Shakespeare's Life and WorkMacmillan, 1900 - 231 pages |
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... issued to his son John by the Probate Court at Worcester . His goods were valued at 35 % . 175. , which would be equivalent to 2867. 16s . in modern currency , the purchasing power of money being then eight times what it is now ...
... issued to his son John by the Probate Court at Worcester . His goods were valued at 35 % . 175. , which would be equivalent to 2867. 16s . in modern currency , the purchasing power of money being then eight times what it is now ...
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... issued between 1565 and 1597. From Plautus Shakespeare drew the plot of the ' Comedy of Errors , ' and it is just possible that Plautus's comedies , too , were accessible in English . Shakespeare had no title to rank as a classical ...
... issued between 1565 and 1597. From Plautus Shakespeare drew the plot of the ' Comedy of Errors , ' and it is just possible that Plautus's comedies , too , were accessible in English . Shakespeare had no title to rank as a classical ...
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... issued on November 27 , 1582 ( the day before the signing of the Hathaway bond ) , authorising his marriage with Anne Whateley of Temple Grafton . The theory that the maiden name of Shakespeare's wife was Whateley is quite un- tenable ...
... issued on November 27 , 1582 ( the day before the signing of the Hathaway bond ) , authorising his marriage with Anne Whateley of Temple Grafton . The theory that the maiden name of Shakespeare's wife was Whateley is quite un- tenable ...
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... issued in quarto in 1597 anonymously and surreptitiously — ' as it hath been often ( with great applause ) plaid publiquely by the right honour- able the L [ ord ] of Hunsdon his servants . ' The printer and publisher of the work was ...
... issued in quarto in 1597 anonymously and surreptitiously — ' as it hath been often ( with great applause ) plaid publiquely by the right honour- able the L [ ord ] of Hunsdon his servants . ' The printer and publisher of the work was ...
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... issued by a living author under strictly regular condi- tions . Thorpe employed George Eld to print the manu- script , and two booksellers , William Aspley and John Wright , to distribute the volume to the public . On half the edition ...
... issued by a living author under strictly regular condi- tions . Thorpe employed George Eld to print the manu- script , and two booksellers , William Aspley and John Wright , to distribute the volume to the public . On half the edition ...
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Page 86 - Like to the senators of the antique Rome, With the plebeians swarming at their heels, Go forth and fetch their conquering Caesar in : As, by a lower but loving likelihood, Were now the general of our gracious empress, As in good time he may, from Ireland coming, Bringing rebellion broached on his sword, How many would the peaceful city quit, To welcome him ! much more, and much more cause, Did they this Harry.
Page 63 - The warrant I have of your honourable disposition, not the worth of my untutor'd lines, makes it assured of acceptance. What I have done is yours ; what I have to do is yours ; being part in all I have, devoted yours.
Page 137 - True/ representing some principal pieces of the reign of Henry VIII., which was set forth with many extraordinary circumstances of pomp and majesty, even to the matting of the stage; the knights of the order with their Georges and garters, the guards with their embroidered coats, and the like ; sufficient, in truth, within a while, to make greatness very familiar, if not ridiculous.
Page 137 - King Henry, making a masque at the Cardinal Wolsey's house, and certain cannons being shot off at his entry, some of the paper or other stuff wherewith one of them was stopped, did light on the thatch, where being thought at first but an idle...
Page 51 - Sweet Swan of Avon ! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our James...
Page 34 - As it hath been often (with great applause) plaid publiquely, by the right Honourable the L. of Hunsdon his Seruants.
Page 69 - And the sad augurs mock their own presage; Incertainties now crown themselves assured, And peace proclaims olives of endless age. Now with the drops of this most balmy time My love looks fresh, and Death to me subscribes. Since, spite of him, I'll live in this poor rhyme, While he insults o'er dull and speechless tribes; And thou in this shalt find thy monument, When tyrants' crests and tombs of brass are spent.
Page 185 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily : when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Page 16 - And though this, probably the first essay of his poetry, be lost, yet it is said to have been so very bitter, that it redoubled the prosecution against him to that degree, that he was obliged to leave his business and family in Warwickshire, for some time, and shelter himself in London.
Page 112 - O that Ben Jonson is a pestilent fellow ; he brought up Horace, giving the poets a pill ; but our fellow Shakespeare hath given him a purge, that made him bewray his credit.