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 13
... kind of master of the revels called Philostrate ; all whose part is given to an- other character ( that of Egeus ) in the subsequent editions : so also in Hamlet and King Lear . This too makes it pro- bable that the prompter's books ...
... kind of master of the revels called Philostrate ; all whose part is given to an- other character ( that of Egeus ) in the subsequent editions : so also in Hamlet and King Lear . This too makes it pro- bable that the prompter's books ...
Page 34
... kind . His genuine text is for the most part religiously adhered to , and the numerous faults and blemishes , purely his own , are left as they were found . Nothing is altered but what by the clearest rea- soning can be proved a ...
... kind . His genuine text is for the most part religiously adhered to , and the numerous faults and blemishes , purely his own , are left as they were found . Nothing is altered but what by the clearest rea- soning can be proved a ...
Page 53
... kind of writers as Rymer , Gildon , Dennis , and Óldmixon , have only gathered and chewed the husks : nor on the other hand is it to be formed on the plan of those crude and superficial judgments , on books and things , with which a ...
... kind of writers as Rymer , Gildon , Dennis , and Óldmixon , have only gathered and chewed the husks : nor on the other hand is it to be formed on the plan of those crude and superficial judgments , on books and things , with which a ...
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