David and Bethsabe
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David and Bethsabe
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The Love of King David and Fair Bethsabe is a play by George Peele, based on the biblical story of David, Bathsheba, and Absalom in 2 Samuel. Probably written in the early 1590s, it was entered into the Stationers' Register on 14 May 1594 and published in 1599, after Peele's death, by the printer Adam Islip. The 1599 quarto is problematic in many respects: inconsistencies and internal contradictions, as well as one obviously misplaced fragment of a scene, have led some scholars to conclude that
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Play by George Peele
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_and_Bethsabe
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2024-04-24T02:13:11Z
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