The Best Elizabethan Plays ...William Roscoe Thayer Ginn & Company, 1895 - 609 pages |
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... death , to speculate whether he might not , had he lived to maturity , have equalled Shake- speare himself ; but such speculation seems to me to betray the uncritical temperament of those who indulge in it . We cannot reasonably doubt ...
... death , to speculate whether he might not , had he lived to maturity , have equalled Shake- speare himself ; but such speculation seems to me to betray the uncritical temperament of those who indulge in it . We cannot reasonably doubt ...
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... John Fletcher , and had already become renowned , when he was cut off by death in 1615. Fletcher , whose father was Dean of Peterborough , and then Bishop of Worcester , was born at Rye , in Sussex , in December , 1579. PREFACE . II.
... John Fletcher , and had already become renowned , when he was cut off by death in 1615. Fletcher , whose father was Dean of Peterborough , and then Bishop of Worcester , was born at Rye , in Sussex , in December , 1579. PREFACE . II.
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... death of the former , it is easy to separate those plays which they wrote together from those which Fletcher wrote alone , and by this process the reader who is curious can determine more or less accurately which parts should be ...
... death of the former , it is easy to separate those plays which they wrote together from those which Fletcher wrote alone , and by this process the reader who is curious can determine more or less accurately which parts should be ...
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... death . As I have given in the notes the opinions of the critics most com- petent to decide the question of authorship , I need not pur- sue the matter here , and will only add that The Two Noble Kinsmen deserves to be known and admired ...
... death . As I have given in the notes the opinions of the critics most com- petent to decide the question of authorship , I need not pur- sue the matter here , and will only add that The Two Noble Kinsmen deserves to be known and admired ...
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... struck in front , when reputations could be done to death by Iago - insinua- tions as surely as the body by subtle , invisible poisons . The - --- glorious seeds of the Renaissance had produced in Italy . 16 PREFACE .
... struck in front , when reputations could be done to death by Iago - insinua- tions as surely as the body by subtle , invisible poisons . The - --- glorious seeds of the Renaissance had produced in Italy . 16 PREFACE .
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