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Page iii
... 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 Harvey's Hunt is Up . This however proves nothing ...
... 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 Harvey's Hunt is Up . This however proves nothing ...
Page iv
... Malone at first placed the Midsummer Night's Dream in the year 1595 , then as early as 1592 , but his later opinion was that it was written in 1594. In that year Dr. King , afterwards Bishop of London , preached at York a series of ...
... Malone at first placed the Midsummer Night's Dream in the year 1595 , then as early as 1592 , but his later opinion was that it was written in 1594. In that year Dr. King , afterwards Bishop of London , preached at York a series of ...
Page viii
... weight . He next takes for granted what is merely suggested by Malone , that Shakespeare borrowed from a comedy called the Wisdom of Doctor Dodipoll , and further that this comedy was published in , or before viii PREFACE .
... weight . He next takes for granted what is merely suggested by Malone , that Shakespeare borrowed from a comedy called the Wisdom of Doctor Dodipoll , and further that this comedy was published in , or before viii PREFACE .
Page xx
... Malone that in the lines spoken by Pyramus ' Approach , ye furies fell , ' & c . , and in those of Thisbe's speech , " O sisters three , Come , come to me , With hands as pale as milk , ' Shakespeare intended to ridicule a passage in ...
... Malone that in the lines spoken by Pyramus ' Approach , ye furies fell , ' & c . , and in those of Thisbe's speech , " O sisters three , Come , come to me , With hands as pale as milk , ' Shakespeare intended to ridicule a passage in ...
Page 69
... Malone refers to other instances in which Shake- speare has used the same figure . See Sonnet v . 13 , 14 : ' But flowers distill'd , though they with winter meet , Leese but their show ; their substance still lives sweet . ' The next ...
... Malone refers to other instances in which Shake- speare has used the same figure . See Sonnet v . 13 , 14 : ' But flowers distill'd , though they with winter meet , Leese but their show ; their substance still lives sweet . ' The next ...
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