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Satirists on the Shakespearean stage

By tracing the origins of satire in Latin and Greek models through to later dramatic forms, Hannah Lavery shows how we can gain a deeper insight into the purpose and effect of certain satiric figures as they appeared on the Elizabethan stage

Cherry Morris as Queen Margaret in Richard III
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Hamlet: AQA (A) and (B) Language and literature; OCR; WJEC

Measure for Measure: WJEC

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