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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Page 48
... Theobald and Sir Thomas Hanmer in opposition to it ; who , although they concerned themselves only in the first of these three parts of criticism , the restoring the text , ( without any concep- tion of the second , or venturing even to ...
... Theobald and Sir Thomas Hanmer in opposition to it ; who , although they concerned themselves only in the first of these three parts of criticism , the restoring the text , ( without any concep- tion of the second , or venturing even to ...
Page 178
... Theobald , at the conclusion of the preface to his first edition of Shakspeare , asserts , that exclusive of the dramas of Ben Jonson , and Beaumont and Fletcher , he had read " above 800 of old English plays . " He omitted this ...
... Theobald , at the conclusion of the preface to his first edition of Shakspeare , asserts , that exclusive of the dramas of Ben Jonson , and Beaumont and Fletcher , he had read " above 800 of old English plays . " He omitted this ...
Page 438
... THEOBALD . Susanna , who was our poet's eldest child , was baptized , May 26 , 1583. Shakspeare therefore , having been born in April 1564 , was nineteen the month preceding her birth . Mr. Theobald was mistaken in supposing that a ...
... THEOBALD . Susanna , who was our poet's eldest child , was baptized , May 26 , 1583. Shakspeare therefore , having been born in April 1564 , was nineteen the month preceding her birth . Mr. Theobald was mistaken in supposing that a ...
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