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"Wherein True Bliss is Buried": A Tragi-Comedy for the Prince of Poland, Brussels 1624
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"Wherein True Bliss is Buried": A Tragi-Comedy for the Prince of Poland, Brussels 1624

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Goran Proot

In the fall of 1960 an auction catalog was delivered to the Acquisitions Department of the Folger Shakespeare Library in which the following small typewritten notice was enclosed: The typewritten note from Sotheby’s The auction catalog was from Sotheby’s and…

Mors comoedia. A comedy a hundred years old brought to life again in 1726
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Mors comoedia. A comedy a hundred years old brought to life again in 1726

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Goran Proot

Sheer chance is an important factor in research. Some sixteen years ago I was surveying a sammelband held at Antwerp University Library that contained 257 programs documenting theater performances in Jesuit schools in Flanders. For the results of this research,…