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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... published a book , and his career ended in scandal and flight . Few remembered him in 1922 when Henry Clay Folger bought the Crosby letters that Norris had pre- served for half a century . More than fifty years then passed before the ...
... published a book , and his career ended in scandal and flight . Few remembered him in 1922 when Henry Clay Folger bought the Crosby letters that Norris had pre- served for half a century . More than fifty years then passed before the ...
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... publish the Crosby correspondence , and Folger Books , under the direction of John F. Andrews , has undertaken that publication . To John Andrews we owe thanks for understanding what we mean by " the Shake- spearian general reader ...
... publish the Crosby correspondence , and Folger Books , under the direction of John F. Andrews , has undertaken that publication . To John Andrews we owe thanks for understanding what we mean by " the Shake- spearian general reader ...
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... published the Shakespeare edition he clearly envisioned , though he was instrumental in the shaping and publi- cation of the books of others . C. M. Ingleby's revised edition of The Still Lion : Shakespearian Hermeneutics ( 1874-75 ) ...
... published the Shakespeare edition he clearly envisioned , though he was instrumental in the shaping and publi- cation of the books of others . C. M. Ingleby's revised edition of The Still Lion : Shakespearian Hermeneutics ( 1874-75 ) ...
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... published between 1709 ( the first Rowe ) and 1881 ( the second Hudson ) .18 He also had more than 300 editions of individual plays and a Shakespeariana collection that was very nearly com- plete for the eighteenth and nineteenth ...
... published between 1709 ( the first Rowe ) and 1881 ( the second Hudson ) .18 He also had more than 300 editions of individual plays and a Shakespeariana collection that was very nearly com- plete for the eighteenth and nineteenth ...
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... tember 1887 that she did not know then whether her husband was still alive . No obituary appeared in Shakespeariana in 1891 or 1892 , though the journal regularly published obituaries of Shakespearians ; H. H. Furness Introduction 19.
... tember 1887 that she did not know then whether her husband was still alive . No obituary appeared in Shakespeariana in 1891 or 1892 , though the journal regularly published obituaries of Shakespearians ; H. H. Furness Introduction 19.
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