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Page vii
... play by itself and not as a portion of the trilogy : since Parts II . and III . are founded upon earlier plays whose texts we fortunately possess . But it must be borne in mind that , structurally speaking , no such separation is ...
... play by itself and not as a portion of the trilogy : since Parts II . and III . are founded upon earlier plays whose texts we fortunately possess . But it must be borne in mind that , structurally speaking , no such separation is ...
Page viii
... play in question in any shape , a natural assumption . But the mean- ing may also be taken that it is an old play so much altered as to rest on a new base of popularity . This latter view re- quires further proof , the former being the ...
... play in question in any shape , a natural assumption . But the mean- ing may also be taken that it is an old play so much altered as to rest on a new base of popularity . This latter view re- quires further proof , the former being the ...
Page x
... play itself , with the foregoing evidence that it is in some degree or other Shakespeare's . All critics , all readers , will probably agree or have agreed that it is one of the least poetical and also one of the dullest of all the plays ...
... play itself , with the foregoing evidence that it is in some degree or other Shakespeare's . All critics , all readers , will probably agree or have agreed that it is one of the least poetical and also one of the dullest of all the plays ...
Page xi
... play Titus Andronicus , which is regarded , or was regarded , as Shakespeare's first play and the only one preceding that under notice . Titus bears ample evidence , however , of authorship other than Shake- speare's , and is now given ...
... play Titus Andronicus , which is regarded , or was regarded , as Shakespeare's first play and the only one preceding that under notice . Titus bears ample evidence , however , of authorship other than Shake- speare's , and is now given ...
Page xii
... play is more easily regarded as due to his influence , often apparent in Shakespeare's early work , or to imitation ... plays of this date has not received sufficient attention . Marlowe and Peele made use of him wholesale , and ...
... play is more easily regarded as due to his influence , often apparent in Shakespeare's early work , or to imitation ... plays of this date has not received sufficient attention . Marlowe and Peele made use of him wholesale , and ...
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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.