The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators: Comprehending a Life of the Poet, and an Enlarged History of the Stage, Volume 1AMS Press, 1966 - Theater |
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... English tongue at that time , be generally Latin , his phraseology is perfectly English ; an advantage he owed to his slender acquaintance with the Latin idiom . Whereas the other writers of his age , and such others of an older date as ...
... English tongue at that time , be generally Latin , his phraseology is perfectly English ; an advantage he owed to his slender acquaintance with the Latin idiom . Whereas the other writers of his age , and such others of an older date as ...
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... English prose , which the criticks have now to seek in Saxo Grammaticus . His English histories he took from English chronicles and English ballads ; and as the ancient writers were made known to his countrymen by versions , they ...
... English prose , which the criticks have now to seek in Saxo Grammaticus . His English histories he took from English chronicles and English ballads ; and as the ancient writers were made known to his countrymen by versions , they ...
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... English . What can be more probable , than that he who copied that , would have copied more ; but that those which were not translated were inacces- sible ? Whether he knew the modern languages is uncertain . That his plays have some ...
... English . What can be more probable , than that he who copied that , would have copied more ; but that those which were not translated were inacces- sible ? Whether he knew the modern languages is uncertain . That his plays have some ...
Contents
ROMEO AND JULIET | 12 |
AS YOU LIKE | 83 |
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING | 121 |
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