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STÉEVENS . Perhaps the songs on which the play with the same title was founded . It may , however , be the play itself . It was not uncommon to divide one dramatick piece , though designed for a single exhibition , into two parts .
STÉEVENS . Perhaps the songs on which the play with the same title was founded . It may , however , be the play itself . It was not uncommon to divide one dramatick piece , though designed for a single exhibition , into two parts .
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... to make immediate entries of their new pieces , as a security against the encroachments of their rivals , who always considered themselves as justified in the exhibition of such drarnas as had been enfranchised by the press .
... to make immediate entries of their new pieces , as a security against the encroachments of their rivals , who always considered themselves as justified in the exhibition of such drarnas as had been enfranchised by the press .
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... which perhaps had been acted on different stages , and of consequence afforded the players at the several houses where they were exhibited , an easy opportunity of making out copies from the separate parts transcribed for their use ...
... which perhaps had been acted on different stages , and of consequence afforded the players at the several houses where they were exhibited , an easy opportunity of making out copies from the separate parts transcribed for their use ...
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... it may be reasonably presumed , that he had exhibited more than one comedy on the stage before the end of the year 1592 , perhaps Love's Labour's Lost in a less perfect ftate than it now appears in , and A Midsummer Night's Dream .
... it may be reasonably presumed , that he had exhibited more than one comedy on the stage before the end of the year 1592 , perhaps Love's Labour's Lost in a less perfect ftate than it now appears in , and A Midsummer Night's Dream .
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Not being Shakspeare's play , ( as I conceive , ) at . whatever time it might have been first exhibited , it does not interfere with the supposition already ftated , that he had not produced any dramatick piece before 1590 .
Not being Shakspeare's play , ( as I conceive , ) at . whatever time it might have been first exhibited , it does not interfere with the supposition already ftated , that he had not produced any dramatick piece before 1590 .
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| Title | The Plays of William Shakspeare, Volume 2 The Plays of William Shakspeare, William Shakespeare |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Publisher | Printed and fold by J.J. Tourneisen, 1799 |
| Original from | Lyon Public Library |
| Digitized | 8 Sep 2011 |
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