The Shakspere Allusion-book: A Collection of Allusions to Shakspere from 1591 to 1700, Volume 1John James Munro Chatto & Windus, 1909 |
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... Falstaff plays , which , having taken the chief place in popular favour , have held it ever since , except that Hamlet temporarily declined a little in popularity during the latter half of the seventeenth century . Meres's references to ...
... Falstaff plays , which , having taken the chief place in popular favour , have held it ever since , except that Hamlet temporarily declined a little in popularity during the latter half of the seventeenth century . Meres's references to ...
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... Falstaff pieces , were most favoured by Shakspere's contemporaries . The number of allusions to such a play as Love's Labour's Lost is doubtless due to its early date and its publication in quarto . Probably The Midsummer Night's Dream ...
... Falstaff pieces , were most favoured by Shakspere's contemporaries . The number of allusions to such a play as Love's Labour's Lost is doubtless due to its early date and its publication in quarto . Probably The Midsummer Night's Dream ...
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... Falstaff were things of their own time , immediate to them , familiar . But Antony was another matter ; the great conflict in the play is one between duty and licence ; the tragedy is the fall of a great soldier ; and this conflict and ...
... Falstaff were things of their own time , immediate to them , familiar . But Antony was another matter ; the great conflict in the play is one between duty and licence ; the tragedy is the fall of a great soldier ; and this conflict and ...
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... Falstaff ; in 1605 he , with others , referred to Hamlet in Eastward Hoe ; in 1609 he mentioned Doll Tearsheet in Epicene ; and in 1614 he referred to Titus Andronicus , and the Tempest in Bartholomew Fayre . These allusions are only ...
... Falstaff ; in 1605 he , with others , referred to Hamlet in Eastward Hoe ; in 1609 he mentioned Doll Tearsheet in Epicene ; and in 1614 he referred to Titus Andronicus , and the Tempest in Bartholomew Fayre . These allusions are only ...
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... Falstaff provide about 16 and 18 per cent . respectively ; Romeo provides about 23 per cent .; and Hamlet about 43 per cent . The total number of refer- ences to Falstaff outnumber those to Romeo , but the latter is more imitated and ...
... Falstaff provide about 16 and 18 per cent . respectively ; Romeo provides about 23 per cent .; and Hamlet about 43 per cent . The total number of refer- ences to Falstaff outnumber those to Romeo , but the latter is more imitated and ...
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Page 328 - To assume a pleasing shape; yea, and perhaps Out of my weakness and my melancholy, As he is very potent with such spirits, Abuses me to damn me. I'll have grounds More relative than this: the play's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
Page 344 - I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chapfallen? Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that. Prithee, Horatio, tell me one thing. Hor. What's that, my lord? Ham. Dost thou think Alexander looked o' this fashion i
Page xxv - With the best gamesters : what things have we seen Done at the Mermaid; heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one from whence they came Had meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life...
Page 157 - I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood.
Page 190 - Take, oh take those lips away, That so sweetly were forsworn; And those eyes, the break of day, Lights that do mislead the morn; But my kisses bring again, bring again, Seals of love, but seal'd in vain. seal'd in vain.
Page 290 - Why should that name be sounded more than yours ? Write them together, yours is as fair a name; Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well; Weigh them, it is as heavy; conjure with 'em, Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar.
Page 126 - The first thing we do, let's kill all the ' lawyers. Cade. Nay, that I mean to do. Is not this a lamentable thing, that of the skin of an innocent lamb should be made parchment ? that parchment, being scribbled o'er, should undo a man...
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Page 147 - All causes shall give way ; I am in blood Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er : Strange things I have in head, that will to hand ; Which must be acted, ere they may be scann'd.
Page 368 - Think, my lord ! By heaven, he echoes me, As if there were some monster in his thought Too hideous to be shown.