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Bibliographic information
| Title | A View of the English Stage: Or, A Series of Dramatic Criticisms Bohn's standard library Half-title: Bohns̕ standard library Hazlitt's works |
| Author | William Hazlitt |
| Editor | W. Spencer Jackson |
| Publisher | G. Bell & sons, 1906 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 13 Oct 2007 |
| Length | 358 pages |
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