Shakspere and His PredecessorsC. Scribner's sons, 1988 - 555 pages |
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... story most akin to that used by Shakspere . Here the usurer is a Jew of Venice ; it is a lady from Belmont who devises the plan for avoiding the forfeiture , and the incident of the ring is introduced . A ballad of uncertain date ...
... story most akin to that used by Shakspere . Here the usurer is a Jew of Venice ; it is a lady from Belmont who devises the plan for avoiding the forfeiture , and the incident of the ring is introduced . A ballad of uncertain date ...
Page 315
... story ' . He turned the shadowy figures of Italian romance into living consistent types , though still true to their origin in their luxuriant fancy and sensibility ; and he added . contrasting group of actors of coarser grain , with ...
... story ' . He turned the shadowy figures of Italian romance into living consistent types , though still true to their origin in their luxuriant fancy and sensibility ; and he added . contrasting group of actors of coarser grain , with ...
Page 519
... story less than he does in The Winter's Tale , where more drastic changes fail to produce an equally successful result . In Greene's novel Egistus , King of Sicily , visits Pandosto , King of Bohemia , who is inflamed with a sudden ...
... story less than he does in The Winter's Tale , where more drastic changes fail to produce an equally successful result . In Greene's novel Egistus , King of Sicily , visits Pandosto , King of Bohemia , who is inflamed with a sudden ...
Contents
THE EARLY RENAISSANCE DRAMA | 19 |
KYD LYLY and Peele | 62 |
ROBERT GREENE | 77 |
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