The Works of Shakespeare, Volume 11Macmillan and Company, limited, 1903 |
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... comedy . One of the earliest forms which comedy took was the Interlude - a transitional dramatic form with which the name of John Heywood is identified . A London boy , believed to have sung for a time in the choir of the Chapel Royal ...
... comedy . One of the earliest forms which comedy took was the Interlude - a transitional dramatic form with which the name of John Heywood is identified . A London boy , believed to have sung for a time in the choir of the Chapel Royal ...
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... comedy , was produced not later than 1550 - perhaps twenty years after the production of the " Four P's . " Heywood had shown how to set character in distinct outlines on the stage ; Nicholas Udall , an Oxford student , a scholar ...
... comedy , was produced not later than 1550 - perhaps twenty years after the production of the " Four P's . " Heywood had shown how to set character in distinct outlines on the stage ; Nicholas Udall , an Oxford student , a scholar ...
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... comedy as compared with tragedy is not difficult to account for . Tragedy exacts something from an audience ; a certain degree of seriousness or of culture must be possessed by those who are to enjoy or profit by it . Comedy , on the ...
... comedy as compared with tragedy is not difficult to account for . Tragedy exacts something from an audience ; a certain degree of seriousness or of culture must be possessed by those who are to enjoy or profit by it . Comedy , on the ...
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... comedy , with Ovid , Virgil , and Horace , the masters of Latin poetry , with Cicero the orator and Seneca the moralist , Shakespeare made early acquaintance . When Sir Hugh Evans , in the " Merry Wives of Windsor , " listens to the ...
... comedy , with Ovid , Virgil , and Horace , the masters of Latin poetry , with Cicero the orator and Seneca the moralist , Shakespeare made early acquaintance . When Sir Hugh Evans , in the " Merry Wives of Windsor , " listens to the ...
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... nobility of form and loveliness of colour against which the comedy and tragedy of human life are set as upon a divinely ordered stage . CHAPTER IV MARRIAGE AND LONDON THERE are traditions but no 58 William Shakespeare.
... nobility of form and loveliness of colour against which the comedy and tragedy of human life are set as upon a divinely ordered stage . CHAPTER IV MARRIAGE AND LONDON THERE are traditions but no 58 William Shakespeare.
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