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121Augustan drama — [ riot at Covent Garden s Royal Theatre in 1762 over a rumored increase in ticket prices. Although drama declined in the Augustan era, it was still popular entertainment.] Augustan drama can refer to the dramas of Ancient Rome during the reign of …
122Elizabeth Griffith — Elizabeth Griffith, née Griffith ( c. 1727 ndash; 1793), was an eighteenth century Irish dramatist, fiction writer, essayist and actress, best known for her edition of Shakespeare s comedies published in 1775. Biography Griffith was born in Wales …
123The Ladder of Divine Ascent — or Ladder of Paradise (Κλίμαξ; Scala or Climax Paradisi ) is an important work for monasticism in Eastern Christianity, composed by John Climacus in ca. AD 600, at the request of John, Abbot of Raithu, a monastery situated on the shores of the… …
124The Tragedy of Chabot, Admiral of France — is an early seventeenth century play, generally judged to be a work of George Chapman, later revised by James Shirley. The play is the last in Chapman s series of plays on contemporary French politics and history, which started with Bussy D… …
125Tremayne Rodd, 3rd Baron Rennell — John Adrian Tremayne Rodd, 3rd Baron Rennell (28 June 1935 9 December 2006) was a Scottish rugby union player. He succeeded his uncle as 3rd Baron Rennell in 1978, and sat on the Conservative Party benches in the House of Lords. John Adrian… …
126Josep Romaguera — (1642 1723) is the author of the only emblem book ever published in the Catalan language, the Atheneo de Grandesa. His work consists of prose, poetry and sermons. His writing is typical of Baroque style. Romaguera was born in Barcelona during the …
127The New Pantagruel — (also known as tNP or TNP ) was an ecumenical Christian electronic journal published from 2004 2006 and patterned after hard nosed little magazines like The Partisan Review with a satirical element reminiscent of The Wittenburg Door , Ship of… …
128Austin Hall (Harvard University) — Infobox nrhp | name =Austin Hall nrhp type = caption = Austin Hall location= Cambridge, Massachusetts lat degrees = 42 lat minutes = 22 lat seconds = 36.58 lat direction = N long degrees = 71 long minutes = 7 long seconds = 9.72 long direction =… …
