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Page iii
... written at least as early as 1598 , for ' Midsummers Night Dreame ' is enumerated among Shakespeare's plays by Francis Meres in his Palladis Tamia ( p . 282 ) , which was published in that year . How long before this time it had been ...
... written at least as early as 1598 , for ' Midsummers Night Dreame ' is enumerated among Shakespeare's plays by Francis Meres in his Palladis Tamia ( p . 282 ) , which was published in that year . How long before this time it had been ...
Page iv
... written before 1598 . Chetwood , in his British Theatre , published in Dublin in 1750 , gives a list of the early editions of Shakespeare's plays , in which appears ' A moste pleasaunte comedie , called A Midsummer Night's Dreame ...
... written before 1598 . Chetwood , in his British Theatre , published in Dublin in 1750 , gives a list of the early editions of Shakespeare's plays , in which appears ' A moste pleasaunte comedie , called A Midsummer Night's Dreame ...
Page viii
... writing Midsummer Night's Dream , is that he uses the word ' compact , ' which is also found in Lodge . The next step in Chalmers's argument is that in 1597 there was a poem , entitled Pyramus and Thisbe , published by Dunstan Gale ...
... writing Midsummer Night's Dream , is that he uses the word ' compact , ' which is also found in Lodge . The next step in Chalmers's argument is that in 1597 there was a poem , entitled Pyramus and Thisbe , published by Dunstan Gale ...
Page ix
... written . If this could be determined with any degree of probability we should be able to ascertain within a little the time at which it was composed . But here again we embark upon a wide sea of conjecture , with neither star nor ...
... written . If this could be determined with any degree of probability we should be able to ascertain within a little the time at which it was composed . But here again we embark upon a wide sea of conjecture , with neither star nor ...
Page x
... written some time before , when it was thought probable that the Queen's consent might have been obtained , and he accordingly places it in 1595. He goes further and believes that in the play ' many touches tend to show that Hermia is ...
... written some time before , when it was thought probable that the Queen's consent might have been obtained , and he accordingly places it in 1595. He goes further and believes that in the play ' many touches tend to show that Hermia is ...
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