Studies of Shakspere: Forming a Companion Volume to the National Edition of the Pictorial ShakspereCharles Knight, 1851 - 560 pages |
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... Tragedy of Richard III . ' is the only other History , of which we possess a printed copy , that we can assign to the period before the first real dramatists . This old play is a work of higher pretension than ' The Famous Victories ...
... Tragedy of Richard III . ' is the only other History , of which we possess a printed copy , that we can assign to the period before the first real dramatists . This old play is a work of higher pretension than ' The Famous Victories ...
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... Tragedy or Comedy . The Legendary History of England was seized upon at an early period , as possess- ing dramatic capabilities ; and in ' Ferrex and Porrex , ' ( sometimes called ' GORBODUC , ' ) we have the work of two poetical minds ...
... Tragedy or Comedy . The Legendary History of England was seized upon at an early period , as possess- ing dramatic capabilities ; and in ' Ferrex and Porrex , ' ( sometimes called ' GORBODUC , ' ) we have the work of two poetical minds ...
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... tragedy was a favourite with the early poets . We find it in ' The Mirror of Magistrates , ' in Spenser , and in Drayton ; occupying seven stanzas of ' The Faery Queen ' ( Book II . , Canto 10 ) , and fifty lines of the Poly - Olbion ...
... tragedy was a favourite with the early poets . We find it in ' The Mirror of Magistrates , ' in Spenser , and in Drayton ; occupying seven stanzas of ' The Faery Queen ' ( Book II . , Canto 10 ) , and fifty lines of the Poly - Olbion ...
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... tragedy , " The Wounds of Civil War : lively set forth in the true Tragedies of Marius and Sylla . ' He had become a writer for the stage before the real power of dramatic blank verse had been adequately conceived . His lines pos- sess ...
... tragedy , " The Wounds of Civil War : lively set forth in the true Tragedies of Marius and Sylla . ' He had become a writer for the stage before the real power of dramatic blank verse had been adequately conceived . His lines pos- sess ...
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... Tragedies . Troilus and Cressida . The Tragedy of Coriolanus . Titus Andronicus . Romeo and Juliet . Timon of Athens . The Life and Death of Julius Cæsar . The Tragedy of Macbeth . The Tragedy of Hamlet . King Lear . Othello , the Moor ...
... Tragedies . Troilus and Cressida . The Tragedy of Coriolanus . Titus Andronicus . Romeo and Juliet . Timon of Athens . The Life and Death of Julius Cæsar . The Tragedy of Macbeth . The Tragedy of Hamlet . King Lear . Othello , the Moor ...
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