Studies of Shakspere: Forming a Companion Volume to the National Edition of the Pictorial ShakspereCharles Knight, 1851 - 560 pages |
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... Shak- spere had won his position in this company at the age of twenty - five by his success as a dramatic writer ; and we consider that in the same manner George Peele had preceded him , and had acquired rank and property amongst the ...
... Shak- spere had won his position in this company at the age of twenty - five by his success as a dramatic writer ; and we consider that in the same manner George Peele had preceded him , and had acquired rank and property amongst the ...
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... Shak- spere . Another of the chosen companions of Robert Greene was THOMAS NASH , who in his " beardless years " had thrown himself upon the town , having forfeited the honours which his talents would have commanded in the due course of ...
... Shak- spere . Another of the chosen companions of Robert Greene was THOMAS NASH , who in his " beardless years " had thrown himself upon the town , having forfeited the honours which his talents would have commanded in the due course of ...
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... Shak- spere among the English , with Seneca among the Latins , and says , witness , " for tragedy , ' his Richard II . , ' ' Richard III . , ' ' Henry IV . , ' | ' King John , ' ' Titus Andronicus , ' and his ' Romeo and Juliet ...
... Shak- spere among the English , with Seneca among the Latins , and says , witness , " for tragedy , ' his Richard II . , ' ' Richard III . , ' ' Henry IV . , ' | ' King John , ' ' Titus Andronicus , ' and his ' Romeo and Juliet ...
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... Shak- spere's immeasurable superiority to other dramatists is that all - penetrating power of combination by which the action of his dramas is constantly sustained ; whilst in the best pieces of his contemporaries , with rare exceptions ...
... Shak- spere's immeasurable superiority to other dramatists is that all - penetrating power of combination by which the action of his dramas is constantly sustained ; whilst in the best pieces of his contemporaries , with rare exceptions ...
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... Shak- speare's , and the rest the productions of some inglorious and forgotten play - wright . " We have no faith whatever in this very easy mode of disposing of the authorship of a doubtful play - of leaving entirely out of view the ...
... Shak- speare's , and the rest the productions of some inglorious and forgotten play - wright . " We have no faith whatever in this very easy mode of disposing of the authorship of a doubtful play - of leaving entirely out of view the ...
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