Select Plays; A Midsummer Night's DreamClarendon Press, 1879 - 147 pages |
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Page iii
... flowers , Hanging on every leaf an orient pearl . ' Malone pointed out that although no earlier edition is known of this anonymous comedy than that of 1600 yet Doctor Dodi- powle is mentioned by Nashe in 1596 , in his preface to Gabriel ...
... flowers , Hanging on every leaf an orient pearl . ' Malone pointed out that although no earlier edition is known of this anonymous comedy than that of 1600 yet Doctor Dodi- powle is mentioned by Nashe in 1596 , in his preface to Gabriel ...
Page xiii
... flower by means of whose magical properties he wished to revenge himself upon 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 ...
... flower by means of whose magical properties he wished to revenge himself upon 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 ...
Page xiv
... flower is Lettice , Countess of Essex , with whom Leicester intrigued during the lifetime of her husband , and whom he after- wards married . We must at any rate give the inventor of this interpretation credit for remarkable ingenuity ...
... flower is Lettice , Countess of Essex , with whom Leicester intrigued during the lifetime of her husband , and whom he after- wards married . We must at any rate give the inventor of this interpretation credit for remarkable ingenuity ...
Page xix
... on the Folklore of Shakespeare . It has been suggested that the device employed by Oberon to enchant Titania , by anointing her eyelids with the juice of a flower , may have been borrowed by Shakespeare b 2 PREFACE . xix.
... on the Folklore of Shakespeare . It has been suggested that the device employed by Oberon to enchant Titania , by anointing her eyelids with the juice of a flower , may have been borrowed by Shakespeare b 2 PREFACE . xix.
Page xx
William Shakespeare. of a flower , may have been borrowed by Shakespeare from the Spanish Romance of Diana by George ... flowers . Dr. Farmer observed to Malone that in the lines spoken by Pyramus ' Approach , ye furies fell , ' & c ...
William Shakespeare. of a flower , may have been borrowed by Shakespeare from the Spanish Romance of Diana by George ... flowers . Dr. Farmer observed to Malone that in the lines spoken by Pyramus ' Approach , ye furies fell , ' & c ...
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