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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, etc. by Oscar Wilde: precursor of that AUFKLARUNG or Illumination of the eighteenth
century, that splendid movement which, though begun by Lessing and
Herder, and brought to its full and perfect issue by Goethe, was in
no small part helped on by another actor - Friedrich Schroeder -
who awoke the popular consciousness, and by means of the feigned
passions and mimetic methods of the stage showed the intimate, the
vital, connection between life and literature. If this was so -
and there was certainly no evidence against it - it was not
improbable that Willie Hughes was one of those English comedians
(MIMAE QUIDAM EX BRITANNIA, as the old chronicle calls them), who
were slain at Nuremberg in a sudden uprising of the people, and
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