Studies of Shakspere: Forming a Companion Volume to the National Edition of the Pictorial ShakspereCharles Knight, 1851 - 560 pages |
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... Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best 1598 - twelve plays which we would not ex- for comedy and tragedy among the Latins , change for all the contemporary dramatic so Shakespeare , among the English , is the literature produced in ...
... Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best 1598 - twelve plays which we would not ex- for comedy and tragedy among the Latins , change for all the contemporary dramatic so Shakespeare , among the English , is the literature produced in ...
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... Plautus , published in 1595 ; the play has no resemblance , beyond the general character of the incidents , to this transla- tion , —and therefore Ritson pronounces that it is not entirely Shakspere's work ; -and , while Malone denies ...
... Plautus , published in 1595 ; the play has no resemblance , beyond the general character of the incidents , to this transla- tion , —and therefore Ritson pronounces that it is not entirely Shakspere's work ; -and , while Malone denies ...
Page 112
... [ PLAUTUS . ] " Mercator Siculus , cui erant gemini filii ; Ei , surrepto altero , mors obtigit . Nomen surreptitii illi indit qui domi est Avus paternus , facit Menæchmum Sosiclem . Et is germanum , postquam adolevit , quæritat Circum ...
... [ PLAUTUS . ] " Mercator Siculus , cui erant gemini filii ; Ei , surrepto altero , mors obtigit . Nomen surreptitii illi indit qui domi est Avus paternus , facit Menæchmum Sosiclem . Et is germanum , postquam adolevit , quæritat Circum ...
Page 113
... Plautus . But surely the " jugglers , " sorcerers , ' witches , " of Shakspere are not these . With his exquisite judgment , he gave Ephesus more characteristic " liberties of sin . " The cook of the courtezan in Plautus first mis ...
... Plautus . But surely the " jugglers , " sorcerers , ' witches , " of Shakspere are not these . With his exquisite judgment , he gave Ephesus more characteristic " liberties of sin . " The cook of the courtezan in Plautus first mis ...
Page 114
... Plautus , and is not an improvement on it . " We think he is wrong in both assertions . We have noticed some of the anachronisms which the translator of Plautus , in Shak- | into his performance . W. W. did not do this ignorantly ; for ...
... Plautus , and is not an improvement on it . " We think he is wrong in both assertions . We have noticed some of the anachronisms which the translator of Plautus , in Shak- | into his performance . W. W. did not do this ignorantly ; for ...
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