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Page xviii
... story , Mr. Fleay goes on , " the old Chronicle History ' could not have been described as ' Tragical ' in 1605 had not a tragedy on the subject been ' lately acted , ' nor could the tragedy have been any other than Shakespeare's ...
... story , Mr. Fleay goes on , " the old Chronicle History ' could not have been described as ' Tragical ' in 1605 had not a tragedy on the subject been ' lately acted , ' nor could the tragedy have been any other than Shakespeare's ...
Page xxiv
... story of the Moor and Desdemona ; in Romeo and Juliet he confines himself to the fortunes of that " pair of star- cross'd lovers " ; but in King Lear Shakespeare has introduced , and blended with the original story , another theme of ...
... story of the Moor and Desdemona ; in Romeo and Juliet he confines himself to the fortunes of that " pair of star- cross'd lovers " ; but in King Lear Shakespeare has introduced , and blended with the original story , another theme of ...
Page xxv
... story , known to us , very closely , but altered it in many ways to suit his purpose . In the first place , he alone gives it a tragic ending . In all the earlier accounts known to us , King Leir is restored in the end to his dominions ...
... story , known to us , very closely , but altered it in many ways to suit his purpose . In the first place , he alone gives it a tragic ending . In all the earlier accounts known to us , King Leir is restored in the end to his dominions ...
Page xxvi
... story ? may , indeed , have been related to him in his childhood or youth , but as it is told in Holinshed's Chronicles - that favourite volume of his , which supplied him with many a plot - he is sure to have read it there . It stands ...
... story ? may , indeed , have been related to him in his childhood or youth , but as it is told in Holinshed's Chronicles - that favourite volume of his , which supplied him with many a plot - he is sure to have read it there . It stands ...
Page xxix
... story . Another rendering of the old story , which Shake- speare had evidently read with care , and which he appears to follow in some particulars , is that given in Spenser's Faerie Queene ( Book II . canto 10 , stanzas xxvii . - xxxii ...
... story . Another rendering of the old story , which Shake- speare had evidently read with care , and which he appears to follow in some particulars , is that given in Spenser's Faerie Queene ( Book II . canto 10 , stanzas xxvii . - xxxii ...
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