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"Ends in marriage--a comedy. Filled with comic dialect accents--Welsh, Scottish, Irish, English, French: which Branagh cuts."

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"A priest argues successfully that a childless lady will please her senex hubby by conceiving by means of a dutiful young sub, possibly with a clerical collar.
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"Reflecting on Livy, NM rejects democracy (or a "republic" like Florence in previous century). Why? "It usually ends in Family Rule." Bushes? Clintons? Kennedies? --tho' he was thinking of the Medici.
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3.80 avg rating — 33,224 ratings

"Riotous, bec of Falstaff. When is a robbery not a robbery? When committed by a Knight or a Prince for public purposes. Consider the US $trillions for the Iraq war. Prince Hal, robber in swaddling clothes, "I know you all, and will awhile uphold the unyoked humor of your idleness…"
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3.81 avg rating — 88,778 ratings

"Parodies..found. "If a h(e)art do lack a hind/ Let him seek out Rosalind/...Winter garments must me lined/ So, for sure, must Rosalind…"
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3.65 avg rating — 16,219 ratings

"A physician thwarts death. Better than current restaurant discussions of medical problems. See Prognostications Pantegrueline: "This year, the fashionable woman will wear / Her face in front, her behind behind…""

3.82 avg rating — 68 ratings

"See 2014 trans by A Powers, performed at the Bridewell Theatre, Philippa Waller, Director, Tom Bruno Magdich, Producer. What could be more metadramatic than a character's feeling that he is in a play, and his interlocutor asking, "At what point in the play would you prefer to be?" The end, the end--he volunteers. And presto, out comes the Plaudite sign."

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