One Touch of Shakespeare: Letters of Joseph Crosby to Joseph Parker Norris, 1875-1878A collection of excerpts from 251 letters written by a shy widower and grocer in Zanesville. Ohio, who, in his time, was one of three Americans who could be called learned and eminent Shakespeareans. They are concerned with book collection, stage production, stage history, the state of the English language in Shakespeare's time, criticism, and interpretation of the text. |
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Page 13
... Folio and the Baconian theory to the Becker deathmask and the squabbling between F. J. Furnivall and his colleagues in the New Shakspere Society . In other places , however , Crosby does not write like a man of his time : he introduces ...
... Folio and the Baconian theory to the Becker deathmask and the squabbling between F. J. Furnivall and his colleagues in the New Shakspere Society . In other places , however , Crosby does not write like a man of his time : he introduces ...
Page 18
... Folio " —which he held important . Despite this conservative temper he was ready to learn and he was generous to ideas other than his own — or at least tactful where generosity was beyond him . He was abstemious without puritanism ...
... Folio " —which he held important . Despite this conservative temper he was ready to learn and he was generous to ideas other than his own — or at least tactful where generosity was beyond him . He was abstemious without puritanism ...
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... folio or quarto not yet subjected to editorial alteration . His detailed and astute command of the tradition enabled Crosby to trace claimed discoveries to their true sources . Again and again in the letters he demonstrates that the ...
... folio or quarto not yet subjected to editorial alteration . His detailed and astute command of the tradition enabled Crosby to trace claimed discoveries to their true sources . Again and again in the letters he demonstrates that the ...
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... Folio , of course , with many returns to it in passages that now vary from it quite need- lessly . But it will be neither the Cambridge , nor Dyce's , nor Collier's , nor Knight's , nor the Variorum of 1821 , nor anybody's , but a Text ...
... Folio , of course , with many returns to it in passages that now vary from it quite need- lessly . But it will be neither the Cambridge , nor Dyce's , nor Collier's , nor Knight's , nor the Variorum of 1821 , nor anybody's , but a Text ...
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... Folio text without emendation.54 We have found the majority of his interpretations convincing ; very few had been made before and some have not yet been made by editors.55 In our judgment Crosby's best achievement is the il- lumination ...
... Folio text without emendation.54 We have found the majority of his interpretations convincing ; very few had been made before and some have not yet been made by editors.55 In our judgment Crosby's best achievement is the il- lumination ...
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