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 164
... play more , and to shew him in love . This is said to be the occasion of his writing The Merry Wives of Windsor ... play . The rest of the play is , doubtless , invention : the names only of Theseus , Hippolita , and Theseus ...
... play more , and to shew him in love . This is said to be the occasion of his writing The Merry Wives of Windsor ... play . The rest of the play is , doubtless , invention : the names only of Theseus , Hippolita , and Theseus ...
Page 186
... play go off , better knaveş than they , will fall into the company . " Now , Sir , if the writer be a fellow that hath either epigram'd you , or hath had a flirt at your mistris , or hath brought either your feather , or your red beard ...
... play go off , better knaveş than they , will fall into the company . " Now , Sir , if the writer be a fellow that hath either epigram'd you , or hath had a flirt at your mistris , or hath brought either your feather , or your red beard ...
Page 356
... play on this subject ? and perhaps there were more than one before our poet's - In Pierce Penilesse , his Supplication to the Deuill , 4to . 1592 , ( which , it seems , from the Epistle to the Printer , was not in the first edi- tion ...
... play on this subject ? and perhaps there were more than one before our poet's - In Pierce Penilesse , his Supplication to the Deuill , 4to . 1592 , ( which , it seems , from the Epistle to the Printer , was not in the first edi- tion ...
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ROMEO AND JULIET | 12 |
AS YOU LIKE | 83 |
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING | 121 |
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