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Open your page like this one (See EEBO link for the following - write the language you find convenient for later reference:
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William Painter Clarke. The Palace of Pleasure. London: Henry Denham, 1566. | ||
[short overview] Eine Novellensammlung, p.i Title page/ p.iii-x Dedication to Lord Ambrose, Earl of Warwick/ p.xi-xviii "Recapitulation" (Inhaltsverzeichnis)/ p.19-28 "To the Reader" (Preface)/ Fol. 1-339 (das Buch hat keine Seitenzählung) Novels 1-60.
If you have to recapitulate a play, give a kind of sketch who is related to whom - father, son, wife, loved one - etc. A pedigree is often the convenient sketch. Try to conclude (or begin) with your personal view, so that you can (when using your own excerpts later) see where your views changed. |