The Works of Shakespeare ..., Volume 26Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1924 |
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... original copy , which Shakespeare sold to his company , was in his own handwriting . The arguments put forward by Mr. Pollard in support of this theory are : first1 ( of playwrights in general ) , that the employment of a scrivener to ...
... original copy , which Shakespeare sold to his company , was in his own handwriting . The arguments put forward by Mr. Pollard in support of this theory are : first1 ( of playwrights in general ) , that the employment of a scrivener to ...
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... original Italian or in some lost English version . Furness seems to be right in his view that he owes nothing to Belle - Forest's French translation , published in 1582 , under the name of Histoires Tragiques.1 Thirdly , Shakespeare ...
... original Italian or in some lost English version . Furness seems to be right in his view that he owes nothing to Belle - Forest's French translation , published in 1582 , under the name of Histoires Tragiques.1 Thirdly , Shakespeare ...
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... original sources , without our having to take refuge in the theory of survivals from an old play . The difficulty of Margaret's share in the plot is , in fact , inherent in the original story . In the versions of both Ariosto and ...
... original sources , without our having to take refuge in the theory of survivals from an old play . The difficulty of Margaret's share in the plot is , in fact , inherent in the original story . In the versions of both Ariosto and ...
Page xix
... original theme . In connection with the Margaret - Borachio plot we would only add that Shakespeare knew well what he was about when he trusted to report the incident of the midnight assigna- tion and chose for his great central scene ...
... original theme . In connection with the Margaret - Borachio plot we would only add that Shakespeare knew well what he was about when he trusted to report the incident of the midnight assigna- tion and chose for his great central scene ...
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... original manuscript in 1908 , is of the first interest in the study of Much Ado About Nothing as it offers an independent Elizabethan dramatic version of the Ginevra story from Ariosto . It proves , by contrast , more clearly than could ...
... original manuscript in 1908 , is of the first interest in the study of Much Ado About Nothing as it offers an independent Elizabethan dramatic version of the Ginevra story from Ariosto . It proves , by contrast , more clearly than could ...
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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.