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... PLAYS . By W. WATKISS LLOYD . s . 6d . LECTURES ON SHAKESPEARE . BY BERNHARD TEN BRINK . Trans- ited by JULIA FRANKLIN . 35. 6d . [ Bohn's Standard Library . TURES ON THE LITERATURE OF THE AGE OF ELIZABETH ND ON CHARACTERS OF ...
... PLAYS . By W. WATKISS LLOYD . s . 6d . LECTURES ON SHAKESPEARE . BY BERNHARD TEN BRINK . Trans- ited by JULIA FRANKLIN . 35. 6d . [ Bohn's Standard Library . TURES ON THE LITERATURE OF THE AGE OF ELIZABETH ND ON CHARACTERS OF ...
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... plays and poems in the regis- ters of Stationers ' Hall . ( vi ) The poet's Will and the dedications prefixed to his poems during his life as contained in his works , and the quarto and other editions of his dramas up to the publication ...
... plays and poems in the regis- ters of Stationers ' Hall . ( vi ) The poet's Will and the dedications prefixed to his poems during his life as contained in his works , and the quarto and other editions of his dramas up to the publication ...
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... play - makers , is offensively by one or two of them taken ; and because on the dead they cannot be avenged , they wilfully forge in their conceites a living author ; and after tossing it two and fro , no remedy , but it must light on ...
... play - makers , is offensively by one or two of them taken ; and because on the dead they cannot be avenged , they wilfully forge in their conceites a living author ; and after tossing it two and fro , no remedy , but it must light on ...
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... play called Twelve Night or What you Will , much like the Com- medy of Errors or Menechmi in Plautus , but most like and neere to that in Italian called " Inganni . " A good practise in it to make the Steward beleeve his Lady widdow was ...
... play called Twelve Night or What you Will , much like the Com- medy of Errors or Menechmi in Plautus , but most like and neere to that in Italian called " Inganni . " A good practise in it to make the Steward beleeve his Lady widdow was ...
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... played by the Right honourable the Lord Chamberlaine his servants . London Printed by Thomas Creede , for Thomas Pavier , and are to be sold at his shop in Cornhill , at the signe of the Cat and Parrets , neare the Exchange . 1602 ...
... played by the Right honourable the Lord Chamberlaine his servants . London Printed by Thomas Creede , for Thomas Pavier , and are to be sold at his shop in Cornhill , at the signe of the Cat and Parrets , neare the Exchange . 1602 ...
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Page 97 - To draw no envy, Shakespeare, on thy name, Am I thus ample to thy book and fame, While I confess thy writings to be such As neither man nor muse can praise too much. 'Tis true, and all men's suffrage. But these ways Were not the paths I meant unto thy praise : For...
Page 99 - Yet must I not give nature all; thy art, My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part. For though the poet's matter nature be, His art doth give the fashion ; and, that he Who casts to write a living line, must sweat, Such as thine are, and strike the second heat Upon the Muses...
Page 93 - The Tempest. The two gentlemen of Verona. Measure for Measure. The Comedy of Errors. As you like it. All's well that ends well. Twelfe night. The winters tale. — Histories. The thirde parte of Henry the sixt. Henry the eight. — Tragedies. Coriolanus. Timon of Athens. Julius Caesar. Mackbeth. Anthonie and Cleopatra. Cymbeline.
Page 98 - Accius, him of Cordova dead, To life again, to hear thy buskin tread, And shake a stage; or, when thy socks were on, Leave thee alone for the comparison Of all that insolent Greece or haughty Rome Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come.
Page 9 - I have moderated the heat of living writers, and might have used my own discretion, especially in such a case, the author being dead, that I did not, 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.
Page 92 - Some Say good Will (which I, in sport, do sing) Had'st thou not plaid some Kingly parts in sport, Thou hadst bin a companion for a King; And, beene a King among the meaner sort.
Page 10 - The warrant I have of your honourable disposition, not the worth of my untutored lines, makes it assured of acceptance. What I have done is yours, what I have to do is yours ; being part in all I have, devoted yours. Were my worth greater my duty would show greater : meantime, as it is, it is bound to your Lordship, to whom I wish long life, still lengthened with all happiness. Your Lordship's in all duty, WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE.
Page 40 - The most excellent Historic of the Merchant of Venice. With the extreame crueltie of Shylocke the lewe towards the sayd Merchant, in cutting a iust pound of his flesh : and the obtayning of Portia by the choyse of three chests.
Page 16 - Yes, trust them not: for there is an upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tiger's heart wrapped in a Player's hide, supposes he is as well able to bombast out a blank verse as the best of you: and being an absolute Johannes fac totum, is in his own conceit the only Shake-scene in a country.
Page 93 - TO THE MOST NOBLE AND INCOMPARABLE PAIRE OF BRETHREN. WILLIAM Earle of Pembroke, &c. Lord Chamberlaine to the Kings most Excellent Majesty. and PHILIP Earle of Montgomery, &c. Gentleman of his Majesties Bed-Chamber. Both Knights of the most Noble Order of the Garter, and our singular good LORDS.