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    The Merry Devil of Edmonton is an Elizabethan-era stage play; a comedy about a magician, Peter Fabell, nicknamed the Merry Devil. It was at one point attributed...
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    As You Like It The Comedy of Errors Love's Labour's Lost Measure for Measure** The Merchant of Venice** The Merry Wives of Windsor A Midsummer Night's...
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    Fair Em Mucedorus The Merry Devil of Edmonton Arden of Faversham Edmund Ironside Vortigern and Rowena Ireland Shakespeare forgeries To the Queen A Funeral...
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    The Merry Devil of Edmonton was performed in London about a wizard who lived there. In 1621 the villagers accused an old woman, Elizabeth Sawyer, of witchcraft...
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    tragedy is the designation given to most tragedies written by playwright William Shakespeare. Many of his history plays share the qualifiers of a Shakespearean...
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    Curfew bell (category Society of England)
    lasting tombe of plated brasse. In the play The Merry Devil of Edmonton (published 1608), the curfew was at nine o'clock in the evening: Well, 'tis nine a clocke...
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  • against the company; in 1603, they staged his Sejanus, with dissatisfying results. They also performed The London Prodigal, The Merry Devil of Edmonton, and...
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    Sawyer). The 'witch' of Edmonton. At the beginning of the play, she is merely a poor old decrepit woman, but she makes a deal with a devil to get revenge...
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    Thomas Dekker (writer) (category English people of Dutch descent)
    (1603) (co-written with Henry Chettle and William Haughton) The Merry Devil of Edmonton (1604) The Honest Whore (1604) (co-written with Thomas Middleton) Westward...
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    The Globe Theatre was a theatre in London associated with William Shakespeare. It was built in 1599 at Southwark, close to the south bank of the Thames...
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