ShakspereMacmillan, 1893 - 167 pages |
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... critics have attempted to identify it with The Taming of the Shrew , some with Much Ado . ( 3 ) Without express mention of a play of Shakspere , it may be clearly alluded to , or a quotation be made from it , or some passage may be ...
... critics have attempted to identify it with The Taming of the Shrew , some with Much Ado . ( 3 ) Without express mention of a play of Shakspere , it may be clearly alluded to , or a quotation be made from it , or some passage may be ...
Page 51
... critics placing it as late as 1602-1603 or later ( which seems incredible ) , some as early as 1594. In its rough and boisterous mirth it has affinities with The Merry Wives , and perhaps lies close to it in the chronological order ...
... critics placing it as late as 1602-1603 or later ( which seems incredible ) , some as early as 1594. In its rough and boisterous mirth it has affinities with The Merry Wives , and perhaps lies close to it in the chronological order ...
Page 52
... critic of life , breathing through the glades of Arden , the melancholy of Jaques , is like the first touch of autumn wind upon the leaves , which to our sense may have a pleasant poignancy , yet which foretells the approach of the sad ...
... critic of life , breathing through the glades of Arden , the melancholy of Jaques , is like the first touch of autumn wind upon the leaves , which to our sense may have a pleasant poignancy , yet which foretells the approach of the sad ...
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... critics either altogether reject the play , upon the ground that in style and subject it is unlike any other work of our dramatist , or accept as true the tradition of Ravenscroft , that it was touched by Shak- spere , and no more ...
... critics either altogether reject the play , upon the ground that in style and subject it is unlike any other work of our dramatist , or accept as true the tradition of Ravenscroft , that it was touched by Shak- spere , and no more ...
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... critics in attributing to Shakspere the scene ( Act II . Sc . iv . ) in which the white and red roses are plucked as emblems of the rival parties in the state ; perhaps the scene of the wooing of Margaret by Suffolk ( Act V. Sc . iii ...
... critics in attributing to Shakspere the scene ( Act II . Sc . iv . ) in which the white and red roses are plucked as emblems of the rival parties in the state ; perhaps the scene of the wooing of Margaret by Suffolk ( Act V. Sc . iii ...
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