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Page xxiii
... Jack Straw . George Peele was about half a dozen years older than Shakespeare . He died probably in 1597. Nashe outlived him three or four years while he ( Peele ) survived Greene for about five years and Marlowe a year less . It must ...
... Jack Straw . George Peele was about half a dozen years older than Shakespeare . He died probably in 1597. Nashe outlived him three or four years while he ( Peele ) survived Greene for about five years and Marlowe a year less . It must ...
Page xxiv
... Jack Straw as Peele's . It was the parallelism of scenes and situations in this unimportant little play , with some of the Cade work in The Contention that made me feel on sure ground with regard to Peele . I studied Jack Straw when I ...
... Jack Straw as Peele's . It was the parallelism of scenes and situations in this unimportant little play , with some of the Cade work in The Contention that made me feel on sure ground with regard to Peele . I studied Jack Straw when I ...
Page xxv
... Jack Straw . In the first place the metre at once strikes the reader with surprise . It begins with lines of irregular length , only to be sorted by their rhymes -lines that give one the feeling they were food for revision and very ...
... Jack Straw . In the first place the metre at once strikes the reader with surprise . It begins with lines of irregular length , only to be sorted by their rhymes -lines that give one the feeling they were food for revision and very ...
Page xxvi
... Jack Straw ( p . 382 ) : " But merrily with the world it went , When men ate berries of the hawthorn - tree . An ... Jack Straw ( p . 384 ) : " it seemeth strange . . . . That being won with reason and regard Of true succeeding prince ...
... Jack Straw ( p . 382 ) : " But merrily with the world it went , When men ate berries of the hawthorn - tree . An ... Jack Straw ( p . 384 ) : " it seemeth strange . . . . That being won with reason and regard Of true succeeding prince ...
Page xxvii
... Jack Straw ( p . 395 ) : " did an echo rise , That pierced the ears of our renowned king . " Battle of Alcazar ( p . 436 , a ) : " the reasons of the king , Which so effectually have pierc'd mine ears . " And Descensus Astręę ( p . 541 ...
... Jack Straw ( p . 395 ) : " did an echo rise , That pierced the ears of our renowned king . " Battle of Alcazar ( p . 436 , a ) : " the reasons of the king , Which so effectually have pierc'd mine ears . " And Descensus Astręę ( p . 541 ...
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Page 28 - ... me bread and water, being a king ; So that, for want of sleep and sustenance, My mind's distempered, and my body's numb'd, And whether I have limbs or no, I know not.
Page vii - The Whole Contention betweene the two Famous Houses, Lancaster and Yorke. With the Tragicall ends of the good Duke Humfrey, Richard Duke of Yorke, and King Henrie the sixt. Diuided into two Parts : And newly corrected and enlarged. Written by William Shakespeare, Gent. Printed at London, for TP" A small quarto, containing 64 leaves, A to Q in fours.