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 14 |
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STEEVENS . Again , in Hall's Chronicle , Henry VI . fol . 69 : this noble prince , for his demerits called the good duke of Gloucester — . ” MALONE . - 66 ――― More than in singularity , he goes Upon his present SC . I. 23 CORIOLANUS .
STEEVENS . Again , in Hall's Chronicle , Henry VI . fol . 69 : this noble prince , for his demerits called the good duke of Gloucester — . ” MALONE . - 66 ――― More than in singularity , he goes Upon his present SC . I. 23 CORIOLANUS .
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Shakspeare had probably read or heard in his youth that Balthazar de Gerrard , who assassinated William Prince of Orange in 1584 , was torn to pieces by wild horses ; as Nicholas de Salvedo had been not long before , for conspiring to ...
Shakspeare had probably read or heard in his youth that Balthazar de Gerrard , who assassinated William Prince of Orange in 1584 , was torn to pieces by wild horses ; as Nicholas de Salvedo had been not long before , for conspiring to ...
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66 - 66 " When thunder speaks , which is the voice of Jove , Though I do reverence , yet I hide me not ; " And shall a stranger prince have leave to brag " Unto a foreign nation that he made " " Philaster hide himself . " BOSWELL .
66 - 66 " When thunder speaks , which is the voice of Jove , Though I do reverence , yet I hide me not ; " And shall a stranger prince have leave to brag " Unto a foreign nation that he made " " Philaster hide himself . " BOSWELL .
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I suppose I need not name , Pericles , Prince of Tyre , [ and here , by - the - by , Dryden expressly names Pericles as our author's production , ] nor the historical plays of Shakspeare ; besides many of the rest , as The Winter's Tale ...
I suppose I need not name , Pericles , Prince of Tyre , [ and here , by - the - by , Dryden expressly names Pericles as our author's production , ] nor the historical plays of Shakspeare ; besides many of the rest , as The Winter's Tale ...
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Mamillius , the young Prince , an unnecessary character , dies in his infancy ; but it confirms the allusion , as Queen Anne , before Elizabeth , bore a still - born son . But the most striking passage , and which had nothing to do in ...
Mamillius , the young Prince , an unnecessary character , dies in his infancy ; but it confirms the allusion , as Queen Anne , before Elizabeth , bore a still - born son . But the most striking passage , and which had nothing to do in ...
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