A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: Macbeth. 1873J. B. Lippincott & Company, 1873 |
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Page v
... less variety exists in copies bearing the same date on the title - page . That the copies of the First Folio vary has been generally known ever since the appearance , a dozen years ago , of Booth's most accurate Reprint . Wherefore ...
... less variety exists in copies bearing the same date on the title - page . That the copies of the First Folio vary has been generally known ever since the appearance , a dozen years ago , of Booth's most accurate Reprint . Wherefore ...
Page viii
... less accurate reprint of the First Folio ; some of the most noteworthy discrepancies , however , that occur in the First Act are as follows , and I might as well give them here , since they are not recorded in the textual notes : In I ...
... less accurate reprint of the First Folio ; some of the most noteworthy discrepancies , however , that occur in the First Act are as follows , and I might as well give them here , since they are not recorded in the textual notes : In I ...
Page xi
... less remote , of the SOURCE OF THE PLOT . The discussion on the DATE OF THE PLAY follows next in order , together with an account of MIDDLETON's Witch , of which the scenes that have any relation to the present tragedy are reprinted ...
... less remote , of the SOURCE OF THE PLOT . The discussion on the DATE OF THE PLAY follows next in order , together with an account of MIDDLETON's Witch , of which the scenes that have any relation to the present tragedy are reprinted ...
Page 3
... Less study , less experience in human nature , less mental acquirements of every kind , I conceive , were employed on Macbeth , wonderfully as the whole character is displayed before us , than on those imaginary creations , the three ...
... Less study , less experience in human nature , less mental acquirements of every kind , I conceive , were employed on Macbeth , wonderfully as the whole character is displayed before us , than on those imaginary creations , the three ...
Page 36
... less , hail may be the right word , though the simile is very trite . WHITE . To say that men arrived as thick as tale , i . e . as fast as they could be told , is an admissible hyperbole ; to say that men arrived as thick as hail , i ...
... less , hail may be the right word , though the simile is very trite . WHITE . To say that men arrived as thick as tale , i . e . as fast as they could be told , is an admissible hyperbole ; to say that men arrived as thick as hail , i ...
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ABBOTT ambition appears BAILEY ii Banq Banquo blood called castle Cawdor character CLARENDON Coll COLLIER Compare conj Cotgrave crime crown dagger death deed DELIUS doubt drama Duncan Dunsinane Dyce Edition ELWIN English Enter Macbeth evil Exeunt Exit expression eyes fear feeling Fleance Ghost give hand HARRY ROWE hath haue heart HEATH heaven Hecate Holinshed honour horror Huds human HUNTER husband Johns JOHNSON king Ktly Lady Macbeth Lady Macduff LETTSOM lord Macb Macd Macduff Mach Malcolm MALONE means mind murder nature night noble passage perhaps play poet Pope present Ross scene Scotland seems sense Shakespeare Sing Siward sleep speak spirits STAUNTON Steev STEEVENS thane Thane of Cawdor thee Theob thou thought tion tragedy verb vnto WALKER Crit Warb weird sisters White wife witches word
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Page 398 - Mackbeth 1 that had ysurped the crowne of Scotland, and, that doone, placed Malcolme surnamed Camoir, the sonne of Duncane, sometime king of Scotland, in the gouernement of that realme, who afterward slue the said Mackbeth, and then reigned in quiet . . . It is recorded also, that, in the foresaid battell...