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Old picture books; with other essays on bookish subjects (1902)

Pollard, Alfred W. (Alfred William), 1859-1944, Pollard, Alice · London : Methuen and co. · leaf 204

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MOLL CUT-PURSE probably made in order to persuade the spectators thatthis masquerading was only an isolated freak. No less interesting than this, and artistically the bestpicture we have to show, is the title-cut of Greenes Tu WOODCUTS IN ENGLISH PLAYS 191 Quoque or the Cittie Gallant, as it hath… … GREENES TU QUOQUE Jo. Cooke, Gent. (Printed at London for John Trundle.1614.) Originally known as The Cittie Gallant, thisplay was renamed after Thomas Green, the actor who so 192 OLD PICTURE BOOKS successfully personated Bubble, to whom the TuOuoque quip is assigned. Bubble is the type of the…

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