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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... essay on Desdemona in the form of a letter ( 226 ) to Norris might almost be taken for the interpretation of a modern feminist critic . Her tragedy , he reasons , results from a lack of independence of spirit : had she not been so ...
... essay on Desdemona in the form of a letter ( 226 ) to Norris might almost be taken for the interpretation of a modern feminist critic . Her tragedy , he reasons , results from a lack of independence of spirit : had she not been so ...
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... Essay on Education , English Studies , and Shakespeare ( 1881 ) ; the comment also appeared earlier in the Prefaces to Hudson's Annotated English Classics edns . of ]n . ( 1879 ) and AYL ( 1880 ) . Copies of the Catalogue are in the ...
... Essay on Education , English Studies , and Shakespeare ( 1881 ) ; the comment also appeared earlier in the Prefaces to Hudson's Annotated English Classics edns . of ]n . ( 1879 ) and AYL ( 1880 ) . Copies of the Catalogue are in the ...
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... essays on moral patterns in Shakespeare's plays , but Crosby is not mentioned in the book . Norris's omission of Crosby's name from his acknowledgements is a sad one , accountable to Crosby's criminal disgrace the year before ( see ...
... essays on moral patterns in Shakespeare's plays , but Crosby is not mentioned in the book . Norris's omission of Crosby's name from his acknowledgements is a sad one , accountable to Crosby's criminal disgrace the year before ( see ...
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