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Page ix
... lost France and made his England bleed : Which oft our stage hath shown ; and , for their sake In your fair minds let this acceptance take . These words seem intended to refer to the three parts , and to their popularity on the stage ...
... lost France and made his England bleed : Which oft our stage hath shown ; and , for their sake In your fair minds let this acceptance take . These words seem intended to refer to the three parts , and to their popularity on the stage ...
Page xi
... lost and earlier play ? I incline to the former opinion . I believe that a close examination of the language itself makes that date imperative in so many cases that we are bound to grant it ; and the converse is even more the case ...
... lost and earlier play ? I incline to the former opinion . I believe that a close examination of the language itself makes that date imperative in so many cases that we are bound to grant it ; and the converse is even more the case ...
Page xiii
... lost besides those we have , and no doubt had a share in much anonymous or otherwise attributed work . He was the author of one of the earliest of the historical plays derived from the chroniclers , Edward the First , wherein however he ...
... lost besides those we have , and no doubt had a share in much anonymous or otherwise attributed work . He was the author of one of the earliest of the historical plays derived from the chroniclers , Edward the First , wherein however he ...
Page xiv
... lost Delphrygus , in Greene's Groatsworth , with another reference to the same lost play ( or the King of Fairies ) by Nashe in his Introduction to Menaphon ( 1589 ) , Mr. Greg finds Greene began writing for the stage when this ( or ...
... lost Delphrygus , in Greene's Groatsworth , with another reference to the same lost play ( or the King of Fairies ) by Nashe in his Introduction to Menaphon ( 1589 ) , Mr. Greg finds Greene began writing for the stage when this ( or ...
Page xxv
... Lost , I have shown Puttenham's presence there . There is less here . In I. vi . 24-27 the passage seems to be almost an insertion . The metaphor is boldly seized upon . Puttenham's passage is ( Arber reprint , pp . 31 , 32 ) : “ In ...
... Lost , I have shown Puttenham's presence there . There is less here . In I. vi . 24-27 the passage seems to be almost an insertion . The metaphor is boldly seized upon . Puttenham's passage is ( Arber reprint , pp . 31 , 32 ) : “ In ...
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Page 65 - Will I upon thy party wear this rose : And here I prophesy ; — This brawl to-day Grown to this faction, in the Temple garden, Shall send, between the red rose and the white, A thousand souls to death and deadly night.
Page xxv - Few of the university pen plays well; they smell too much of that writer Ovid and that writer Metamorphosis, and talk too much of Proserpina and Jupiter. Why, here's our fellow Shakespeare puts them all down, aye, and Ben Jonson too.
Page 4 - 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 ! King Henry the Fifth, too famous to live long ! England ne'er lost a king of so much worth.
Page 24 - Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to nought.