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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... write like a man of his time : he introduces subjects and intellectual perspectives more characteristic of the mid - twentieth century than of the late nineteenth . So one can find in the letters inter alia consideration of the ...
... write like a man of his time : he introduces subjects and intellectual perspectives more characteristic of the mid - twentieth century than of the late nineteenth . So one can find in the letters inter alia consideration of the ...
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... write to a publisher's formulaic prescription is to " fill the order ' as per sample ' " ( 108 ) . From the 1850s ... writing long letters to Norris that drew on the resources of the collection . Crosby had begun gathering the library in ...
... write to a publisher's formulaic prescription is to " fill the order ' as per sample ' " ( 108 ) . From the 1850s ... writing long letters to Norris that drew on the resources of the collection . Crosby had begun gathering the library in ...
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... write to him with fear & trembling , expecting every minute 1 may be ' smashed ' . . . " ( 161 ) . 30. See various comments about Dowden , Snider , Brae and other scholars . 31. One of his tricks of style is quoting Shakespeare out of ...
... write to him with fear & trembling , expecting every minute 1 may be ' smashed ' . . . " ( 161 ) . 30. See various comments about Dowden , Snider , Brae and other scholars . 31. One of his tricks of style is quoting Shakespeare out of ...
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