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Page v
... hold his peace . He has no justification for adding yet another " edition " to the never- ending stream . The public presumably demands its reprints , and it gets its reprints - of a sort — and , knowing no better , ( RECAP ) V 3925 ...
... hold his peace . He has no justification for adding yet another " edition " to the never- ending stream . The public presumably demands its reprints , and it gets its reprints - of a sort — and , knowing no better , ( RECAP ) V 3925 ...
Page xvii
... hold that the play was written and produced shortly after the expedition of Norris and Essex in 1591. With reference to the anterior limit , 1589 , it may be pointed out that Shakespeare's use of the name Menaphon , in v . INTRODUCTION ...
... hold that the play was written and produced shortly after the expedition of Norris and Essex in 1591. With reference to the anterior limit , 1589 , it may be pointed out that Shakespeare's use of the name Menaphon , in v . INTRODUCTION ...
Page xxvi
... hold it verie needful to be drawing home - ward , lest in looking for your brother we quite lose ourselves . Errors , I. ii . 39 : - So I , to find a mother and a brother , In quest of them , unhappy , lose myself . 4. Menaecmi , II . i ...
... hold it verie needful to be drawing home - ward , lest in looking for your brother we quite lose ourselves . Errors , I. ii . 39 : - So I , to find a mother and a brother , In quest of them , unhappy , lose myself . 4. Menaecmi , II . i ...
Page xxxix
... holds the mirror up to contem- porary life in London as Shakespeare knew it . " Beneath the masquerade of foreign names in the comedies lay tacitly the familiar scenes of England and of London , " as Ordish well remarks in the preface ...
... holds the mirror up to contem- porary life in London as Shakespeare knew it . " Beneath the masquerade of foreign names in the comedies lay tacitly the familiar scenes of England and of London , " as Ordish well remarks in the preface ...
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... Hold , take these guilders " ; where the stage - direction following is " gives him money . " II . intestine ] Not quite in the sense of " internal , " as between people of the same state ; as in 1 Henry IV . I. i . 12 : " in the ...
... Hold , take these guilders " ; where the stage - direction following is " gives him money . " II . intestine ] Not quite in the sense of " internal , " as between people of the same state ; as in 1 Henry IV . I. i . 12 : " in the ...
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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.