The Works of Shakespeare ..., Volume 26Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1924 |
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Page xvi
... Hero's mother in the opening stage- directions to I. i . and II . i .; in the reference to Antonio's son , I. ii . I ; and in the unexplained allusions Beatrice makes to events of which the audience knows nothing in I. i . 35 ( “ He set ...
... Hero's mother in the opening stage- directions to I. i . and II . i .; in the reference to Antonio's son , I. ii . I ; and in the unexplained allusions Beatrice makes to events of which the audience knows nothing in I. i . 35 ( “ He set ...
Page xviii
... Hero's garments and to be called by Hero's name , and still have no inkling of any intended evil against her mistress . The obvious answer to these questions , that Shakespeare was writing for an Elizabethan audience and not for the ...
... Hero's garments and to be called by Hero's name , and still have no inkling of any intended evil against her mistress . The obvious answer to these questions , that Shakespeare was writing for an Elizabethan audience and not for the ...
Page xix
... Hero " ; it is not im- plied that she is his mistress . Thus , in slight , as in more obvious ways , Shakespeare contrives to relieve the essential ugliness of the original theme . In connection with the Margaret - Borachio plot we ...
... Hero " ; it is not im- plied that she is his mistress . Thus , in slight , as in more obvious ways , Shakespeare contrives to relieve the essential ugliness of the original theme . In connection with the Margaret - Borachio plot we ...
Page xx
... hero ? The church scene is thus made to serve the ends of both situation and character . The window episode , convincing enough in a long poem or novel , would fail in dramatic effect if represented on the stage . It would lack ...
... hero ? The church scene is thus made to serve the ends of both situation and character . The window episode , convincing enough in a long poem or novel , would fail in dramatic effect if represented on the stage . It would lack ...
Page xxi
... hero or by the rascality of the villain ; both , as is inevitable in such an episode , seem artificial and - in the bad sense - theatrical.1 We leave as a pleasantly insoluble problem this theory of the old play and its subsequent ...
... hero or by the rascality of the villain ; both , as is inevitable in such an episode , seem artificial and - in the bad sense - theatrical.1 We leave as a pleasantly insoluble problem this theory of the old play and its subsequent ...
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Page 75 - Of every hearer; for it so falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lack'd and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours.
Page 67 - I have railed so long against marriage: But doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his youth, that he cannot endure in his age: Shall quips, and sentences, and these paper bullets of the brain, awe a man from the career of his humour? No: The world must be peopled. When I said, I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married.— Here comes Beatrice : By this day, she's a fair lady : I do spy some marks of love in her.
Page 39 - Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love : Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues ; Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent : for beauty is a witch, Against whose charms faith melteth into blood.
Page 86 - Why then, take no note of him, but let him go ; and presently call the rest of the watch together, and thank God you are rid of a knave.