Select Plays; A Midsummer Night's DreamClarendon Press, 1879 - 147 pages |
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Page iv
... present title as spurious . 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 ...
... present title as spurious . 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 ...
Page vi
... that the picture which it presents had no original in the world of fact , any more than Oberon's bank or Titania's bower . Another passage which has been appealed to as afford- ing internal evidence of the date of our play is vi PREFACE .
... that the picture which it presents had no original in the world of fact , any more than Oberon's bank or Titania's bower . Another passage which has been appealed to as afford- ing internal evidence of the date of our play is vi PREFACE .
Page ix
... and that , from the various compliments which are paid to Elizabeth , the performance . may have taken place when the Queen herself was present , } are no improbable suppositions . But when was this conjuncture PREFACE . ix.
... and that , from the various compliments which are paid to Elizabeth , the performance . may have taken place when the Queen herself was present , } are no improbable suppositions . But when was this conjuncture PREFACE . ix.
Page xiii
... present as a delighted spectator . His childhood recollec- tion of the pageant takes the form some fifteen or twenty years afterwards in which it now appears . Oberon speaks of a mermaid on a dolphin's back , and at Kenilworth there was ...
... present as a delighted spectator . His childhood recollec- tion of the pageant takes the form some fifteen or twenty years afterwards in which it now appears . Oberon speaks of a mermaid on a dolphin's back , and at Kenilworth there was ...
Page xx
... present pangues of death , You sisters three , with cruel handes With speed come stop my breath ! ' Certainly both in this play and in the tragical comedy of Appius and Virginia , printed in 1575 , may be found doggrel no better than ...
... present pangues of death , You sisters three , with cruel handes With speed come stop my breath ! ' Certainly both in this play and in the tragical comedy of Appius and Virginia , printed in 1575 , may be found doggrel no better than ...
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