The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: The Cambridge Text from the Latest Edition of William Aldis Wright; with Introductions, Notes and Glossaries to Each Play by Israel Gollancz. The Complete Notes, with Variorum Readings and General Glossary of Alexander Dyce; a General Introduction, and a Bibliography by W. J. Rolfe; a History of the Drama, and General Criticism by Henry N. Hudson and Others, and a Complete Character Index, Volume 20Colonial Press, 1901 |
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... action , serves as speaker of prologues , and moralizes on the events . This , evi- dently , is an allegorical personage , that is , an ab- stract idea personified , such as afterwards grew into general use , and gave character to the ...
... action , serves as speaker of prologues , and moralizes on the events . This , evi- dently , is an allegorical personage , that is , an ab- stract idea personified , such as afterwards grew into general use , and gave character to the ...
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... action . He , together with Importunity and Partiality , has divers contests with Equity , Charity , and Con- stancy for a while he has the better of them , but at last they catch him alone ; each in turn threatens him with sore ...
... action . He , together with Importunity and Partiality , has divers contests with Equity , Charity , and Con- stancy for a while he has the better of them , but at last they catch him alone ; each in turn threatens him with sore ...
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... action , in the proper sense of the terms , were hardly thought of in the making of Miracle - plays ; the work aiming at nothing higher than a literal or mechanical reflec- tion of facts and events ; sometimes relieved indeed with ...
... action , in the proper sense of the terms , were hardly thought of in the making of Miracle - plays ; the work aiming at nothing higher than a literal or mechanical reflec- tion of facts and events ; sometimes relieved indeed with ...
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... action , and armed with a dagger of lath , per- haps as symbolical that his use of weapons was but to the end of provoking his own defeat , and that he was dangerous only as a friend . He was hugely given to cracking ribald and saucy ...
... action , and armed with a dagger of lath , per- haps as symbolical that his use of weapons was but to the end of provoking his own defeat , and that he was dangerous only as a friend . He was hugely given to cracking ribald and saucy ...
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... action of the Crown in this particular is furnished by a letter from Sir Robert Dudley , afterwards Earl of Leices- ter , to Shrewsbury , then Lord President of the North . Sir Robert had at that time a company of players acting under ...
... action of the Crown in this particular is furnished by a letter from Sir Robert Dudley , afterwards Earl of Leices- ter , to Shrewsbury , then Lord President of the North . Sir Robert had at that time a company of players acting under ...
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