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malcontent

[mal-kuhn-tent] / ˌmæl kənˈtɛnt /


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Malcontent is good for business as long as you're the one who benefits from it.

From Salon • Jul. 18, 2024

The new Malcontent production will be open to girls as well as boys.

From BBC • Jun. 18, 2013

Dromgoole described The Malcontent, John Marston's satire, written around 1603, as "a dizzyingly funny, rude and wild play".

From BBC • Jun. 18, 2013

When The Malcontent was first staged in the Blackfriars playhouse at the turn of the seventeenth century, the cast was made up of a troupe of boy players.

From BBC • Jun. 18, 2013

One of the actors excuses their doing so by saying that, as they themselves have been similarly robbed, they have a clear right to Malevole, the chief character in The Malcontent.

From Shakspere and Montaigne by Feis, Jacob




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