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Videos
“Come sit down every mother's child, and rehearse your parts…”
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
“O Helen, goddess, nymph, perfect, divine!”
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
“If we shadows have offended, / Think but this, and all is mended…”
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Learn about the use of innuendo and double entendre in British comedy.
Video: © Open University (A Britannica Publishing Partner)
A 1962 episode of The Dick Van Dyke Show.
Video: Public Domain video
Images
Poster for the Federal Theatre Project presentation of The Path of Flowers,...
Work Projects Administration Poster Collection/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (Digital file no. cph 3f05338)
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