The Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems of William Shakspere: ComediesC. Knight, 1842 |
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... Comedy of Syr John Falstaffe , and the Merry Wives of Windsor . Entermixed with sundrie variable and pleasing humors of Sr Hugh the Welch Knight , Justice Shallow , and his wise Cousin M. Slender . With the swaggering vaine of Ancient ...
... Comedy of Syr John Falstaffe , and the Merry Wives of Windsor . Entermixed with sundrie variable and pleasing humors of Sr Hugh the Welch Knight , Justice Shallow , and his wise Cousin M. Slender . With the swaggering vaine of Ancient ...
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... comedy - one of the most perfect of the minor characters of Shaks- pere — is a very inferior conception in the first copy . Our Slender has been worked up out of the first rough sketch , with touches at once delicate and powerful ...
... comedy - one of the most perfect of the minor characters of Shaks- pere — is a very inferior conception in the first copy . Our Slender has been worked up out of the first rough sketch , with touches at once delicate and powerful ...
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... comedy , ' Sail like my pinnace to those golden shores , ' shows that it was written after Sir Walter Raleigh's return from Guiana in 1596 . ( ( " The first sketch of ' The Merry Wives of Windsor ' was printed in 1602. It was entered in ...
... comedy , ' Sail like my pinnace to those golden shores , ' shows that it was written after Sir Walter Raleigh's return from Guiana in 1596 . ( ( " The first sketch of ' The Merry Wives of Windsor ' was printed in 1602. It was entered in ...
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... comedy were successively written in 1596 , and in 1597 , but that ' Henry V. ' was produced the last . He says , " In it ( Henry V. ' ) Falstaff does not come out upon the stage , but dies of a sweat , after performing less than the ...
... comedy were successively written in 1596 , and in 1597 , but that ' Henry V. ' was produced the last . He says , " In it ( Henry V. ' ) Falstaff does not come out upon the stage , but dies of a sweat , after performing less than the ...
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... comedy was written at her ( Queen Elizabeth's ) command , and by her direction , and she was so eager to see it acted that she commanded it to be finished in fourteen days ; and was afterwards , as tradition tells us , very well pleased ...
... comedy was written at her ( Queen Elizabeth's ) command , and by her direction , and she was so eager to see it acted that she commanded it to be finished in fourteen days ; and was afterwards , as tradition tells us , very well pleased ...
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