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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... 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 at once from the fact that the ...
... 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 at once from the fact that the ...
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... perhaps not enough , to give a general idea on the subject . Ample materials for the work are furnished to our hand in Warton's History of English Poetry and Collier's Annals of the Stage , so that the only merit or demerit we can claim ...
... perhaps not enough , to give a general idea on the subject . Ample materials for the work are furnished to our hand in Warton's History of English Poetry and Collier's Annals of the Stage , so that the only merit or demerit we can claim ...
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... perhaps . later ages , and ourselves as the children of a later age , are more indebted to those rude labours of the Clergy in the cause of religion , than we are aware , or might be willing to acknowledge . In its course through ...
... perhaps . later ages , and ourselves as the children of a later age , are more indebted to those rude labours of the Clergy in the cause of religion , than we are aware , or might be willing to acknowledge . In its course through ...
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... perhaps the only specimen of the kind in our language . " It is called The Play of the Blessed Sacrament , and is founded on a miracle alleged to have been wrought in the forest of Arragon , in 1461. The scene of ac- tion was doubtless ...
... perhaps the only specimen of the kind in our language . " It is called The Play of the Blessed Sacrament , and is founded on a miracle alleged to have been wrought in the forest of Arragon , in 1461. The scene of ac- tion was doubtless ...
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... perhaps the only specimen of the kind in our language . " It is called The Play of the Blessed Sacrament , and is founded on a miracle alleged to have been wrought in the forest of Arragon , in 1461. The scene of ac- tion was doubtless ...
... perhaps the only specimen of the kind in our language . " It is called The Play of the Blessed Sacrament , and is founded on a miracle alleged to have been wrought in the forest of Arragon , in 1461. The scene of ac- tion was doubtless ...
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