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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... Criticism and interpretation- History - 19th century - Sources . 4. Norris , Joseph Parker , 1847-1916 - Correspondence . 5. Book collectors -United States Correspondence . I. Norris , Joseph Parker , 1847-1916 . II . Velz , John W. III ...
... Criticism and interpretation- History - 19th century - Sources . 4. Norris , Joseph Parker , 1847-1916 - Correspondence . 5. Book collectors -United States Correspondence . I. Norris , Joseph Parker , 1847-1916 . II . Velz , John W. III ...
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... criticism , and , most prominently , the interpretation of the text of Shake- speare , Joseph Crosby's favorite subject . Nearly every question that might be of interest to a Shakespearian in the 1870s is thoroughly discussed somewhere ...
... criticism , and , most prominently , the interpretation of the text of Shake- speare , Joseph Crosby's favorite subject . Nearly every question that might be of interest to a Shakespearian in the 1870s is thoroughly discussed somewhere ...
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... criticism , advice , and encouragement . Crosby also contributed in a small way to H. H. Furness's Variorum Hamlet ( 1877 ) , and he revised the proofs of John S. Hart's life of Shakespeare after Hart's death ( see letter 246 ) . He ...
... criticism , advice , and encouragement . Crosby also contributed in a small way to H. H. Furness's Variorum Hamlet ( 1877 ) , and he revised the proofs of John S. Hart's life of Shakespeare after Hart's death ( see letter 246 ) . He ...
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... criticism a will - o ' - the - wisp unless founded on a firm grasp of the lexical meaning of a text . But for Joseph Crosby literature was more than its grammar : his favorite reading — Shakespeare , the Bible , Horace , Milton — is ...
... criticism a will - o ' - the - wisp unless founded on a firm grasp of the lexical meaning of a text . But for Joseph Crosby literature was more than its grammar : his favorite reading — Shakespeare , the Bible , Horace , Milton — is ...
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... criticism— while the journal lasted ; the letters in the Folger are , then , in part a minor record of American magazine journalism in the 1870s . 31 The letters we have printed will cumulatively give a full picture of Nor- ris's ...
... criticism— while the journal lasted ; the letters in the Folger are , then , in part a minor record of American magazine journalism in the 1870s . 31 The letters we have printed will cumulatively give a full picture of Nor- ris's ...
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