| Nathan Drake - Dramatists, English - 1817 - 708 pages
...as Mr. Morgan has justly termed it. * Yet that our author, subsequent to his re-modelling The Jirst Part of the Contention, and The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of Yorke, might alter the arrangement, or slightly correct the diction of this play, is very possible,... | |
| Nathan Drake - English literature - 1838 - 744 pages
...Drimi-and-triiinpet-Thing," as Mr. Morgan has justly termed it.* Yet that our author, subsequent to his re-modelling " Yorke," might alter the arrangement, or slightly correct the diction of this play, is very possible,... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1864 - 612 pages
...substantially as they were first written, but not without occasional errors, and even sophistications. As to The First Part of the Contention, and The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York, I have little doubt that they are merely piratical depravations of The Second and Third Parts of King... | |
| Richard Grant White - Dramatists, English - 1865 - 450 pages
...no less than in style, sentiment, and character, was written after 1590, and after the production of The First Part of the Contention, and The True Tragedy of Richard, Duke of York, in which he had some lessons in dramatic versification from Shakespeare.* With regard to these dramatists... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1881 - 594 pages
...they were first written, but not without occasional errors, and even sophistications. As to The Pint Part of the Contention and The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York, I have little doubt that they are merely piratical depravations of The Second and Third Party of King... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1883 - 1048 pages
...anonymous, and that his name was nol seldom preicnded in case of plays that lie had no hand in writing. The First Part of the Contention and The True Tragedy of Richard Dnkeof York, as they were called in the old quartos, have been lately set forth with grcal care and... | |
| 1885 - 626 pages
...impossible. It appeared exactly as we have it now in that year. And whether it be, as Mr. Symonds surmises, the recast of an older play or an original production,...and realistic effect. And that in 1592 Shakspeare was most assuredly not. We are convinced, then, that Shakspeare was not the author of 'Arden of Faversham,1... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1885 - 602 pages
...impossible. It appeared exactly as we have it now in that year. And whether it be, as Mr. Symonds surmises, the recast of an older play or an original production,...and realistic effect. And that in 1592 Shakspeare was most assuredly not. We are convinced, then, that Shakspeare was not the author of ' Arden of Faversham,'... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1887 - 466 pages
...anonymous, and that his name was not seldom pretended in case of plays that he had no baud in writing. The First Part of the Contention, and The True Tragedy of Richard Duke of York, as they were called in the old quartos, have been lately set forth with great care and accuracy by... | |
| Hezekiah Lord Hosmer - Sonnets, English - 1887 - 312 pages
...Shakespeare was "almost entirely a stranger" to the first part of Henry VI. He says: '"The True History of the Contention' and 'The True Tragedy of Richard, Duke of York/ — one served as a matrix, if I may be allowed the expression, for the second part of Henry VI., and... | |
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