TragediesFrowde, 1912 - 1315 pages |
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Page 7
... Roman de Troie of his predecessor . It was again modified by Boccaccio in his Filostrato , which supplied Chaucer with the basis of his splendid inven- tion . For the love - story Shakespeare is indebted to Chaucer , but he alters the ...
... Roman de Troie of his predecessor . It was again modified by Boccaccio in his Filostrato , which supplied Chaucer with the basis of his splendid inven- tion . For the love - story Shakespeare is indebted to Chaucer , but he alters the ...
Page 115
... Roman people , is perhaps derived in some of its phrasing from Camden's Remaines concerning Britaine , 1605 , helps us little , for the internal evidence clearly points to a later date . That internal evidence is sufficient to incline ...
... Roman people , is perhaps derived in some of its phrasing from Camden's Remaines concerning Britaine , 1605 , helps us little , for the internal evidence clearly points to a later date . That internal evidence is sufficient to incline ...
Page 116
... Roman Plays and their Background , 1910. A question has , indeed , been raised as to whether the background here may not be , in part at least , not Rome only , but England of the reign of James I. ' Nothing could move Shakespeare more ...
... Roman Plays and their Background , 1910. A question has , indeed , been raised as to whether the background here may not be , in part at least , not Rome only , but England of the reign of James I. ' Nothing could move Shakespeare more ...
Page 118
... Roman matron for the occasion becomes mere superintending motherhood . All the characters of the play , if we set aside Adrian and Nicanor , are to be found in Plutarch ; but , as Professor MacCallum remarks , Plutarch's persons ...
... Roman matron for the occasion becomes mere superintending motherhood . All the characters of the play , if we set aside Adrian and Nicanor , are to be found in Plutarch ; but , as Professor MacCallum remarks , Plutarch's persons ...
Page 120
... Roman people . The plebeians have the infirmities of their class when acting en masse or under the guidance of demagogic leaders , but they are not individually without good feeling , and even in their unreason is a certain modicum of ...
... Roman people . The plebeians have the infirmities of their class when acting en masse or under the guidance of demagogic leaders , but they are not individually without good feeling , and even in their unreason is a certain modicum of ...
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