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Æge Ægeon Antipholus of Ephesus Antipholus of Syracuse brother Capell conj chain cloake Collier comedies Craig didst dine dinner door doth DROMIO of Ephesus Dromio of Syracuse Duke Dyce Enter ANTIPHOLUS Epidamnum Erot Erotium Errors Exeunt Exit fairy fetch Folio fool Gentlemen of Verona gold hair Hanmer hast hath Henry Henry IV Henry VI husband Keightley Love's Labour's Lost Luciana Malone master meaning Menaecmi Menechmus Merchant of Venice Merry Wives Mess Messenio Midsummer-Night's Dream mistress never Othello passage Peniculus Plautus play Pope pray quibble reading refers Richard III Romeo and Juliet rope's end Rowe says SCENE sense Shakespeare ship stale Steevens quotes Syracusian tell thee Theobald thou art Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Twelfth Night villain Walker conj wife Wives of Windsor word ΙΟ
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Page xiv - As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for comedy and tragedy among the Latines, so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage...
Page 34 - ... is this the fine of his fines, and the recovery of his recoveries, to have his fine pate full of fine dirt? will his vouchers vouch him no more of his purchases, and double ones too, than the length and breadth of a pair of indentures ? The very conveyances of his lands will hardly lie in this box; and must the inheritor himself have no more, ha?
Page 93 - He understood the speech of birds As well as they themselves do words ; Could tell what subtlest parrots mean, That speak and think contrary clean ; What member 'tis of whom they talk When they cry ' Rope,' and
Page xiii - The author is at home in his subject, and presents his views in an almost singularly clear and satisfactory manner. . . . The volume is a valuable contribution to one of the most difficult, and at the same time one of the most important subjects of investigation at the present day.
Page xxxii - THE myriad-minded man, our, and all men's, Shakspeare, has in this piece presented us with a legitimate farce in exactest consonance with the philosophical principles and character of farce, as distinguished from comedy and from entertainments.