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Definition of Playacted
1. playact [v] - See also: playact
Lexicographical Neighbors of Playacted
Literary usage of Playacted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of Queen Anne by Adolphus William Ward (1899)
"Hamlet's statement that the playacted at his request is ' the image of a murder
done in Vienna'—which the First Quarto prints 'Guiana'—suggests that some ..."
2. The Influence of Beaumont and Fletcher on Shakspere by Ashley Horace Thorndike (1901)
"This is the only playacted before 1612, the year of whose production is fixed.
We have now examined the dates of eight plays certainly acted by the end of ..."
3. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1900)
"... by Geoffry de Gorham, a monk of Norman descent, and an abbot of St. Alban's,
is said to have been the first recorded miracle playacted in England. ..."
4. A History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of Queen Anne by Adolphus William Ward (1899)
"Hamlet's statement that the playacted at his request is ' the image of a murder
done in Vienna'—which the First Quarto prints 'Guiana'—suggests that some ..."
5. The Influence of Beaumont and Fletcher on Shakspere by Ashley Horace Thorndike (1901)
"This is the only playacted before 1612, the year of whose production is fixed.
We have now examined the dates of eight plays certainly acted by the end of ..."
6. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1900)
"... by Geoffry de Gorham, a monk of Norman descent, and an abbot of St. Alban's,
is said to have been the first recorded miracle playacted in England. ..."
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