A History of English LiteratureHardin Craig Oxford University Press, 1950 - 697 pages |
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... Shakespeare belonged . It was not a proprietary but a joint stock company , whose shares were divided among a group of the principal actors , of whom Shakespeare was one . The Burbages held the largest number of shares . For this ...
... Shakespeare belonged . It was not a proprietary but a joint stock company , whose shares were divided among a group of the principal actors , of whom Shakespeare was one . The Burbages held the largest number of shares . For this ...
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... Shakespeare by his contemporaries , outstand- ing among which is an enthusiastic estimate of Shakespeare as a poet and drama- tist by Francis Meres in Palladis Tamia , or Wit's Treasury ( 1598 ) , with the mention of the poems and ...
... Shakespeare by his contemporaries , outstand- ing among which is an enthusiastic estimate of Shakespeare as a poet and drama- tist by Francis Meres in Palladis Tamia , or Wit's Treasury ( 1598 ) , with the mention of the poems and ...
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... Shakespeare , ed . H. H. Furness et al . , Philadelphia , 1871- ( in prog- ress ) ; The Oxford Shakespeare , ed . W. J. Craig et al . , 1891- ; Shakespeare's Sonnets , ed . C. F. Tucker Brooke , 1936 ; The Tudor Shakespeare , ed . W. A. ...
... Shakespeare , ed . H. H. Furness et al . , Philadelphia , 1871- ( in prog- ress ) ; The Oxford Shakespeare , ed . W. J. Craig et al . , 1891- ; Shakespeare's Sonnets , ed . C. F. Tucker Brooke , 1936 ; The Tudor Shakespeare , ed . W. A. ...
Contents
THE LITERATURE OF THE OLD ENGLISH PERIOD 1 The Temper of the Middle Ages | 3 |
The AngloSaxons | 5 |
Some Fundamental Facts Relating to Old English Literature | 8 |
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