ShakspereMacmillan, 1893 - 167 pages |
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... Shak- spere's authorship had many dramatic poets in his pay . His diary still exists , and from it we learn that the highest price given by him for a play before the year 1600 was £ 8 ; the lowest sum is £ 4 ; while for an embroidered ...
... Shak- spere's authorship had many dramatic poets in his pay . His diary still exists , and from it we learn that the highest price given by him for a play before the year 1600 was £ 8 ; the lowest sum is £ 4 ; while for an embroidered ...
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... Shak- spere were girls , who died while infants ; the third- their first - born son - was to live , in spite of the plague which desolated Stratford during the year of his birth , and was to write the plays and poems that we know ...
... Shak- spere were girls , who died while infants ; the third- their first - born son - was to live , in spite of the plague which desolated Stratford during the year of his birth , and was to write the plays and poems that we know ...
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... Shak- spere's failure to appear monthly at church is set . down as caused by the fear of " processe for debt . " Still he seems to have clung to some fragments of his property , and to have retained some of the old esteem of his fellow ...
... Shak- spere's failure to appear monthly at church is set . down as caused by the fear of " processe for debt . " Still he seems to have clung to some fragments of his property , and to have retained some of the old esteem of his fellow ...
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... Comedy of Errors ; or only outrageously spoilt children , but not incapable of being reclaimed , like Katharina in The Taming of the Shrew . It is " " observable , however , that all through his plays Shak- 18 [ CHAP . SHAKSPERE .
... Comedy of Errors ; or only outrageously spoilt children , but not incapable of being reclaimed , like Katharina in The Taming of the Shrew . It is " " observable , however , that all through his plays Shak- 18 [ CHAP . SHAKSPERE .
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Edward Dowden. observable , however , that all through his plays Shak- spere shows a peculiar comprehension of the situation of a woman who , throwing aside conventional but not real modesty , ventures upon certain greater or less ...
Edward Dowden. observable , however , that all through his plays Shak- spere shows a peculiar comprehension of the situation of a woman who , throwing aside conventional but not real modesty , ventures upon certain greater or less ...
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