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... scene in a countrie . O that I might intreate your rare wits to be imployed in more profitable courses : & let those Apes imitate your past excel- lence , and neuer more acquaint them with your admired in- uentions . I know the best ...
... scene in a countrie . O that I might intreate your rare wits to be imployed in more profitable courses : & let those Apes imitate your past excel- lence , and neuer more acquaint them with your admired in- uentions . I know the best ...
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... scene ) , a successful actor , who had the audacity to write blank verse himself , and who beautified himself with the feathers of all three of them . He can do any- thing this upstart crow , or Johannes factotum , whether it is to act ...
... scene ) , a successful actor , who had the audacity to write blank verse himself , and who beautified himself with the feathers of all three of them . He can do any- thing this upstart crow , or Johannes factotum , whether it is to act ...
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... scenes in 2 Henry VI . , since they are practically identical with those in The Contention , but the reason she gives is that he was too young . And many passages in 3 Henry VI . , must be denied to Shakespeare on the same grounds ...
... scenes in 2 Henry VI . , since they are practically identical with those in The Contention , but the reason she gives is that he was too young . And many passages in 3 Henry VI . , must be denied to Shakespeare on the same grounds ...
Page xvii
... scene of Edward's murder , he attained a drama- tic power and a freedom of versification not found elsewhere in his own undoubted works or in those of any other of Shake- speare's early contemporaries . But this play affords unmis ...
... scene of Edward's murder , he attained a drama- tic power and a freedom of versification not found elsewhere in his own undoubted works or in those of any other of Shake- speare's early contemporaries . But this play affords unmis ...
Page xx
... scenes are necessarily allotted to Peele , and the wooing scene between Edward and the widow in Part III . , as being impossible by Marlowe . He allots Henry VI . to Marlowe with the exception of IV . iv . ; V. i .; V. v . which belong ...
... scenes are necessarily allotted to Peele , and the wooing scene between Edward and the widow in Part III . , as being impossible by Marlowe . He allots Henry VI . to Marlowe with the exception of IV . iv . ; V. i .; V. v . which belong ...
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Page 28 - ... me bread and water, being a king ; So that, for want of sleep and sustenance, My mind's distempered, and my body's numb'd, And whether I have limbs or no, I know not.
Page vii - The Whole Contention betweene the two Famous Houses, Lancaster and Yorke. With the Tragicall ends of the good Duke Humfrey, Richard Duke of Yorke, and King Henrie the sixt. Diuided into two Parts : And newly corrected and enlarged. Written by William Shakespeare, Gent. Printed at London, for TP" A small quarto, containing 64 leaves, A to Q in fours.