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Fry, Christopher. Time Magazine. 3 Apr. 1950.

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Beckett, Samuel. Proust. Chatto and Windus, 1930.

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Wilder, Thornton. The Skin of Our Teeth. 15 Oct. 1942, Shubert Theatre, New Haven, Connecticut, USA, act 1.

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Wilder, Thornton. "The Skin of Our Teeth." Three Plays: Our Town, The Skin of Our Teeth, and The Matchmaker. Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2020, act 1.

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Shakespeare, William. The Comedy of Errors. 1594, Gray's Inn Hall, London, England, UK, act 2, sc. 2.

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Shakespeare, William. "The Comedy of Errors." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 2.

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Thomson, James. "The City of Dreadful Night." The City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems. London: Reeves and Turner, 1880, st. 14. Originally published in the National Reformer, 1874.

The great design of art is to restore the decays that happened to human nature by the fall, by restoring order.

John Dennis

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Dennis, John. The Grounds of Criticism in Poetry. London: Geo. Strahan and Bernard Lintott, 1704, ch. 2.

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Shaw, George Bernard. "Bernard Shaw's Appreciation of Coburn." Camera Work, edited and published by Alfred Stieglitz, 1906, no. 15, p. 33.

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Addison, Joseph. "Monday, June 23, 1712." The Spectator, 1712, no. 412.

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Addison, Joseph. The Spectator. London, 10 Sept. 1711, no. 166.

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Wasserstein, Wendy. Isn't It Romantic. 1981, Phoenix Theater, New York City, NY, USA, act 1, sc. 6.

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Shakespeare, William. King Lear. King's Men, 26 Dec. 1606, Palace of Whitehall, Westminster, England, UK, act 4, sc. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "The Tragedy of King Lear." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 4, sc. 1.

We keep saying old people are square. Then when they suddenly aren't-we don't like it!

Peter Shaffer

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Shaffer, Peter. Equus. 1973, Royal National Theatre, London, England, UK, act 2, sc. 31.

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Shaffer, Peter. Equus. Scribner, 2005, act 2, sc. 31.

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Shakespeare, William. Henry VI, Part 1. Lord Strange's Men, 1592, Rose Theatre, London, England, UK, act 2, sc. 3.

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Shakespeare, William. "The First Part of Henry the Sixth." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act 2, sc. 3.

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Osborne, John. Look Back in Anger. 1956, Royal Court Theatre, London, England, UK, act 1.

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Osborne, John. Look Back in Anger. Faber & Faber, 2015, act 1.

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Shaw, George Bernard. "The Irrational Knot." Our Corner. 1885-1887, preface. Serial.

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Goldsmith, Oliver. "Letter VII." The Citizen of the World; or, Letters from a Chinese Philosopher. Dublin: George and Alex. Ewing, 1762. Originally published in The Public Ledger, Jan. 1760 - Aug. 1761.

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Congreve, William. The Way of the World. Performed by John Verbruggen and Anne Bracegirdle. Mar. 1700, Lincoln's Inn Fields, London, England, UK, act 2, sc. 1.

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Congreve, William. "The Way of the World." The Way of the World and Other Plays, edited by Eric S. Rump. Penguin Classics, 2006, act 2, sc. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. A Midsummer Night's Dream. The Lord Chamberlain's Men, c. 1599, The Theatre, London, England, UK, act 1, sc. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "A Midsummer Night's Dream." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, act. 1, sc. 1.

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Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. London: Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623, act 5, sc. 1

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Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet." The Norton Shakespeare, edited by Stephen Greenblatt, et al., 3rd ed., W. W. Norton & Company, 2015, 2015, act 5, sc. 1.

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Sophocles. Αἴας [Ajax]. c. 441 BCE, Athens, Greece.

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Sophocles. "Ajax." Electra and Other Plays, translated by David Raeburn. Penguin Classics, 2008.