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Page x
... called , Epicone or the silent woman by BEN : JOHNSON vjd . The second entry is ibid . 3. 498. [ 226 v ] : Walter . Burre | See p . 444 . 28 Septembris ( 1612 ) . Entred for his copie by assignment from John Browne and consent of the ...
... called , Epicone or the silent woman by BEN : JOHNSON vjd . The second entry is ibid . 3. 498. [ 226 v ] : Walter . Burre | See p . 444 . 28 Septembris ( 1612 ) . Entred for his copie by assignment from John Browne and consent of the ...
Page xiv
... called a reprint of the First Folio , with variants of all other important editions . 4 The Quarto of 1620 is a clearly - printed little volume , containing : Title , one leaf ( verso blank ) . Dedication and Persons of the Play , one ...
... called a reprint of the First Folio , with variants of all other important editions . 4 The Quarto of 1620 is a clearly - printed little volume , containing : Title , one leaf ( verso blank ) . Dedication and Persons of the Play , one ...
Page xxi
... called in the Journal , Treuwitz , and in the Schriften , Gutwitz ; some speeches translated in the first are omitted in the second , and some omitted in the first are left in the second . The Schriften reprint is freer and more ...
... called in the Journal , Treuwitz , and in the Schriften , Gutwitz ; some speeches translated in the first are omitted in the second , and some omitted in the first are left in the second . The Schriften reprint is freer and more ...
Page xxxv
... called Twelfth Night or what you will , much like the comedy of errors , or Menechmis in Plautus , but most like and neere to that Italian called Inganni . A good practise in it to make the steward believe his lady widdowe was in love ...
... called Twelfth Night or what you will , much like the comedy of errors , or Menechmis in Plautus , but most like and neere to that Italian called Inganni . A good practise in it to make the steward believe his lady widdowe was in love ...
Page xliii
... called , in the Poetaster , and in the Alchemist has Mammon promise Dol that he will make love out of Ovid - which is exactly what True - wit attempts to teach Dauphine to do in Epicone . At this place we might point to a character ...
... called , in the Poetaster , and in the Alchemist has Mammon promise Dol that he will make love out of Ovid - which is exactly what True - wit attempts to teach Dauphine to do in Epicone . At this place we might point to a character ...
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