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Shakespeare and Marlowe--"Is this the face.."

"Was this face the face that every day under his household roof did keep ten thousand men?" --Richard II, Act IV,Scene I,
Line 280. Does this line have a common basis with Christopher Marlowe's Doctor Faustus? ("Is this the face that launched a thousand ships...")

Posted by LTurchin on March 29, 1997 at 16:51:00

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