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- ↑ Hausermann, Christophe (1 April 2013). ""Hys worthy deedes might be eternized in the Bookes of memorie": Syncretic Memory in Richard Johnson's Chivalric Romances and Shakespeare's 2 Henry VI". Actes des congrès de la Société française Shakespeare (30): 73–86. doi: 10.4000/shakespeare.1923 – via journals.openedition.org.
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