ShakspereMacmillan, 1893 - 167 pages |
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... noted , was used in Shakspere's time with special reference to the actor's profession ; so that we here possess testimony to Shakspere's worth as a man , to his excellence in his profession , and to the friends and fame he had already ...
... noted , was used in Shakspere's time with special reference to the actor's profession ; so that we here possess testimony to Shakspere's worth as a man , to his excellence in his profession , and to the friends and fame he had already ...
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... noted some fifty years later , " Shakespeare , Drayton , and Ben Jonson had a merry meeting , and , it seems , drank too hard , for Shakespeare died of a fever there contracted . " Whether this be history or myth we cannot assert . In ...
... noted some fifty years later , " Shakespeare , Drayton , and Ben Jonson had a merry meeting , and , it seems , drank too hard , for Shakespeare died of a fever there contracted . " Whether this be history or myth we cannot assert . In ...
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... noted that commonly a pause occurs before the weak final monosyllable , after which the verse , as it were , leaps forward . This structure , as has been said , gives to the verse something of the bounding life which Ulysses describes ...
... noted that commonly a pause occurs before the weak final monosyllable , after which the verse , as it were , leaps forward . This structure , as has been said , gives to the verse something of the bounding life which Ulysses describes ...
Page 72
... noted , is an indirect answer to any objections which might be brought against Shakspere's attempt to represent the fairy - world , and the world of classical romance , which could be so ill set visibly before the spectators of an ...
... noted , is an indirect answer to any objections which might be brought against Shakspere's attempt to represent the fairy - world , and the world of classical romance , which could be so ill set visibly before the spectators of an ...
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... noted , however , that Brooke speaks of having seen " the same argument lately set forth on stage probably the English stage ; it is therefore possible that Shakspere may have had before him an old English tragedy of Romeo and Juliet ...
... noted , however , that Brooke speaks of having seen " the same argument lately set forth on stage probably the English stage ; it is therefore possible that Shakspere may have had before him an old English tragedy of Romeo and Juliet ...
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