• The Law Against Lovers was a dramatic adaptation of Shakespeare, arranged by Sir William Davenant and staged by the Duke's Company in 1662. It was the...
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    Much Ado About Nothing (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the New International Encyclopedia)
    staged The Law Against Lovers (1662), which inserted Beatrice and Benedick into an adaptation of Measure for Measure. Another adaptation, The Universal...
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    from Much Ado About Nothing into his adaptation, called The Law Against Lovers. Samuel Pepys saw the hybrid play on 18 February 1662; he describes it in his...
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  • 1662 in literature (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    about the literary events and publications of 1662. February 15 – The first performance of Sir William Davenant's The Law Against Loversthe first Restoration...
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  • Only Lovers Left Alive is a 2013 gothic fantasy comedy-drama film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch, starring Tilda Swinton, Tom Hiddleston, Mia Wasikowska...
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  • 1699 in literature (category Years of the 17th century in literature)
    The Constant Couple Charles Gildon – Measure for Measure, or Beauty the Best Advocate (a re-adaptation of Davenant's 1662 adaptation The Law Against Lovers)...
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  • 1673 in literature (category Years of the 17th century in literature)
    Plymouth, The Law Against Lovers, The Fair Favourite, and The Siege published posthumously John Dryden Amboyna, or the Cruelties of the Dutch to the English...
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    William Davenant (category People convicted of treason against England)
    Rutland House, a "disputation" (performed 23 May 1656; printed 1657) The Law Against Lovers (performed 10 February 1662, printed 1673), a version of Measure...
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    "Lear for the Age of Ronald Reagan." Perhaps a more typical example of the purpose of Restoration revisions is Davenant's The Law Against Lovers, a 1662...
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  • Moon Lovers: Scarlet Heart Ryeo (Korean: 달의 연인 – 보보경심 려; Hanja: 달의 戀人 – 步步驚心 麗; RR: Darui Yeonin – Bobogyeongsim Ryeo; MR: Tarŭi Yŏnin – Popokyŏngsim Ryŏ)...
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