The Works of Shakespeare, Volume 11Macmillan and Company, limited, 1903 |
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... sixteenth century . One more step in this vital expression of the Eng- lish spirit was taken by Shakespeare's immediate pred- ecessors and by some of his older contemporaries . Such a play as " Arden of Feversham , " 20 William Shakespeare.
... sixteenth century . One more step in this vital expression of the Eng- lish spirit was taken by Shakespeare's immediate pred- ecessors and by some of his older contemporaries . Such a play as " Arden of Feversham , " 20 William Shakespeare.
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... contemporaries . The child William , then four years old , may have seen these companies , bravely dressed , with banners flying , drums beating , and trumpeters sounding their ringing tones , riding over Clopton bridge and halting in ...
... contemporaries . The child William , then four years old , may have seen these companies , bravely dressed , with banners flying , drums beating , and trumpeters sounding their ringing tones , riding over Clopton bridge and halting in ...
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... contemporaries came from the most thoroughly trained of his fellow - dramatists ; one who stood preeminently for the classical tradition in the English drama . Shake- speare was neither by instinct nor opportunity a scholar in the sense ...
... contemporaries came from the most thoroughly trained of his fellow - dramatists ; one who stood preeminently for the classical tradition in the English drama . Shake- speare was neither by instinct nor opportunity a scholar in the sense ...
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... contemporaries , he was a playwright who lived by writing for the stage and not a poet who appealed to a reading public and was eager for literary reputation ; recalling the inferior position which actors occupied in society , and the ...
... contemporaries , he was a playwright who lived by writing for the stage and not a poet who appealed to a reading public and was eager for literary reputation ; recalling the inferior position which actors occupied in society , and the ...
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... contemporaries : " How it would have joyed brave Talbot , " wrote Nash : " to thinke that after he had lyne two hundred yeares in his Tombe hee should triumphe againe on the Stage , and have his bones newe embalmed with the teares of ...
... contemporaries : " How it would have joyed brave Talbot , " wrote Nash : " to thinke that after he had lyne two hundred yeares in his Tombe hee should triumphe againe on the Stage , and have his bones newe embalmed with the teares of ...
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