Introduction to ShakespeareBlackie & Son, 1893 - 136 Seiten |
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... volumes , neatly bound in cloth . The text of each play , which will be reasonably expurgated , will be accompanied by an In- troduction , Notes , and a Glossary . The chief characteristic of this edition will be the prominence given to ...
... volumes , neatly bound in cloth . The text of each play , which will be reasonably expurgated , will be accompanied by an In- troduction , Notes , and a Glossary . The chief characteristic of this edition will be the prominence given to ...
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... from Burbage to Macready . If , in this little volume , there be anything of useful guidance or suggestion , I desire to connect it with the memory of my wife . E. D. 1 CONTENTS . Page INTRODUCTION TO SHAKESPEARE : 1. Shakespeare's.
... from Burbage to Macready . If , in this little volume , there be anything of useful guidance or suggestion , I desire to connect it with the memory of my wife . E. D. 1 CONTENTS . Page INTRODUCTION TO SHAKESPEARE : 1. Shakespeare's.
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... volume , addressing William Her- bert and his brother Philip , Earl of Montgomery , refer to the great favour which these patrons of art had shown both to the author of the plays and the plays themselves . When his Majesty's long ...
... volume , addressing William Her- bert and his brother Philip , Earl of Montgomery , refer to the great favour which these patrons of art had shown both to the author of the plays and the plays themselves . When his Majesty's long ...
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... volume named Palladis Tamia by Francis Meres , a Master of Arts of both univer- sities . The chapter was written in the summer of 1598 , and it bears remarkable testimony to the high rank held by Shakespeare both as a narrative and a ...
... volume named Palladis Tamia by Francis Meres , a Master of Arts of both univer- sities . The chapter was written in the summer of 1598 , and it bears remarkable testimony to the high rank held by Shakespeare both as a narrative and a ...
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... volume made up of pieces of verse , many of which are cer- tainly not by Shakespeare , though his name is placed upon the fraudulent title - page . A theory most skilfully worked out by Mr. Tyler , with some assistance from Mr. Harrison ...
... volume made up of pieces of verse , many of which are cer- tainly not by Shakespeare , though his name is placed upon the fraudulent title - page . A theory most skilfully worked out by Mr. Tyler , with some assistance from Mr. Harrison ...
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Seite 64 - This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea...
Seite 10 - What years, i' faith? Vio. About your years, my lord. DUKE. Too old, by heaven : let still the woman take An elder than herself : so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart...
Seite 31 - Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances. Shakespeare, with the English man of war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Seite 19 - I am as sorry as if the original fault had been my fault, because myself have seen his demeanour no less civil than he excellent in the quality he professes: besides, divers of worship have reported his uprightness of dealing which argues his honesty, and his facetious grace in writing, that approves his art.
Seite 136 - The First part of the Contention betwixt the two famous Houses of Yorke and Lancaster...
Seite 132 - Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room: Thou are a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give.
Seite 97 - This therefore is the praise of Shakespeare, that his drama is the mirror of life; that he who has mazed his imagination, in following the phantoms which other writers raise up before him, may here be cured of his delirious ecstacies, by reading human sentiments in human language, by scenes from which a hermit may estimate the transactions of the world, and a confessor predict the progress of the passions.
Seite 18 - Yes, trust them not: for there is an upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tygers heart wrapt in a Players hide, supposes he is as well able to bumbast out a blanke verse as the best of you: and being an absolute Johannes fac totum, is in his owne conceit the onely Shakescene in a countrie.
Seite 129 - We have but collected them, and done an office to the dead, to procure his orphans guardians; without ambition either of self-profit or fame ; only to keep the memory of so worthy a friend and fellow alive as was our Shakespeare, by humble ofier of his plays to your most noble patronage.
Seite 74 - But there seems to have been a period of Shakspeare's life when his heart was ill at ease, and ill content with the world or his own conscience ; the memory of hours misspent, the pang of affection mis-placed or unrequited, the experience of man's worser nature, which intercourse with ill-chosen...