1 Item
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    Text PR3070 .H75 1972Off-site
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  • Ralph Crane and some Shakespeare first folio comedies [by] T. H. Howard-Hill.

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    • Charlottesville, Published for the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia [by] University Press of Virginia [1972]
    • 1972
    • 1 Item
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  • Celestina, or, The tragi-comedy of Calisto and Melibea / translated from the Spanish by James Mabbe, anno 1631; also, An interlude of Calisto and Melebea (for the first time accurately reproduced from the original copy) printed by John Rastell, circa 1530. Edited with introduction on the picaresque novel, and appendices, by H. Warner Allen.

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    • London : G. Routledge & Sons, Limited ; New York : E.P. Dutton & Co., [1908]
    • 1908
    • 1 Item
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    Text PQ6427 .E56 1908Off-site
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  • Celestina, or, The tragi-comedy of Calisto and Melibea / translated from the Spanish by James Mabbe, anno 1631; also, An interlude of Calisto and Melebea (for the first time accurately reproduced from the original copy) printed by John Rastell, circa 1530. Edited with introduction on the picaresque novel, and appendices, by H. Warner Allen.

    • Text
    • London : G. Routledge & Sons, Limited ; New York : E.P. Dutton & Co., [1908]
    • 1908
    • 1 Item
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  • Zur Verfasserfrage des Dekkerschen Stückes "The pleasant comedy of Old Fortunatus" / von Heinz Thieme.

    • Text
    • Borna-Leipzig : R. Noske, 1934.
    • 1934
    • 1 Item
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    Text NAFH p.v. 148 no. 1-6Schwarzman Building M2 - General Research Room 315

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  • Shakespearian acrostics, a demonstration of the marginal words in the first folio of "Mr. William Shakespeare's" comedies, histories and tragedies, by Edward D. Johnson ...

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    • 1942
    • 1 Item
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    Text 823SA3 J623Off-site
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  • Writing humor : creativity and the comic mind / Mary Ann Rishel.

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    • Detroit : Wayne State University Press, c2002.
    • 2002
    • 1 Item

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    Text JFE 02-11348Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • The would-be author : Molière and the comedy of print / Michael Call.

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    • West Lafayette, Indiana : Purdue University Press, [2015]
    • 2015
    • 1 Item
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    Text PQ1860 .C35 2015Off-site
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  • How not to write a sitcom : 100 mistakes to avoid if you ever want to get produced / Marc Blake.

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    • London : A & C Black : New York : available in USA from Bloomsbury Academic, 2011.
    • 2011
    • 1 Item
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    Text MWGR 13-3084Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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  • Make 'em laugh / Steve Allen.

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    • Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1993.
    • 1993
    • 1 Item
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    Text PN6149.A88 A46 1993Off-site
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  • Make 'em laugh / Steve Allen.

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    • Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1993.
    • 1993
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFE 95-838Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • The Big secret live 'I am Shakespeare' webcam daytime chatroom show! : a comedy of Shakespearean identity crisis / Mark Rylance.

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    • London : Nick Hern, 2012.
    • 2012
    • 1 Item
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    Text PR6118.Y53 B54 2012Off-site
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  • I'll have what she's having : how Nora Ephron's three iconic films saved the romantic comedy / Erin Carlson.

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    • New York : Hachette Books, 2017.
    • 2017
    • 1 Item
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    Text MWEM (Ephron, N.) 17-3644Offsite
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  • The big secret live 'I am Shakespeare' webcam daytime chatroom show! : a comedy of Shakespearean identity crisis / Mark Rylance.

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    • London : Nick Hern Books, 2012.
    • 2012
    • 1 Item
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    Text JFD 13-490Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Gl'Ingannati degli accademici intronati di Siena : an Italian comedy of the sixteenth century.

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    • Edinburgh ; London : Oliver and Boyd, 1943.
    • 1943
    • 1 Item
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    Text NAFH p.v. 560 no. 1-5Schwarzman Building M2 - General Research Room 315

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  • Milt & Marty : the longest lasting & least successful comedy writing duo in show biz history / Tom Leopold & Bob Sand.

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    • New York : Virgin Books : Distributed by Macmillan, c2008.
    • 2008
    • 1 Item
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    Text PS3562.E59 M55 2008Off-site
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  • Pedantius; a Latin comedy formerly acted in Trinity college, Cambridge. Edited by G. C. Moore Smith ...

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    • Louvain, A. Uystpruyst; [etc., etc.] 1905.
    • 1905
    • 1 Item
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    Text NCO+ (Materialien zur Kunde des alteren englischen. Dramas. Bd.8)Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Pedantius; a Latin comedy formerly acted in Trinity college, Cambridge. Edited by G. C. Moore Smith ...

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    • Louvain, A. Uystpruyst; [etc., etc.] 1905.
    • 1905
    • 1 Item
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    Text 2949.705Off-site
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  • Pedantius; a Latin comedy formerly acted in Trinity college, Cambridge. Edited by G.C. Moore Smith ...

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    • Louvain, A. Uystpruyst 1905.
    • 1905
    • 1 Item
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