... [i.e. crowded] (Poems, sig. *4r). After the Restoration, Samuel Pepys saw the play acted five times between 1660, when the theatres re-opened, and 1668, the first time admittedly disappointed with the performance, his "expectation being too great" (Pepys, 1, 325). Today the play still produces great expectations of ... The play sets before us an intricately woven tapestry of high and low characters, of public and private motives, of politics and festivity, of poetry and prose, of history and comedy, of fact and fiction, allowing us to see and hear not only the Variegated play world but ...

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