A Shakespeare PrimerAMS Press, 1971 - 224 pages |
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Page 89
... story in verse , but every evidence of style and treatment mark the play that has come down to us as Shakespeare's alone . Because the bad quarto of 1597 differs in so many respects from the good quarto of 1599 and from the Folio text ...
... story in verse , but every evidence of style and treatment mark the play that has come down to us as Shakespeare's alone . Because the bad quarto of 1597 differs in so many respects from the good quarto of 1599 and from the Folio text ...
Page 123
... story in Holin- shed's Chronicles , his chief source , and he apparently also knew the versions of the Lear story in John Higgins ' Mirror for Magistrates and in Spenser's Faerie Queene . But he dealt freely with his sources , adding a ...
... story in Holin- shed's Chronicles , his chief source , and he apparently also knew the versions of the Lear story in John Higgins ' Mirror for Magistrates and in Spenser's Faerie Queene . But he dealt freely with his sources , adding a ...
Page 128
... story of mature passion , as Romeo and Juliet is of youthful passion . Dryden's title for his adapta- tion of the story , All for Love , best suggests the theme , for it treats of Antony's loss of his kingdom and finally his life ...
... story of mature passion , as Romeo and Juliet is of youthful passion . Dryden's title for his adapta- tion of the story , All for Love , best suggests the theme , for it treats of Antony's loss of his kingdom and finally his life ...
Contents
Preface | 1 |
England in the Time of Shakespeare | 9 |
Shakespeares Works | 56 |
Copyright | |
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