The Plays of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes, Volume 2J. Johnson, 1803 |
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... drama . I know , that another of these discarded pieces , The Yorkshire Tragedy , hath been frequently called fo ; but moft certainly it was not written by our poet at all : nor indeed was it printed in his life - time . The fact on ...
... drama . I know , that another of these discarded pieces , The Yorkshire Tragedy , hath been frequently called fo ; but moft certainly it was not written by our poet at all : nor indeed was it printed in his life - time . The fact on ...
Page 78
... drama : when he left the ftage , his copies remained with his fellow - managers , Heminge and Condell ; who at their own re- tirement , about feven years after the death of their author , gave the world the edition now known by the name ...
... drama : when he left the ftage , his copies remained with his fellow - managers , Heminge and Condell ; who at their own re- tirement , about feven years after the death of their author , gave the world the edition now known by the name ...
Page 123
... drama . STEEVENS . 5 Probably the play before that of Shakspeare . STEEVENS . Surely this must have been Shakspeare's Henry V. which , as well as Much Ado about Nothing , was printed in 1600 , when this entry appears to have been made ...
... drama . STEEVENS . 5 Probably the play before that of Shakspeare . STEEVENS . Surely this must have been Shakspeare's Henry V. which , as well as Much Ado about Nothing , was printed in 1600 , when this entry appears to have been made ...
Page 136
... dramas as had been enfran- chifed by the prefs . Imperfect copies , but for thefe precautions , might have been more frequently . obtained from the repetition of hungry actors in- vited for that purpose to a tavern ; or fomething like a ...
... dramas as had been enfran- chifed by the prefs . Imperfect copies , but for thefe precautions , might have been more frequently . obtained from the repetition of hungry actors in- vited for that purpose to a tavern ; or fomething like a ...
Page 142
... drama of Greene , Peele and Marlowe ; great part of which is here preserved . He afterwards revised and improved it , as we have it in the folio . RITSON . 3. Do. William Shakspeare , T. P. XV . XVI . 1. Richard III . 1597 , 142 ANCIENT ...
... drama of Greene , Peele and Marlowe ; great part of which is here preserved . He afterwards revised and improved it , as we have it in the folio . RITSON . 3. Do. William Shakspeare , T. P. XV . XVI . 1. Richard III . 1597 , 142 ANCIENT ...
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