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Page xxi
... common . Further evidence of an early date appears in the fre- quent quibbles , the mild play upon words , and other modest quips and quaint conceits ; and in certain passages sugges- tive of like passages in the other early plays ...
... common . Further evidence of an early date appears in the fre- quent quibbles , the mild play upon words , and other modest quips and quaint conceits ; and in certain passages sugges- tive of like passages in the other early plays ...
Page xxiv
... Common Pleas , and the author of Albion's England ( 1586 ) . The Menaecmi was entered on the books of the Stationers ' Company in 1584 ; but , in all probability , according to the usual custom of writers of that age , existed in ...
... Common Pleas , and the author of Albion's England ( 1586 ) . The Menaecmi was entered on the books of the Stationers ' Company in 1584 ; but , in all probability , according to the usual custom of writers of that age , existed in ...
Page xxxvi
... common- sense and worldly prudence than her sister . When Antipholus of Syracuse makes love to her she is prudent enough , before she gives way to any feeling , to " fetch her sister to get her good - will " ( III . ii . 70 ) ; and in ...
... common- sense and worldly prudence than her sister . When Antipholus of Syracuse makes love to her she is prudent enough , before she gives way to any feeling , to " fetch her sister to get her good - will " ( III . ii . 70 ) ; and in ...
Page xliii
... common of my serious hours . 11. ii . 71-75 . There's no time for a man to recover his hair . May he not do it by fine and recovery ? and recover the lost hair of another man . III . i . 12. That you beat me at the mart , I have your ...
... common of my serious hours . 11. ii . 71-75 . There's no time for a man to recover his hair . May he not do it by fine and recovery ? and recover the lost hair of another man . III . i . 12. That you beat me at the mart , I have your ...
Page 12
... common in the Folio corruptions and comes I think nearest both to the sound and to the ductus literarum of the Folio " helpe . " Moreover , it is illustrated and sup- ported by the different words which Shakespeare uses throughout this ...
... common in the Folio corruptions and comes I think nearest both to the sound and to the ductus literarum of the Folio " helpe . " Moreover , it is illustrated and sup- ported by the different words which Shakespeare uses throughout this ...
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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
Popular passages
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.