The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 1Bell, 1899 |
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Page x
... plays as identical with the eternal memory of his personal sensibilities and proper worth . For the rest , — the incomparable genius of the man would alone account for his surmounting difficulties , however great , though , as in the ...
... plays as identical with the eternal memory of his personal sensibilities and proper worth . For the rest , — the incomparable genius of the man would alone account for his surmounting difficulties , however great , though , as in the ...
Page xi
... plays all his younger time , but in his elder days lived at Stratford , and supplied the stage with two plays every year , and for it had an allowance so large that he spent at the rate of £ 1000 a year , as I have heard . ” In 1675 ...
... plays all his younger time , but in his elder days lived at Stratford , and supplied the stage with two plays every year , and for it had an allowance so large that he spent at the rate of £ 1000 a year , as I have heard . ” In 1675 ...
Page xii
... plays took well . He was a handsome , well - shaped man , very good company , and of a very ready and pleasant smooth wit . " The humour of . . . . . . the constable in Midsummer Night's Dream , he happened to take at Grendon , in Bucks ...
... plays took well . He was a handsome , well - shaped man , very good company , and of a very ready and pleasant smooth wit . " The humour of . . . . . . the constable in Midsummer Night's Dream , he happened to take at Grendon , in Bucks ...
Page xvi
... play- house continued , the waiters that held the horses retained the appellation of Shakespeare's boys . " Such a practice certainly existed , and there is nothing incredible about the currency of such an appellation for the boys - the ...
... play- house continued , the waiters that held the horses retained the appellation of Shakespeare's boys . " Such a practice certainly existed , and there is nothing incredible about the currency of such an appellation for the boys - the ...
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... player , reported from Sir William Bishop that some part of Sir John Falstaff's character was drawn from a townsman of Stratford , who either faithlessly broke a contract or spitefully refused to part with some land for a valuable ...
... player , reported from Sir William Bishop that some part of Sir John Falstaff's character was drawn from a townsman of Stratford , who either faithlessly broke a contract or spitefully refused to part with some land for a valuable ...
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