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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... character in Shakspeare is as much an individual , as those in life itself : it is as impossible to find any two alike ; and such as from their relation or affi- nity in any respect appear most to be twins , will , upon comparison , be ...
... character in Shakspeare is as much an individual , as those in life itself : it is as impossible to find any two alike ; and such as from their relation or affi- nity in any respect appear most to be twins , will , upon comparison , be ...
Page 19
... character ! If we look into his characters , and how they are furnished and proportioned to the employment he cuts out for them , how are we taken up with the mastery of his portraits ! What draughts of nature ! what variety of ...
... character ! If we look into his characters , and how they are furnished and proportioned to the employment he cuts out for them , how are we taken up with the mastery of his portraits ! What draughts of nature ! what variety of ...
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... characters , every principal out- line in short being the same in both draughts ; so that what we shall have ... character given them sustain'd uniformly through- out ; the enormous Richard's particularly , which in the third of ...
... characters , every principal out- line in short being the same in both draughts ; so that what we shall have ... character given them sustain'd uniformly through- out ; the enormous Richard's particularly , which in the third of ...
Contents
ROMEO AND JULIET | 12 |
AS YOU LIKE | 83 |
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING | 121 |
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