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Page ix
... seem intended to refer to the three parts , and to their popularity on the stage . But some critics see nothing here beyond a reference to this popularity . That Shakespeare was at this date ( 1590-1591 ) known as a historical or ...
... seem intended to refer to the three parts , and to their popularity on the stage . But some critics see nothing here beyond a reference to this popularity . That Shakespeare was at this date ( 1590-1591 ) known as a historical or ...
Page xii
... seems to have had less admiration for the greatest of all poets since the days of Chaucer . Perhaps " Palin worthie of great praise " who envied Spenser's “ rustick quill " ( Colin Clout's Come Home Again , 392 ) was Greene . Even where ...
... seems to have had less admiration for the greatest of all poets since the days of Chaucer . Perhaps " Palin worthie of great praise " who envied Spenser's “ rustick quill " ( Colin Clout's Come Home Again , 392 ) was Greene . Even where ...
Page xiv
... seems to accept a date of 1590 ( from Collins ) for Peele's Old Wives ' Tale , and he deems it certain that it followed Orlando because there are two passages in common and because the character Sacrapant is in both , which Greene took ...
... seems to accept a date of 1590 ( from Collins ) for Peele's Old Wives ' Tale , and he deems it certain that it followed Orlando because there are two passages in common and because the character Sacrapant is in both , which Greene took ...
Page xv
... seems again to have assisted . Scene v . with its assemblage of natural history metaphors is most near Greene . I. vi . 22. Rhodope's or Memphis ' . " They which came to Memphis thought they had seene nothing unlesse they had viewed the ...
... seems again to have assisted . Scene v . with its assemblage of natural history metaphors is most near Greene . I. vi . 22. Rhodope's or Memphis ' . " They which came to Memphis thought they had seene nothing unlesse they had viewed the ...
Page xviii
... seem mongrel . " The proudest of you all " ( v . vii . 88 ) is a favourite with Greene , and would have seemed strong ... seems almost to disappear from this onwards . Note here also how few Spenserian parallels occur ; Act v . shows ...
... seem mongrel . " The proudest of you all " ( v . vii . 88 ) is a favourite with Greene , and would have seemed strong ... seems almost to disappear from this onwards . Note here also how few Spenserian parallels occur ; Act v . shows ...
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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.