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 1AMS Press, 1966 - Theater |
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Page 90
... perhaps not one play , which , if it were now exhibited as the work of a contemporary writer , would be heard to the conclusion . I am indeed far from thinking , that his works were wrought to his own ideas of perfection ; when they ...
... perhaps not one play , which , if it were now exhibited as the work of a contemporary writer , would be heard to the conclusion . I am indeed far from thinking , that his works were wrought to his own ideas of perfection ; when they ...
Page 121
... perhaps surreptitious impressions of those plays , but whether of the two is not easy to determine : King John is certainly a first draught , and in two parts ; and so much another play , that only one line of it is retain'd in the ...
... perhaps surreptitious impressions of those plays , but whether of the two is not easy to determine : King John is certainly a first draught , and in two parts ; and so much another play , that only one line of it is retain'd in the ...
Page 369
... perhaps , be allowed the sources of Romeo , Lear , and The Merchant of Venice ; and Shakspeare himself , however unlike Bayes in other particulars , will stand convicted of having transversed the prose of Holinshed ; and , at the same ...
... perhaps , be allowed the sources of Romeo , Lear , and The Merchant of Venice ; and Shakspeare himself , however unlike Bayes in other particulars , will stand convicted of having transversed the prose of Holinshed ; and , at the same ...
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