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Page v
... remark remains no less true and forcible at the present day in its applicability to The Errors as to the other plays for which the Folio is our earliest and only authority . The immense importance of a correct text of Shakespeare is the ...
... remark remains no less true and forcible at the present day in its applicability to The Errors as to the other plays for which the Folio is our earliest and only authority . The immense importance of a correct text of Shakespeare is the ...
Page vii
... has heedlessly rushed in where lawyers fear to tread . But per- haps his remarks were intended primarily for transatlantic consumption only . August , 1907 . · PREFATORY NOTE INTRODUCTION CONTENTS PAGE V xi THE COMEDY PREFATORY NOTE vii.
... has heedlessly rushed in where lawyers fear to tread . But per- haps his remarks were intended primarily for transatlantic consumption only . August , 1907 . · PREFATORY NOTE INTRODUCTION CONTENTS PAGE V xi THE COMEDY PREFATORY NOTE vii.
Page xvi
... remarks Elton in his William Shake- speare , his Family and Friends , 1904 , p . 198. But while put on as a makeshift , it was also obviously essential that the makeshift should be suitable to the occasion and to the audience . No piece ...
... remarks Elton in his William Shake- speare , his Family and Friends , 1904 , p . 198. But while put on as a makeshift , it was also obviously essential that the makeshift should be suitable to the occasion and to the audience . No piece ...
Page xix
... remarks : " There was clearly a time in Shakespeare's poetical life when he delighted in this species of versification ; and in many of the instances in which he has employed it in the dramas we have mentioned [ Love's Labour's Lost ...
... remarks : " There was clearly a time in Shakespeare's poetical life when he delighted in this species of versification ; and in many of the instances in which he has employed it in the dramas we have mentioned [ Love's Labour's Lost ...
Page xxiii
... remarks , “ it is ex- tremely probable that he was furnished with the fable of the present Comedy , " as well as the designation of “ Surreptus or " Sereptus " appended to the name of Ant . E. in the Folio , and which is more fully ...
... remarks , “ it is ex- tremely probable that he was furnished with the fable of the present Comedy , " as well as the designation of “ Surreptus or " Sereptus " appended to the name of Ant . E. in the Folio , and which is more fully ...
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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.