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Here we perceive that Fate , the old post - horse of tragedy , has been saddled to
expedite intelligence which was meant to be delayed till the necessary moment
of its disclosure . Nay , further : the prompter's book being thus corrupted , on the
...
Here we perceive that Fate , the old post - horse of tragedy , has been saddled to
expedite intelligence which was meant to be delayed till the necessary moment
of its disclosure . Nay , further : the prompter's book being thus corrupted , on the
...
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Pericles , Prince of Tyre , 1609 , Sir John Oldcastle , 1600 , The London Prodigal ,
1605 , and The Yorkshire Tragedy , 1608 ; the three others which they inserted ,
Low trine , i595 , Lord Cromwell , 1602 , and The Puritan , 1607 , having been ...
Pericles , Prince of Tyre , 1609 , Sir John Oldcastle , 1600 , The London Prodigal ,
1605 , and The Yorkshire Tragedy , 1608 ; the three others which they inserted ,
Low trine , i595 , Lord Cromwell , 1602 , and The Puritan , 1607 , having been ...
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1 the severer criticks among us cannot bear it , yet the generality of our
audiences seems to be better pleased with it than with an exact tragedy . The
Merry Wives of Windsor , The Comedy of Errors , and The Taming of a Shrew ,
are all pure ...
1 the severer criticks among us cannot bear it , yet the generality of our
audiences seems to be better pleased with it than with an exact tragedy . The
Merry Wives of Windsor , The Comedy of Errors , and The Taming of a Shrew ,
are all pure ...
Page 59
But of the two last of these plays I shall have occasion to take notice , among the
tragedies of Mr. Shakspeare . If one undertook to examine the greatest part of
these by those rules which are established by Aristotle , and taken from the
model ...
But of the two last of these plays I shall have occasion to take notice , among the
tragedies of Mr. Shakspeare . If one undertook to examine the greatest part of
these by those rules which are established by Aristotle , and taken from the
model ...
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There is in the first part of the Greek tragedy fomething very moving in the grief of
Electra ; but , as Mr. Dacier has observed , there is something very unnatural and
shocking in the manners he has given that Princess and Orestes in the latter ...
There is in the first part of the Greek tragedy fomething very moving in the grief of
Electra ; but , as Mr. Dacier has observed , there is something very unnatural and
shocking in the manners he has given that Princess and Orestes in the latter ...
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| Title | The Plays of William Shakspeare, Volume 1 The Plays of William Shakspeare, William Shakespeare |
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| Illustrated by | Samuel Johnson (écrivain) |
| Publisher | Printed and fold by J.J. Tourneisen, 1900 |
| Original from | Lyon Public Library |
| Digitized | 8 Sep 2011 |
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