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raptus

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Lesser argues that Bonian and Walley's preliminaries read the play as a kind of city comedy in order to assimilate it to the repertoire they were building--works of "wit and classicism" like Jonson's Masque of Queenes, Chapman's Euthymiae Raptus, Fletcher's The Faithfull Shepheardesse--when the classicism of this particular play would not seem to need much massaging.
Last night, a certain raptus was effected, despite the fear.
lt;L pretiare >price rapt keenly carried away by <L raptus absorbed in carried off >rape, rapture [2 is a recent contraction of wrapped, only in Mq root Unearth.
 
 
 
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