The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 9Harper, 1907 |
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... English drama first enters into some sort of ascertained connexion with it or with its ordinary vehicle , the English stage . For , whether or not he had a hand in " Titus Andronicus " —a question which the present is not the occasion ...
... English drama first enters into some sort of ascertained connexion with it or with its ordinary vehicle , the English stage . For , whether or not he had a hand in " Titus Andronicus " —a question which the present is not the occasion ...
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... English drama . For our national historical drama , ás its conception unfolded itself in Shakespeare , corresponds in its historical continuity to that of our national life at large , which may safely be described as the feature more ...
... English drama . For our national historical drama , ás its conception unfolded itself in Shakespeare , corresponds in its historical continuity to that of our national life at large , which may safely be described as the feature more ...
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... English stage by no means always grow more certain as they proceed ; and it is not quite clear ( and was in fact a subject of dispute on the occasion of the performance of the " First Part of Henry VI " by Mr. Osmond Tearle and his ...
... English stage by no means always grow more certain as they proceed ; and it is not quite clear ( and was in fact a subject of dispute on the occasion of the performance of the " First Part of Henry VI " by Mr. Osmond Tearle and his ...
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... English stage since the closing of the theatres in 1642. The Ger- man production at Weimar in 1864 comprised two plays , Part I and Part II , according to the revision ( or version ) of F. Dingelstedt . Part II was produced by Messrs ...
... English stage since the closing of the theatres in 1642. The Ger- man production at Weimar in 1864 comprised two plays , Part I and Part II , according to the revision ( or version ) of F. Dingelstedt . Part II was produced by Messrs ...
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... English historical plays — and , consequently , upon the formation of a stereotyped popular conception of a whole period of our national history — can hardly be overrated.1 Whether for the main course of the story as exhib- ited in the ...
... English historical plays — and , consequently , upon the formation of a stereotyped popular conception of a whole period of our national history — can hardly be overrated.1 Whether for the main course of the story as exhib- ited in the ...
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Page 105 - Be brave then ; for your captain is brave, and vows reformation. There shall be, in England, seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny : the threehooped pot shall have ten hoops ; and I will make it felony to drink small beer: all the realm shall be in common, and in Cheapside shall my palfrey go to grass.
Page 105 - CADE. I thank you, good people— there shall be no money; all shall eat and drink on my score, and I will apparel them all in one livery, that they may agree like brothers and worship me their lord.
Page 18 - Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till by broad spreading it disperse to nought.
Page 3 - HUNG be the heavens with black , yield day to night! Comets, importing change of times and states, Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky ; And with them scourge the bad revolting stars, That have consented unto Henry's death ! Henry the fifth, too famous to live long ! England ne'er lost a king of so much worth.
Page xvi - ... supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you; and being an absolute Johannes factotum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Page 45 - Let him that is a true-born gentleman And stands upon the honour of his birth, If he suppose that I have pleaded truth, From off this brier pluck a white rose with me. 30 Som. Let him that is no coward nor no flatterer, But dare maintain the party of the truth, Pluck a red rose from off this thorn with me.