The Works of Shakespeare, Volume 11Macmillan and Company, limited, 1903 |
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Page 18
... Ben Jonson would have secured a higher place , but Shakespeare might have been fatally handicapped . " Ferrex and Porrex , " or , as the play is more gen- erally known , " Gorbordoc , " was the earliest English tragedy , and is chiefly ...
... Ben Jonson would have secured a higher place , but Shakespeare might have been fatally handicapped . " Ferrex and Porrex , " or , as the play is more gen- erally known , " Gorbordoc , " was the earliest English tragedy , and is chiefly ...
Page 38
... Ben Jonson was a scholar ; but he had considerable familiarity with four languages ; he had access to many books ; he had read some of them with the most vital insight ; and he was excep- tionally well informed in many directions . He ...
... Ben Jonson was a scholar ; but he had considerable familiarity with four languages ; he had access to many books ; he had read some of them with the most vital insight ; and he was excep- tionally well informed in many directions . He ...
Page 90
... Ben Jonson's plays ; according to Rowe , his most notable rôle was that of the Ghost in " Hamlet " ; one of his brothers , in old age , remembered the dramatist's rendering of the part of Adam in " As You Like It " ; he is reported ...
... Ben Jonson's plays ; according to Rowe , his most notable rôle was that of the Ghost in " Hamlet " ; one of his brothers , in old age , remembered the dramatist's rendering of the part of Adam in " As You Like It " ; he is reported ...
Page 109
... Ben Jonson treated his plays as literature by publishing them in 1616 as his " Works , " he was ridiculed for his pretensions ; and Webster's care to secure correct- ness in the printing of his tragedies laid him open to a charge of ...
... Ben Jonson treated his plays as literature by publishing them in 1616 as his " Works , " he was ridiculed for his pretensions ; and Webster's care to secure correct- ness in the printing of his tragedies laid him open to a charge of ...
Page 221
... Ben Jonson on one side , and Dekker and Marston on the other ; the weapons of warfare , satiri- cal plays . Thirteen ... Jonson's striking and characteristic comedy " Every Man in His Humour , " and his " Poet- aster . " Dekker's ...
... Ben Jonson on one side , and Dekker and Marston on the other ; the weapons of warfare , satiri- cal plays . Thirteen ... Jonson's striking and characteristic comedy " Every Man in His Humour , " and his " Poet- aster . " Dekker's ...
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