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...that is used with telling effect in the middle-class background of Cardenio und Celinde. The theme of illusion and reality is a fundamental one in his three comedies, the best of which are Die geliebte Dornrose (1660; The Beloved Hedgerose) and Herr Peter Squentz (1663).
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