The Works of Shakespeare, Volume 11Macmillan and Company, limited, 1903 |
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William Shakespeare Charles Harold Herford. searched the whole field of contemporary literature , records , and history with infinite patience and with keen intelligence , by the history of his time , and by a study of his work . The ...
William Shakespeare Charles Harold Herford. searched the whole field of contemporary literature , records , and history with infinite patience and with keen intelligence , by the history of his time , and by a study of his work . The ...
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... literary data relating to the sources of the plays and poems , and an interpretation of their place and meaning in Shakespeare's work as a whole ; while the notes indicate the radical departures from the old texts , suggest XV Introduction.
... literary data relating to the sources of the plays and poems , and an interpretation of their place and meaning in Shakespeare's work as a whole ; while the notes indicate the radical departures from the old texts , suggest XV Introduction.
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... touch with nature that the whole world was alive to them in every sight and sound . Personification was not only natural but inevi- table to a race whose imagination was far in advance B I CHAPTER I THE FORERUNNERS OF SHAKESPEARE.
... touch with nature that the whole world was alive to them in every sight and sound . Personification was not only natural but inevi- table to a race whose imagination was far in advance B I CHAPTER I THE FORERUNNERS OF SHAKESPEARE.
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... whole range of feeling and action . It embraced humour as readily as it embraced the most serious conviction and the most elevated emotion . It was , therefore , entirely congru- ous with the deepest piety of the time that grotesque ...
... whole range of feeling and action . It embraced humour as readily as it embraced the most serious conviction and the most elevated emotion . It was , therefore , entirely congru- ous with the deepest piety of the time that grotesque ...
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... whole body of the Eng- lish people . In these plays , probably covering the entire field of English history , the doings and the ex- periences of the English race were set forth in the most vital fashion ; English history dramatically ...
... whole body of the Eng- lish people . In these plays , probably covering the entire field of English history , the doings and the ex- periences of the English race were set forth in the most vital fashion ; English history dramatically ...
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