Studies of Shakspere: Forming a Companion Volume to the National Edition of the Pictorial ShakspereKnight, 1851 - 560 pages |
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... Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best 1598 - twelve plays which we would not ex- for comedy and tragedy among the Latins , change for all the contemporary dramatic so Shakespeare , among the English , is the literature produced in ...
... Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best 1598 - twelve plays which we would not ex- for comedy and tragedy among the Latins , change for all the contemporary dramatic so Shakespeare , among the English , is the literature produced in ...
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... Plautus is distinguished Menæchmus Surreptus . There was a translation of this comedy of Plautus , to which we shall presently more fully advert . " If the poet had not dipped into the original Plautus , ” says Capell , “ Sur- reptus ...
... Plautus is distinguished Menæchmus Surreptus . There was a translation of this comedy of Plautus , to which we shall presently more fully advert . " If the poet had not dipped into the original Plautus , ” says Capell , “ Sur- reptus ...
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... Plautus and of Shakspere . It stands in the place of the beautiful narrative of Ægeon , in the first scene of ' The Comedy of Errors . ' In Plautus we have no broken - hearted father bereft of both his sons : he is dead ; and the ...
... Plautus and of Shakspere . It stands in the place of the beautiful narrative of Ægeon , in the first scene of ' The Comedy of Errors . ' In Plautus we have no broken - hearted father bereft of both his sons : he is dead ; and the ...
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... Plautus . But surely the " ' jugglers , " sorcerers , " " witches , " of Shakspere are not these . With his exquisite judgment , he gave Ephesus more characteristic " liberties of sin . " The cook of the courtezan in Plautus first mis ...
... Plautus . But surely the " ' jugglers , " sorcerers , " " witches , " of Shakspere are not these . With his exquisite judgment , he gave Ephesus more characteristic " liberties of sin . " The cook of the courtezan in Plautus first mis ...
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... Plautus , and is not an improvement on it . " We think he is wrong in both assertions . We have noticed some of the anachronisms which the translator of Plautus , in Shak- into his performance . W. W. did not do this ignorantly ; for he ...
... Plautus , and is not an improvement on it . " We think he is wrong in both assertions . We have noticed some of the anachronisms which the translator of Plautus , in Shak- into his performance . W. W. did not do this ignorantly ; for he ...
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