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Page viii
... play ( he says ) I undertook , was the Duke of Guise , as the fair- est way which the act of indemnity had then left us of setting forth the rise of the late rebel- lion , and of exposing the villanies of it the stage , to precaution ...
... play ( he says ) I undertook , was the Duke of Guise , as the fair- est way which the act of indemnity had then left us of setting forth the rise of the late rebel- lion , and of exposing the villanies of it the stage , to precaution ...
Page viii
... play . Seven years afterwards , when it was corrected and revised , that this part was not omitted nor remodelled is surprising . Constance's marriage , under the character of Fortune , has been properly reprehended as unnatural and ...
... play . Seven years afterwards , when it was corrected and revised , that this part was not omitted nor remodelled is surprising . Constance's marriage , under the character of Fortune , has been properly reprehended as unnatural and ...
Page viii
... play is composed of prose , blank verse , the rhyming heroic couplet , and the quatrain . He now assisted his friend Sir Robert Howard , * in the Indian Queen . What pro- portion of the play was written by Dryden can- not be ascertained ...
... play is composed of prose , blank verse , the rhyming heroic couplet , and the quatrain . He now assisted his friend Sir Robert Howard , * in the Indian Queen . What pro- portion of the play was written by Dryden can- not be ascertained ...
Page x
... plays , censured the opinion . 3. Dryden in Dial . on Dram . Poetry vindicated .imself . 4. Sir R. Howard in the Pref ... play , but even suggested the plot , and res- cued it from the severity of its enemies . With regard to the Annus ...
... plays , censured the opinion . 3. Dryden in Dial . on Dram . Poetry vindicated .imself . 4. Sir R. Howard in the Pref ... play , but even suggested the plot , and res- cued it from the severity of its enemies . With regard to the Annus ...
Page xi
... play which I before mentioned to have been acted in 1666 , is said by Langbaine to be founded on some adventures in the grand Cyrus , and Ibrahim , the illustrious bashaw ; indeed , Dryden admits that the foun- dation of his plot was ...
... play which I before mentioned to have been acted in 1666 , is said by Langbaine to be founded on some adventures in the grand Cyrus , and Ibrahim , the illustrious bashaw ; indeed , Dryden admits that the foun- dation of his plot was ...
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