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Dramatic Revisions of Myths, Fairy Tales and Legends: Essays on Recent Plays.
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of the American northeast. While at Yale, Gurney also wrote
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MIT School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences faculty
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1789:"A. R. Gurney Jr. Biography"
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