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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... nature of the variations we cannot enlarge : suffice it to say that they do not reach beyond mere points of detail ; so that their effect is to approve all the more forcibly the strength of the common principles which underlie and ...
... nature of the variations we cannot enlarge : suffice it to say that they do not reach beyond mere points of detail ; so that their effect is to approve all the more forcibly the strength of the common principles which underlie and ...
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... natural probability ; for , as the operation of the Divine power was assumed , this was treated as a sufficient ground or principle of credibility in itself . Hence , indeed , the name Marvels , Miracles , or Mir- acle - plays , by ...
... natural probability ; for , as the operation of the Divine power was assumed , this was treated as a sufficient ground or principle of credibility in itself . Hence , indeed , the name Marvels , Miracles , or Mir- acle - plays , by ...
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... Nature , Moses , and Christ . In his Expostulation or Complaint , he refers to this play , and says : " Therein it is largely declared , how that faithless Antichrist of Rome , with his clergy , hath been a blemish , darkener ...
... Nature , Moses , and Christ . In his Expostulation or Complaint , he refers to this play , and says : " Therein it is largely declared , how that faithless Antichrist of Rome , with his clergy , hath been a blemish , darkener ...
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... natural ethics . By degrees , allegorical impersonations came , as we have seen , to be more or less mixed up with Scripture char- acters and events ; the aim being to illustrate and enforce the virtues that refer immediately to the ...
... natural ethics . By degrees , allegorical impersonations came , as we have seen , to be more or less mixed up with Scripture char- acters and events ; the aim being to illustrate and enforce the virtues that refer immediately to the ...
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... nature , that in those representations he was endowed in large measure with a biting , caustic humour , and with a coarse , scoffing , profane wit . To these was properly joined an exaggerated grotesqueness of look and manner , such as ...
... nature , that in those representations he was endowed in large measure with a biting , caustic humour , and with a coarse , scoffing , profane wit . To these was properly joined an exaggerated grotesqueness of look and manner , such as ...
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