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Page viii
... writer is under obligations to the entire body of Shakespearean scholars , who have brought together a fund of knowledge open to the world , but collected at great cost of time and thought . He desires to acknowledge his special ...
... writer is under obligations to the entire body of Shakespearean scholars , who have brought together a fund of knowledge open to the world , but collected at great cost of time and thought . He desires to acknowledge his special ...
Page ix
... writer has received for years past , in this as in other fields , both suggestion and stimulus . To Dr. William J. Rolfe he is indebted for many kindnesses of a personal nature . Mr. William Winter has made Shakespeare's coun- try ...
... writer has received for years past , in this as in other fields , both suggestion and stimulus . To Dr. William J. Rolfe he is indebted for many kindnesses of a personal nature . Mr. William Winter has made Shakespeare's coun- try ...
Page xiv
... writer to present the poet as a man , not as a series of problems associated with a name ; to reveal the dramatist in the growth of his spirit , his thought , and his art by filling in the background of landscape , educational ...
... writer to present the poet as a man , not as a series of problems associated with a name ; to reveal the dramatist in the growth of his spirit , his thought , and his art by filling in the background of landscape , educational ...
Page xv
... writer in his conviction that there was room for a biography which , in an unassuming spirit , should put aside the numberless technical questions and approach the author of " Hamlet " as one approaches the author of " In Memoriam of ...
... writer in his conviction that there was room for a biography which , in an unassuming spirit , should put aside the numberless technical questions and approach the author of " Hamlet " as one approaches the author of " In Memoriam of ...
Page 17
... writing was its vitality ; in this , and in its native flavour and its resistance to foreign influence , lay its promise . The earlier development of comedy as compared with tragedy is not difficult to account for . Tragedy exacts ...
... writing was its vitality ; in this , and in its native flavour and its resistance to foreign influence , lay its promise . The earlier development of comedy as compared with tragedy is not difficult to account for . Tragedy exacts ...
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