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Puritan, The, or The Puritan Widow
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Copyright information© A Dictionary of Shakespeare 1998, originally published by Oxford University Press 1998. (Hide copyright information)
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Puritan, The, or The Puritan Widow
An anonymous play of about 1606, attributed in the eighteenth century to Shakespeare, but now thought to be by Thomas
Middleton
. It includes a ...
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