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William Shakespeare William James Craig, Robert Hope Case. Princeton University Library 32101 066124163 3925 1899 2.4 Princeton University Library Library of English Poetry. Front Cover.
William Shakespeare William James Craig, Robert Hope Case. Princeton University Library 32101 066124163 3925 1899 2.4 Princeton University Library Library of English Poetry. Front Cover.
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William Shakespeare William James Craig, Robert Hope Case. 3925 1899 2.4 Princeton University Library Library of English Poetry Dei Sub Numine Viget Founded and maintained by the Class of 1875 4 。 GENERAL EDITOR : W. J. CRAIG THE COMEDY ...
William Shakespeare William James Craig, Robert Hope Case. 3925 1899 2.4 Princeton University Library Library of English Poetry Dei Sub Numine Viget Founded and maintained by the Class of 1875 4 。 GENERAL EDITOR : W. J. CRAIG THE COMEDY ...
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... English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage ; for comedy , witness his Getleme of Verona , his Errors , his Love Labors Lost , his Love Labours Wonne , his Midsummers Night Dream , and his Merchant of Venice ; for tragedy ...
... English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage ; for comedy , witness his Getleme of Verona , his Errors , his Love Labors Lost , his Love Labours Wonne , his Midsummers Night Dream , and his Merchant of Venice ; for tragedy ...
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... English Poesie ( ante 1589 ) , " Such maner of Poesie is called in our vulgar ryme dogrell " ( Arber , p . 89 ) . The verse is a survival of the metres of the old moralities and it is used in other old plays by Shake- speare's immediate ...
... English Poesie ( ante 1589 ) , " Such maner of Poesie is called in our vulgar ryme dogrell " ( Arber , p . 89 ) . The verse is a survival of the metres of the old moralities and it is used in other old plays by Shake- speare's immediate ...
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... English available for all the purposes of his Errors is evident enough . A play now lost called " The Historie of Error " was " shown at Hampton Court on New Yere's daie at night 1576 , 77 , enacted by the children of Powles " ( i.e. ...
... English available for all the purposes of his Errors is evident enough . A play now lost called " The Historie of Error " was " shown at Hampton Court on New Yere's daie at night 1576 , 77 , enacted by the children of Powles " ( i.e. ...
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Antipholus of Ephesus Antipholus of Syracuse brother Capell conj chain cloake Collier comedies Compare line Craig didst dine dinner door doth DROMIO of Ephesus Dromio of Syracuse Duke Dyce Editor Enter ANTIPHOLUS Epidamnum Erot Erotium Errors Exeunt Exit fairy fetch Folio fool Gentlemen of Verona gold hair Hanmer hast hath Henry Henry IV Henry VI husband Keightley Love's Labour's Lost Luciana Malone master meaning Menaecmi Menechmus Merchant of Venice Merry Wives Mess Messenio Midsummer-Night's Dream mistress never Othello passage Peniculus Plautus play Pope pray quibble reading refers Richard III Romeo and Juliet rope's end Rowe says SCENE sense Shakespeare ship speak stale Steevens quotes Syracusian tell thee Theobald thou art Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Twelfth Night villain Walker conj wife Wives of Windsor word
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Page xiv - As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latines, so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage...
Page 93 - He understood the speech of birds As well as they themselves do words ; Could tell what subtlest parrots mean, That speak and think contrary clean ; What member 'tis of whom they talk When they cry ' Rope,' and
Page xiii - The author is at home in his subject, and presents his views in an almost singularly clear and satisfactory manner. . . . The volume is a valuable contribution to one of the most difficult, and at the same time one of the most important subjects of investigation at the present day.
Page xxxii - THE myriad-minded man, our, and all men's, Shakspeare, has in this piece presented us with a legitimate farce in exactest consonance with the philosophical principles and character of farce, as distinguished from comedy and from entertainments.
Page 86 - I loved her most, and thought to set my rest On her kind nursery.