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... given to A Midsummer Night's Dream , produced privately the following year , 1594 , for the marriage of Southampton's mother to Sir Thomas Heneage , Vice - Chamberlain of Queen Elizabeth's Household . The elderly couple , Theseus and ...
... given to A Midsummer Night's Dream , produced privately the following year , 1594 , for the marriage of Southampton's mother to Sir Thomas Heneage , Vice - Chamberlain of Queen Elizabeth's Household . The elderly couple , Theseus and ...
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... given the discredit for prompting Henry V to embark on his French war - for which there is no historical warrant . Wolsey is given unfriendly depiction - until his downfall , then the floodgates open . In fact , Shakespeare's was the ...
... given the discredit for prompting Henry V to embark on his French war - for which there is no historical warrant . Wolsey is given unfriendly depiction - until his downfall , then the floodgates open . In fact , Shakespeare's was the ...
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... given a further run , by royal command , in The Merry Wives of Windsor . This bourgeois farce is the most purely amusing thing Shakespeare ever wrote - straight out of small- town life , as it might be Stratford , though Windsor makes a ...
... given a further run , by royal command , in The Merry Wives of Windsor . This bourgeois farce is the most purely amusing thing Shakespeare ever wrote - straight out of small- town life , as it might be Stratford , though Windsor makes a ...
Contents
PREFACE | 11 |
Shakespeares Education I | 11 |
Shakespeare and the Classics | 14 |
Copyright | |
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Shakespearean Scholarship: A Guide for Actors and Students Leslie O'Dell No preview available - 2002 |