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A Lamentable Tragedy Mixed Full of Pleasant Mirth, Containing the Life of Cambises, King of Persia

A Lamentable Tragedy Mixed Full of Pleasant Mirth, Containing the Life of Cambises, King of Persia Inferred

Thomas Preston

InferredFuller’s words — “Not at all, but — Tamerlane and the like — Bombastes Furioso, and King Cambyses vein to the " storekeepers" and labourers of republican America.” — point to A Lamentable Tragedy Mixed Full of Pleasant Mirth, Containing the Life of Cambises, King of Persia, but she does not give the work’s full title or author here; the identification of the specific work is the editor’s.

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“Not at all, but — Tamerlane and the like — Bombastes Furioso, and King Cambyses vein to the " storekeepers" and labourers of republican America.”

Fuller, Margaret. Art, Literature, and the Drama. Edited by Arthur B. Fuller. New York: The Tribune Association, 1869. · p116

Inferred Fuller’s words — “Not at all, but — Tamerlane and the like — Bombastes Furioso, and King Cambyses vein to the " storekeepers" and labourers of republican America.” — point to A Lamentable Tragedy Mixed Full of Pleasant Mirth, Containing the Life of Cambises, King of Persia, but she does not give the work’s full title or author here; the identification of the specific work is the editor’s.