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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... passages , and he characteristically quoted Latin authors in his letters without book , as we can tell when he alters the wording in trivial ways or assigns a passage to the wrong author . He was linguistically at- tuned , a ...
... passages , and he characteristically quoted Latin authors in his letters without book , as we can tell when he alters the wording in trivial ways or assigns a passage to the wrong author . He was linguistically at- tuned , a ...
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... passages transcribed here . Only capitals , paragraphing , and some punctu- ation are in any way troublesome in Crosby's ... passage we deleted , sometimes supplying sentence capitals after ellipsis , occasionally opening or closing a ...
... passages transcribed here . Only capitals , paragraphing , and some punctu- ation are in any way troublesome in Crosby's ... passage we deleted , sometimes supplying sentence capitals after ellipsis , occasionally opening or closing a ...
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... passage ( as he often does , solemnly or facetiously ) we are silent , but when he explicates or discusses a passage , we locate it unless he has done so adequately.42 An explanatory note appears only the first time it is appropriate ...
... passage ( as he often does , solemnly or facetiously ) we are silent , but when he explicates or discusses a passage , we locate it unless he has done so adequately.42 An explanatory note appears only the first time it is appropriate ...
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... passage in Shakespeare , on a book or author , an actress , bookseller , or Shakespearian character . It is our hope that the text and apparatus offered here will assist any of these styles of reading . Joseph Crosby's Place in the ...
... passage in Shakespeare , on a book or author , an actress , bookseller , or Shakespearian character . It is our hope that the text and apparatus offered here will assist any of these styles of reading . Joseph Crosby's Place in the ...
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... 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 selected just to suit myself alone ...
... 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 selected just to suit myself alone ...
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