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    Francis Kirkman (1632 – c. 1680) appears in many roles in the English literary world of the second half of the seventeenth century, as a publisher, bookseller...
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    material for drolls was generally chosen for physical humor or for wit. Francis Kirkman's The Wits, or Sport Upon Sport, 1662, is a collection of twenty-seven...
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  • Kirkman, American Heavyweight boxer Christina Kirkman, American actress, comedian, and rapper Ellen Kirkman, American mathematician Francis Kirkman,...
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  • Publishing Company, Inc. p. 398. ISBN 978-0-304-36636-1. Richard Head, Francis Kirkman, The English Rogue: Described in the Life of Meriton Latroon and Other...
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    and the canting section was extracted as The Beggars Commonwealth by Francis Kirkman as one of the drolls he published for performance at markets, fairs...
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    by Henry Marsh sold out within the year. Marsh died that very year, Francis Kirkman the business partner, to whom Marsh had been indebted, secured the...
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  • Davenant The Wits, a 17th-century collection of comic sketches by Francis Kirkman the title school of WITS Academy, a 2015 teen sitcom on Nickelodeon...
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    thought it to be. She may have been influenced by another writer named Francis Kirkman who also lacked knowledge of Greek or Latin, who said "you shall not...
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    Tourneur by Edward Archer in 1656; the attribution was seconded by Francis Kirkman in lists of 1661 and 1671. Tourneur was accepted as the author despite...
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  • quartos were anonymous; Heywood was first connected with the plays by Francis Kirkman in his 1661 play list. The central character in the play is Jane Shore...
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