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Page viii
... earliest forms had distinct titles , and we Henry VI . until they reached the final stage record of the acting of those earlier forms . Shakespeare himself laid claim , apparently three parts ; in the epilogue to King Henry V. author ...
... earliest forms had distinct titles , and we Henry VI . until they reached the final stage record of the acting of those earlier forms . Shakespeare himself laid claim , apparently three parts ; in the epilogue to King Henry V. author ...
Page ix
... earliest reference to Shakespeare in Ingleby's Centurie of Prayse . In view of the extreme interest of this quotation it may be excusable to enforce the sense of " heroically sound " from Spenser himself : - Yet gold al is not that doth ...
... earliest reference to Shakespeare in Ingleby's Centurie of Prayse . In view of the extreme interest of this quotation it may be excusable to enforce the sense of " heroically sound " from Spenser himself : - Yet gold al is not that doth ...
Page xi
... earliest work with a date of about 1589-90 . There is thus a certain space of time in hand for the develop- ment of power and experience before the production of Parts II . and III . ( 1591-2 ) which are both , especially the last ...
... earliest work with a date of about 1589-90 . There is thus a certain space of time in hand for the develop- ment of power and experience before the production of Parts II . and III . ( 1591-2 ) which are both , especially the last ...
Page xiii
... earliest of the historical plays derived from the chroniclers , Edward the First , wherein however he departs widely from history . To Peele may be credited also a foretaste of a more agree- able and good - natured kind of humour than ...
... earliest of the historical plays derived from the chroniclers , Edward the First , wherein however he departs widely from history . To Peele may be credited also a foretaste of a more agree- able and good - natured kind of humour than ...
Page xv
... iii . and end of 11. iii . The classical references may be his . But see under Marlowe . The metre and verse is nearer Marlowe than Shakespeare's earliest stage . b 189 .2 xvi THE FIRST PART Àñò ï . II KING HENRY THE SIXTH XV.
... iii . and end of 11. iii . The classical references may be his . But see under Marlowe . The metre and verse is nearer Marlowe than Shakespeare's earliest stage . b 189 .2 xvi THE FIRST PART Àñò ï . II KING HENRY THE SIXTH XV.
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Page 63 - 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 xxiii - 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 2 - 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 22 - Glory is like a circle in the water, Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to nought.