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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... original and independent growth , the native and free product of the soil ; not a mere revival , or reproduction , or continuation of what had existed somewhere else . This position will be found very material when we approach the ...
... original and independent growth , the native and free product of the soil ; not a mere revival , or reproduction , or continuation of what had existed somewhere else . This position will be found very material when we approach the ...
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... original and used by earlier and perhaps equally good authorities , is that of the Gothic Drama . Such , accordingly , is the term by which we shall distinguish it in these pages . The fitness of the name , it is thought , will be seen ...
... original and used by earlier and perhaps equally good authorities , is that of the Gothic Drama . Such , accordingly , is the term by which we shall distinguish it in these pages . The fitness of the name , it is thought , will be seen ...
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... original , the Drama was of ecclesiastical origin , and for a long time was used only as a means of diffusing among the people a knowledge of the leading facts and doctrines of Christianity as then understood and received . Of course ...
... original , the Drama was of ecclesiastical origin , and for a long time was used only as a means of diffusing among the people a knowledge of the leading facts and doctrines of Christianity as then understood and received . Of course ...
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... original having been written by the celebrated Beza , and performed at Lausanne about 1550. It opens with a dialogue between Abraham and Sarah , who unite in singing a hymn . Satan then enters " in the habit of a monk , " and makes a ...
... original having been written by the celebrated Beza , and performed at Lausanne about 1550. It opens with a dialogue between Abraham and Sarah , who unite in singing a hymn . Satan then enters " in the habit of a monk , " and makes a ...
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... original sphere , of revealed religion , into that of 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 ...
... original sphere , of revealed religion , into that of 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 ...
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