Select Plays; A Midsummer Night's DreamClarendon Press, 1879 - 147 pages |
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Page iv
... play , and Dodipoll was a synonym for a blockhead as early as Latimer's time . In endeavouring therefore to approximate to the date of our play , we may leave out of consideration the passage quoted by Steevens ; for it is , to say the ...
... play , and Dodipoll was a synonym for a blockhead as early as Latimer's time . In endeavouring therefore to approximate to the date of our play , we may leave out of consideration the passage quoted by Steevens ; for it is , to say the ...
Page vi
... play . I am even sceptical enough to think that Titania's speech not only does not describe the events of the year 1594 , or of the other bad seasons which happened at this time , but that it is purely the product of the poet's own ...
... play . I am even sceptical enough to think that Titania's speech not only does not describe the events of the year 1594 , or of the other bad seasons which happened at this time , but that it is purely the product of the poet's own ...
Page vii
... play was in existence in 1598. It was Knight who first suggested that the reference is to the death of Greene . Rejecting the supposition of Warton that Shakespeare here ' alluded to Spenser's poem entitled " The Teares of the Muses ...
... play was in existence in 1598. It was Knight who first suggested that the reference is to the death of Greene . Rejecting the supposition of Warton that Shakespeare here ' alluded to Spenser's poem entitled " The Teares of the Muses ...
Page ix
... play , is the occasion for which it was 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 ...
... play , is the occasion for which it was 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 ...
Page x
... play was 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 ...
... play was 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 ...
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