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Robertson Davies (Critical Survey of Long Fiction)

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Dramatist, journalist, and essayist, Robertson Davies wrote plays such as Fortune, My Foe (1948), A Jig for the Gypsy (1954), Hunting Stuart (1955), and dramatizations of some of his novels; histories (notably Shakespeare’s Boy Actors, 1939); numerous newspaper commentaries and columns (often for the Peterborough Examiner and the Toronto Star); and essays of all kinds, including many for volume 6 (covering the years 1750-1880) of The Revels History of Drama in English. Other occasional writings are...

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