The Contemporary Shakespeare SeriesUniversity Press of America, 1985 - 645 pages To find out more information about Rowman & Littlefield titles please visit us at www.rowmanlittlefield.com. |
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... Elizabethan age , Shakespeare's time , and have done for years , and am familiar with its language , and his . But even for me there are still difficulties - still more for modern people , whom I am out to help . Who , precisely ? Not ...
... Elizabethan age , Shakespeare's time , and have done for years , and am familiar with its language , and his . But even for me there are still difficulties - still more for modern people , whom I am out to help . Who , precisely ? Not ...
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... Elizabethans , much more familiarly ac- quainted with horseflesh than we are ; but I doubt if Hollywood was able to ... Elizabethan word : it was simply a printer's misprint for ' mourn ' , meaning drip- ping or running ; so it suggests ...
... Elizabethans , much more familiarly ac- quainted with horseflesh than we are ; but I doubt if Hollywood was able to ... Elizabethan word : it was simply a printer's misprint for ' mourn ' , meaning drip- ping or running ; so it suggests ...
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... Elizabethan expletives and malapropisms , or salutations like God ' ild you , Godden , for God shield you , Good - even , and so on . ' God's wounds ' was Elizabeth I's favourite swearword ; it appears frequently enough in Victorian ...
... Elizabethan expletives and malapropisms , or salutations like God ' ild you , Godden , for God shield you , Good - even , and so on . ' God's wounds ' was Elizabeth I's favourite swearword ; it appears frequently enough in Victorian ...
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