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Page xxxii
... Plautus , now not please ; But antiquated and deserted lie As they were not of Nature's family . Yet must I not give Nature all : thy Art , My gentle Shakespeare , must enjoy a part . For though the Poet's matter Nature be , His Art ...
... Plautus , now not please ; But antiquated and deserted lie As they were not of Nature's family . Yet must I not give Nature all : thy Art , My gentle Shakespeare , must enjoy a part . For though the Poet's matter Nature be , His Art ...
Page xlv
... Plautus , of which it is a studied paraphrase or recast . No English translation of Plautus had been published when Shake- speare's play was composed , and commentators have shown great ingenuity in trying to prove that the poet must ...
... Plautus , of which it is a studied paraphrase or recast . No English translation of Plautus had been published when Shake- speare's play was composed , and commentators have shown great ingenuity in trying to prove that the poet must ...
Page xlvi
... Plautus which could not fail to be attractive to the youthful Shake- speare , who would instinctively recognise in that joyous buccaneer of the Latin stage qualities closely akin to cer- tain of his own . The sort of boisterous animal ...
... Plautus which could not fail to be attractive to the youthful Shake- speare , who would instinctively recognise in that joyous buccaneer of the Latin stage qualities closely akin to cer- tain of his own . The sort of boisterous animal ...
Page xlvii
... Plautus . It is one of the most innocently diverting and most successfully farcical of all the germ - plots invented or adapted by Plautus ; and we may see that Shakespeare 66 who knew other plays by the same dramatist , since there are ...
... Plautus . It is one of the most innocently diverting and most successfully farcical of all the germ - plots invented or adapted by Plautus ; and we may see that Shakespeare 66 who knew other plays by the same dramatist , since there are ...
Page xlviii
... Plautus . Egeon , whose name in the Latin play is Moschus , had died of grief long before the " Menæchmi " begins , and it is the grandfather who survives and who is the prime mover of the search ; he remains , however , in Syracuse ...
... Plautus . Egeon , whose name in the Latin play is Moschus , had died of grief long before the " Menæchmi " begins , and it is the grandfather who survives and who is the prime mover of the search ; he remains , however , in Syracuse ...
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Abbess Adriana ÆGE Ægeon ANTIPHOLUS of Ephesus ANTIPHOLUS of Syracuse bear chain Comedy of Errors dine dinner dost thou doth dramatic dramatist Dromio DROMIO of Syracuse DUKE Eglamour Enter ANTIPHOLUS Enter PROTEUS Epidamnum Exeunt Exit eyes fair false father fault Folio gentle Gentlemen of Verona give gone grace hair hath hear hence Henry Condell HOST husband JOHN HEMINGE John Lowin Julia lady ladyship LAUNCE letter live look lord Love's Love's Labour's Lost Lucetta Luciana Madam Silvia Marry Menæchmi Milan mistress never Plautus play poet pray quibble quoth reading SCENE servant Shake Shakespeare Sir Proteus Sir Thurio Sir Valentine sister speak speare's SPEED sweet tell thee thou art thou hast thy master thyself unto Venus and Adonis villain wife WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Winter's Tale word writ youth