• The Devil Is an Ass is a Jacobean comedy by Ben Jonson, first performed in 1616, first published in 1631, and based on the events of the famous Leicester...
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    Christopher Ryan (category The Flying Pickets members)
    Christina Series 01 - The Worlds of Doctor Who - Special Releases - Big Finish". Retrieved 26 January 2021. "David Suchet - The Devil is an Ass (1976-77)". Retrieved...
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    Ben Jonson (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    1631) The Devil is an Ass, comedy (performed 1616; printed 1631) The Staple of News, comedy (completed by Feb. 1626; printed 1631) The New Inn, or The Light...
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    John Nettles (category Officers of the Order of the British Empire)
    appearing in The Winter's Tale, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Julius Caesar, Richard III and The Devil Is an Ass. In 1992 he appeared in an episode of Boon...
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  • with the cases had their reputations seriously damaged, and the story was transformed into a satirical comedy making fun of them in The Devil Is an Ass by...
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    Jonson is unclear. The three plays are: Bartholomew Fair The Devil Is an Ass The Staple of News Allot died in 1635; in the 1637–39 period, the rights...
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    Alan Rickman was an English actor of the stage and screen. Rickman gained international acclaim for his role as Hans Gruber in the action film Die Hard...
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  • Robin Nedwell (category Alumni of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama)
    Grumio), Richard III (as King Richard III) and Ben Jonson's comedy The Devil is an Ass. Nedwell had a romance with co-star Diane Keen. In 1982, Nedwell...
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  • Pug (disambiguation) (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
    Hill, Central Park, New York City, US Pug, a main character in the play The Devil Is an Ass by Ben Jonson, first performed in 1616 Pug (fictional character)...
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  • Fitz (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the New International Encyclopedia)
    Ben Jonson's play The Devil Is an Ass includes the eccentric and foolish Norfolk squire named Fabian Fitzdottrell, a name evoking the dotterel, viewed...
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  • Anger Soon Cold is a play written by Henry Chettle, Henry Porter and Ben Jonson. No extant copies of the play are known. The play is mentioned in Philip...
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  • 1616 in literature (category Years of the 17th century in literature)
    Jonson The Golden Age Restored The Devil is an Ass Christmas, His Masque Christopher Marlowe (k. 1593) – Doctor Faustus (third quarto published – the "B text";...
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    Castleton, Derbyshire (category Towns and villages of the Peak District)
    features in the films The Princess Bride (1987) and The Other Boleyn Girl (2008). The town is also featured briefly in the play The Devil is an Ass by Ben...
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  • Before the Devil Knows You're Dead is a 2007 American crime thriller film directed by Sidney Lumet. The film was written by Kelly Masterson, and stars...
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  • Dekker's If This Be Not a Good Play the Devil is in It (1611–12) and Jonson's The Devil is an Ass (1616). The devil Belphagor comes to live on Earth for...
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    indicates, the play was popular with audiences; it is mentioned by Ben Jonson in the Prologue to his play The Devil is an Ass. While Merry Devil was a King's...
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  • Asshole (redirect from Ass-hole)
    uses the term: "All these white folks dressed so fine / Their ass-holes smell just like mine ...". Its earliest known usage in newspaper as an insult...
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  • Robert Johnson (English composer) (category People of the Elizabethan era)
    "Have you seen the bright lily grow?" from Ben Jonson's comedy The Devil is an Ass, 1616. The best-selling recording is that of Sting on the 2006 album Songs...
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  • John Dougall (actor) (category Alumni of the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland)
    Company. Other works has included The Devil is an Ass, The Cherry Orchard, and The Crucible for the RSC, Saint Joan at the Strand Theatre; Shadow of a Gunman...
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    bright lilly growe" (no. 47 from The Devil is an Ass), and "Heare yee ladyes yt" (formerly part of the manuscript as no. 19 from Valentinian). Cutts notes...
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  • signs of influence from Ben Jonson's The Devil Is an Ass in Webster's play, and so have dated it soon after the autumn 1616 premier of Jonson's play;...
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    Matthew Warchus (category Alumni of the University of Bristol)
    (West Yorkshire Playhouse, Donmar Warehouse, Broadway), Henry V, The Devil is an Ass, Hamlet (RSC), Volpone (RNT), Troilus and Cressida (Opera North)...
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  • The Devil Wears Prada is a 2006 American comedy-drama film directed by David Frankel and produced by Wendy Finerman. The screenplay, written by Aline Brosh...
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  • Peter Barnes (playwright) (category Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature)
    Theatre, London, 1970 The Alchemist (adaptation of a play by Ben Jonson), produced at Old Vic Theatre, 1970 The Devil Is an Ass (adaptation of a play...
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  • Malfi c. 1621. Robinson reportedly played the part of Wittipol in Jonson's The Devil is an Ass in 1616. In the printed text of that play (1631), Jonson...
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  • The Staple of News was entered into the Stationers' Register in Feb. 1626, but was not published till five years later. Like The Devil is an Ass, The...
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    50 and Bee 125 Big Roadster V 3.8 City 125 City 150 Dirty Devil 50 Dirty Devil 110 MadAss Prima Prima G3 Roadster 650 Hercules 125 cc Sachs Roadster...
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  • Vergil (Japanese: バージル, Hepburn: Bājiru) is a fictional character and the main antagonist of Devil May Cry, an action-adventure hack and slash video game...
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  • The Sad Shepherd: or, A Tale of Robin Hood is the last, incomplete play by Ben Jonson, written around 1635 and printed posthumously in 1641. Robin Hood...
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  • Devil May Cry 5 is a 2019 action-adventure game developed and published by Capcom. The game is the sixth installment overall and the fifth mainline installment...
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