Shakspere and His PredecessorsC. Scribner's sons, 1988 - 555 pages |
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Page 17
... opening of the seventeenth century , and thus overlapped with the production of Hamlet . Hence it is something worthier than love of picturesque anec- dote that prompts us to accept the statement of biographers , supported by apparent ...
... opening of the seventeenth century , and thus overlapped with the production of Hamlet . Hence it is something worthier than love of picturesque anec- dote that prompts us to accept the statement of biographers , supported by apparent ...
Page 78
... opening scene of the play the wooers one by one make their appeal , and Angelica , passing over mighty potentates like the Soldan of Egypt and the King of the Isles , fixes her choice on Orlando , the County Palatine . The foreshadowing ...
... opening scene of the play the wooers one by one make their appeal , and Angelica , passing over mighty potentates like the Soldan of Egypt and the King of the Isles , fixes her choice on Orlando , the County Palatine . The foreshadowing ...
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... opening scene of the play mysterious agents hover through the air , sinister in aspect and in speech . These witches or weird sisters are the embodiment , in visible form , of the malignant influences in nature which are ever on the ...
... opening scene of the play mysterious agents hover through the air , sinister in aspect and in speech . These witches or weird sisters are the embodiment , in visible form , of the malignant influences in nature which are ever on the ...
Contents
THE EARLY RENAISSANCE DRAMA | 19 |
KYD LYLY and Peele | 62 |
ROBERT GREENE | 77 |
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