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... STEEVENS and MALONE . CHALMERS , also , made a chronological list of the plays , pointing out various errors in MALONE'S list , and , among other changes , assigned the date , 1595 , to Richard III .; MALONE evidently felt some force in ...
... STEEVENS and MALONE . CHALMERS , also , made a chronological list of the plays , pointing out various errors in MALONE'S list , and , among other changes , assigned the date , 1595 , to Richard III .; MALONE evidently felt some force in ...
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... STEEVENS's words of praise for certain of Cibber's omissions . It is with great pleasure that I acknowledge my gratitude to those who have shown much courtesy to me in the work of preparing these pages - first and foremost , to him who ...
... STEEVENS's words of praise for certain of Cibber's omissions . It is with great pleasure that I acknowledge my gratitude to those who have shown much courtesy to me in the work of preparing these pages - first and foremost , to him who ...
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... STEEVENS : It appears that several dramas on the present subject had been written before Shakespeare attempted it . The date of Q , is 1597 , but before this , viz . , August 15 , 1586 , was entered at the Stationers ' A tragical Report ...
... STEEVENS : It appears that several dramas on the present subject had been written before Shakespeare attempted it . The date of Q , is 1597 , but before this , viz . , August 15 , 1586 , was entered at the Stationers ' A tragical Report ...
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... STEEVENS : Thus in Sidney's Astrophel and Stella : ' Gone in the winter of my miserie . ' [ This note by Steevens does not appear in any of the Variorum editions before that of 1803 . This would not be worth the noting were it not that ...
... STEEVENS : Thus in Sidney's Astrophel and Stella : ' Gone in the winter of my miserie . ' [ This note by Steevens does not appear in any of the Variorum editions before that of 1803 . This would not be worth the noting were it not that ...
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... STEEVENS : Alluding to the cognizance of Edward IV . which was a sun , in memory of the three suns , which are said to have appeared at the battle which he gained over the Lancastrians at Mortimer's Cross . [ See 3 Henry VI : II , i ...
... STEEVENS : Alluding to the cognizance of Edward IV . which was a sun , in memory of the three suns , which are said to have appeared at the battle which he gained over the Lancastrians at Mortimer's Cross . [ See 3 Henry VI : II , i ...
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