Select Plays; A Midsummer Night's DreamClarendon Press, 1879 - 147 pages |
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Page iv
... Night's Dream , as that Shakespeare borrowed from him a conceit which is not very far - fetched . All that we really know is that the Midsummer Night's Dream was written before 1598 . Chetwood , in his British Theatre , published in ...
... Night's Dream , as that Shakespeare borrowed from him a conceit which is not very far - fetched . All that we really know is that the Midsummer Night's Dream was written before 1598 . Chetwood , in his British Theatre , published in ...
Page viii
... Night's Dream in the early part of 1598. He finds , in the speech of Theseus at the beginning of the fifth act , the line , ' One sees more devils than vast hell can hold , ' which , he says , ' is , plainly , a sarcasm on Lodge's ...
... Night's Dream in the early part of 1598. He finds , in the speech of Theseus at the beginning of the fifth act , the line , ' One sees more devils than vast hell can hold , ' which , he says , ' is , plainly , a sarcasm on Lodge's ...
Page x
... Night's Dream ; but as this marriage did not take place till 1598 , and was then kept secret in order to avoid the Queen's displeasure , Mr. Massey supposes that the play was written some time before , when it was thought probable that ...
... Night's Dream ; but as this marriage did not take place till 1598 , and was then kept secret in order to avoid the Queen's displeasure , Mr. Massey supposes that the play was written some time before , when it was thought probable that ...
Page xi
... Night's Dream was per- formed , ' not on the marriage - day itself but on the May - day festival which followed close afterwards , ' looking in the calendar found out moonshine , and ascertained that there was a new moon on April 30 ...
... Night's Dream was per- formed , ' not on the marriage - day itself but on the May - day festival which followed close afterwards , ' looking in the calendar found out moonshine , and ascertained that there was a new moon on April 30 ...
Page xii
... Night's Dream , while I cannot think the latter was composed after the plays assigned above to 1593 , 1594 , and would therefore place it in the interval from 1591 to 1593 , when perhaps Romeo and Juliet may have been begun . But if ...
... Night's Dream , while I cannot think the latter was composed after the plays assigned above to 1593 , 1594 , and would therefore place it in the interval from 1591 to 1593 , when perhaps Romeo and Juliet may have been begun . But if ...
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