Studies of Shakspere: Forming a Companion Volume to the National Edition of the Pictorial ShakspereCharles Knight, 1851 - 560 pages |
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... poetical . We have ana- lysed this very curious comedy from the transcript in the Bodleian Library made under the direction of Malone from the only printed copy , and that an imperfect one , which is supposed to exist . In the page ...
... poetical . We have ana- lysed this very curious comedy from the transcript in the Bodleian Library made under the direction of Malone from the only printed copy , and that an imperfect one , which is supposed to exist . In the page ...
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... poetical poverty of the early stage . In the representation , the action would of course be exciting , but the dialogue which accompanies it is beyond comparison bald and meaningless . The audience was , however , compensated by ...
... poetical poverty of the early stage . In the representation , the action would of course be exciting , but the dialogue which accompanies it is beyond comparison bald and meaningless . The audience was , however , compensated by ...
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... poetical minds , labouring , however , upon false principles . This drama was acted before Queen Elizabeth as early as 1562. Thomas Sackville , Lord Buckhurst , its joint author with Thomas Norton , was a man of real genius ; yet the ...
... poetical minds , labouring , however , upon false principles . This drama was acted before Queen Elizabeth as early as 1562. Thomas Sackville , Lord Buckhurst , its joint author with Thomas Norton , was a man of real genius ; yet the ...
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... poetical language , while at the same time he shakes out all his school - learning on every possible occasion . " To reduce this very just account of the play to elementary of the play is not conducted upon drama- tic principles CHAP ...
... poetical language , while at the same time he shakes out all his school - learning on every possible occasion . " To reduce this very just account of the play to elementary of the play is not conducted upon drama- tic principles CHAP ...
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... poetical power had nothing in it of af- fectation and pretence . There is one speech of Tamburlaine which unveils the inmost mind of Tamburlaine's author . It is by far the highest passage in the play , revealing to us something nobler ...
... poetical power had nothing in it of af- fectation and pretence . There is one speech of Tamburlaine which unveils the inmost mind of Tamburlaine's author . It is by far the highest passage in the play , revealing to us something nobler ...
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