Vulgar words in The Facts About Shakespeare (Page 1)
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The witty page supersedes the rude buffoon of earlier plays, and everything is graceful and ingenious, slight in serious interest, but relieved by movement and song.
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Dekker's fine drama of middle class life, _The Honest Whore_ (1604), and Heywood's masterpiece, _A Woman Killed with Kindness_ (1603), a play suggesting both the sentimental comedy of the eighteenth century and the problem play of to-day, also belong to this very remarkable era of domestic themes and serious realism.
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A host of minor writers, as Brome, D'Avenant, Suckling, Cartwright, offer little that is new; but no survey of the drama, however brief, can neglect to mention the skilful exposition, admirable psychology, and sound structural principles that characterized the best of Massinger's many plays, the unique and amazing dramatic genius shown in Ford's masterpieces, _The Broken Heart_ and _'Tis Pity She's a Whore_, and the ingenuity in plot, adroitness in characterization, and genuine poetic gifts of Shirley.
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These are, as some infamous Baud, or Whore, Should praise a Matron.
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Bastard of Orleans.
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John I. i. Faulconbridge, Philip the Bastard.
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I. i. Orleans, bastard of.
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_Honest Whore_, 105.
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_'Tis Pity She's a Whore_, 112.