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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... whole world kin " Joseph Crosby to Frederick Gard Fleay ( July 1876 , July 1877 ) Folger Books Washington : The Folger Shakespeare Library London and Toronto : Associated University Presses This One C58H - YOR - 6RQA 1986 by Associated ...
... whole world kin " Joseph Crosby to Frederick Gard Fleay ( July 1876 , July 1877 ) Folger Books Washington : The Folger Shakespeare Library London and Toronto : Associated University Presses This One C58H - YOR - 6RQA 1986 by Associated ...
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... whole chap It is really Dr Mahn's Dictionary , & not webstri or Goodrichs , Etymology . But read what while says ; it will amuse , you hugely I am very fortunate in ny stock of Dictionaries . My library boosts of all the best . Did ...
... whole chap It is really Dr Mahn's Dictionary , & not webstri or Goodrichs , Etymology . But read what while says ; it will amuse , you hugely I am very fortunate in ny stock of Dictionaries . My library boosts of all the best . Did ...
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... roots and its dramatic import , and explicating it learnedly and con- vincingly . 52 He interprets many bawdy phrases in Shakespeare , in one case devoting a whole letter ( 55 ) to three of 26 ONE TOUCH OF SHAKESPEARE.
... roots and its dramatic import , and explicating it learnedly and con- vincingly . 52 He interprets many bawdy phrases in Shakespeare , in one case devoting a whole letter ( 55 ) to three of 26 ONE TOUCH OF SHAKESPEARE.
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... whole letter ( 55 ) to three of them . Sometimes the interpretation he makes had been rediscovered by Eric Partridge's time , but often it had not been.53 As with bawdy , so with textual cruxes generally . Crosby explicates doz- ens of ...
... whole letter ( 55 ) to three of them . Sometimes the interpretation he makes had been rediscovered by Eric Partridge's time , but often it had not been.53 As with bawdy , so with textual cruxes generally . Crosby explicates doz- ens of ...
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