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Page iv
... Titania is supposed to refer in her reproaches of Oberon ( ii . 1. 81-117 ) , and which she attributes to their quarrel . ' The moneths of the year haue not yet gone about , wherin the Lord hath bowed the heauens , and come down amongst ...
... Titania is supposed to refer in her reproaches of Oberon ( ii . 1. 81-117 ) , and which she attributes to their quarrel . ' The moneths of the year haue not yet gone about , wherin the Lord hath bowed the heauens , and come down amongst ...
Page vi
... Titania's speech that I have thought it best to give them at length , if only for the purpose of shewing that in all probability Shakespeare had not the year 1594 in his mind at all . It is true that King , and Stowe , and Forman alike ...
... Titania's speech that I have thought it best to give them at length , if only for the purpose of shewing that in all probability Shakespeare had not the year 1594 in his mind at all . It is true that King , and Stowe , and Forman alike ...
Page xiii
... Titania . That in the fair vestal throned by the west Shakespeare intended a compliment to Queen Elizabeth is probably the only part of Warburton's theory with which any one will agree . Ritson and others have pointed out important ...
... Titania . That in the fair vestal throned by the west Shakespeare intended a compliment to Queen Elizabeth is probably the only part of Warburton's theory with which any one will agree . Ritson and others have pointed out important ...
Page xv
... Titania . There is a court and chivalry : Oberon would have the Queen's sweet changeling to be a " knight of his train to trace the forest wild . " Like earthly monarchs he had his jester , " the shrewd and knavish sprite , called Robin ...
... Titania . There is a court and chivalry : Oberon would have the Queen's sweet changeling to be a " knight of his train to trace the forest wild . " Like earthly monarchs he had his jester , " the shrewd and knavish sprite , called Robin ...
Page xvi
... Titania for the Queen of the Fairies appears to have been the invention of Shakespeare . In Romeo and Juliet she is known by the more familiar appellation Queen • Mab , and in an entertainment given to Elizabeth by the Earl of Hertford ...
... Titania for the Queen of the Fairies appears to have been the invention of Shakespeare . In Romeo and Juliet she is known by the more familiar appellation Queen • Mab , and in an entertainment given to Elizabeth by the Earl of Hertford ...
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