The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators: Comprehending a Life of the Poet, and an Enlarged History of the Stage, Volume 12AMS Press, 1966 - Theater |
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... folio omitted the article , proba- bly from a mistaken notion concerning the metre ; and all the subsequent editors have adopted his alteration . Many words of two syllables are used by Shakspeare as taking up the time of only one ; as ...
... folio omitted the article , proba- bly from a mistaken notion concerning the metre ; and all the subsequent editors have adopted his alteration . Many words of two syllables are used by Shakspeare as taking up the time of only one ; as ...
Page 102
... folio ( and , I believe , through a mistake of the press , ) has - writ , which in the second folio was properly changed into -wit . Dr. Johnson , however , supposes that by writ was meant a " penned and premeditated oration . " But the ...
... folio ( and , I believe , through a mistake of the press , ) has - writ , which in the second folio was properly changed into -wit . Dr. Johnson , however , supposes that by writ was meant a " penned and premeditated oration . " But the ...
Page 403
... folio , nak'd . " Sir , I will eat no meat , I'll not drink , sir ; " If idle talk will once be necessary , [ I will not speak ; If sleep be necessary , ] " I'll not sleep neither . " The repetition of the word necessary may have ...
... folio , nak'd . " Sir , I will eat no meat , I'll not drink , sir ; " If idle talk will once be necessary , [ I will not speak ; If sleep be necessary , ] " I'll not sleep neither . " The repetition of the word necessary may have ...
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Agrippa Alexas Antony's bear blood BOSWELL Brutus CASCA Cassius CESAR CHAR Charmian CLEO Cleopatra Coriolanus Cymbeline death doth edition editors Egypt emendation Enobarbus EROS Exeunt Exit eyes fear fortune friends Fulvia give gods Hamlet hand hath hear heart honour IRAS JOHNSON Julius Cæsar King Henry King Lear Lepidus look lord Lucilius Lucius madam MALONE Mark Antony MASON means MESS Messala metre musick never night noble Octavia old copy old reading old translation passage play Plutarch poet Pompey pray Proculeius queen RITSON Roman Rome SCENE second folio sense Shakspeare Shakspeare's signifies Sir Thomas Hanmer SOLD soldier speak speech spirit stand STEEVENS suppose sword tell thee THEOBALD thing thou art thou hast thought Timon of Athens Titinius translation of Plutarch Troilus and Cressida unto WARBURTON word Ром