Word: mucedorus
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...whom we read now with a bored condescension, were once the laureates of a period or a nation, whose fame was certain. Nearly every poet we admire today had rivals who overpeered him in his own lifetime. Today even their names are forgotten. Who was the author of "Mucedorus"? In Elizabeth's reign that invertebrate play was the delight of the groundlings who clamored also for "Faustus" and the tragedy of Lear; it could not be staged too often. "Mucedorus" was reprinted twenty times, and was even attributed, by some master of irony, some unhonored Voltaire, (also, alas! unknown...
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