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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... told Norris half seriously , he would realize at a cost of some five or six thousand dollars if he inherited money from his father.50 He describes it in detail in letter 69 and elsewhere : . . . The text shall be my own — based chiefly ...
... told Norris half seriously , he would realize at a cost of some five or six thousand dollars if he inherited money from his father.50 He describes it in detail in letter 69 and elsewhere : . . . The text shall be my own — based chiefly ...
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... told Crosby in a private letter ( see letter 248 ) that he was the " godfather " of the 900 - page book that grew out of Snider's essays on moral patterns in Shakespeare's plays , but Crosby is not mentioned in the book . Norris's ...
... told Crosby in a private letter ( see letter 248 ) that he was the " godfather " of the 900 - page book that grew out of Snider's essays on moral patterns in Shakespeare's plays , but Crosby is not mentioned in the book . Norris's ...
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