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Act 3 — The King Amuses Himself[L]

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GOETHE Goetz von Berlichingen[A]

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Iphigenia in Tauris[B]

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GOGOL[C]The Inspector-General

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OLIVER GOLDSMITH[D]She Stoops to Conquer

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HEINRICH HEINE[E]Atta Troll A Summer Night's Dream HOMER[F]The Iliad The Odyssey[G]HORACE[H]Poems VICTOR HUGO[I]Hernani

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Marion de Lorme[J]

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The Legend of the Ages[M]HENRIK IBSEN[N]The Master Builder

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The Pillars of Society[O]

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BEN JONSON[P]Every Man in His Humour

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JUVENAL[Q]Satires FRIEDRICH KLOPSTOCK[R]The Messiah GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM LESSING[S]Nathan the Wise

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HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW[T]Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie The Song of Hiawatha[U]LUCRETIUS[V]On the Nature of Things Ossian[W]CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE[X]The Tragical History of Dr. Faustus

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MARTIAL[Y]Epigrams, Epitaphs and Poems PHILIP MASSINGER[Z]A New Way to Pay Old Debts

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JOHN MILTON[AA]Paradise Lost Paradise Regained[AB]Samson Agonistes[AC]MOLIÈRE[AD]The Doctor in Spite of Himself

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The King Amuses Himself[L]

Persons in the Drama

François I., King of France

Triboulet, his jester

Blanche, Triboulet's daughter

Saltabadil, an assassin

Maguelonne, his sister

Dame Berarde

A woman; a man; a crowd of people

Notes in this chapter

Note 1 · Victor Hugo was a man with a remarkable aptitude for divining the real course of popular feeling and giving violent expression to it. It was

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