Shakspere and His PredecessorsC. Scribner's sons, 1988 - 555 pages |
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... English play which employs the device , so often since put to brilliant use , of making the action of the drama turn upon the fortunes of an inanimate property . In the same year as Gammer Gurton's Needle was performed at Christ's ...
... English play which employs the device , so often since put to brilliant use , of making the action of the drama turn upon the fortunes of an inanimate property . In the same year as Gammer Gurton's Needle was performed at Christ's ...
Page 87
... English traditions , English virtues , and English familiar scenes . Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay and George - a - Greene set before us pictures of country life as natural and attractive as any in Love's Labour's Lost or The Merry Wives ...
... English traditions , English virtues , and English familiar scenes . Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay and George - a - Greene set before us pictures of country life as natural and attractive as any in Love's Labour's Lost or The Merry Wives ...
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... English play at dice . The poor condemned English , Like sacrifices , by their watchful fires Sit patiently , and inly ruminate The morning's danger ... O ! now , who will behold The royal captain of this ruined band Walking from watch ...
... English play at dice . The poor condemned English , Like sacrifices , by their watchful fires Sit patiently , and inly ruminate The morning's danger ... O ! now , who will behold The royal captain of this ruined band Walking from watch ...
Contents
THE EARLY RENAISSANCE DRAMA | 19 |
KYD LYLY and Peele | 62 |
ROBERT GREENE | 77 |
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