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Page ix
... play but also the actual personality of one of the characters ; and , secondly , the picture the play gives us of country life , sports , and manners in England , which we have not elsewhere drawn for us with the same fulness by Shake ...
... play but also the actual personality of one of the characters ; and , secondly , the picture the play gives us of country life , sports , and manners in England , which we have not elsewhere drawn for us with the same fulness by Shake ...
Page xii
... play is , for a series of reasons , placed at 1598. There is an entry , Anno 1605 , in Cunningham's Revells Booke ( p . 203 , Shaks . Soc . ) : " By his Matis plaiers . The Sunday ffollowinge ( Hallowas Day ) A Play of the Merry Wiues ...
... play is , for a series of reasons , placed at 1598. There is an entry , Anno 1605 , in Cunningham's Revells Booke ( p . 203 , Shaks . Soc . ) : " By his Matis plaiers . The Sunday ffollowinge ( Hallowas Day ) A Play of the Merry Wiues ...
Page xiii
... play would be omitted , but lines or pieces of these blocks would be retained in order to preserve the continuity of narrative and action . Possibly the shortened play was the one the public were more familiar with , which rendered the ...
... play would be omitted , but lines or pieces of these blocks would be retained in order to preserve the continuity of narrative and action . Possibly the shortened play was the one the public were more familiar with , which rendered the ...
Page xvi
... play , though undoubtedly they belong to the text . They elaborate the characterisation , and draw on the coming events . But we do not need to be told again about the sawpit . Finally , we have all these minutiæ repeated not only in ...
... play , though undoubtedly they belong to the text . They elaborate the characterisation , and draw on the coming events . But we do not need to be told again about the sawpit . Finally , we have all these minutiæ repeated not only in ...
Page xviii
... play was adapted expressly for Windsor , and the shortened one for representation else- where . It is hard to avoid the feeling , though it is perhaps not capable of proof , that this play was written for and acted at Windsor itself ...
... play was adapted expressly for Windsor , and the shortened one for representation else- where . It is hard to avoid the feeling , though it is perhaps not capable of proof , that this play was written for and acted at Windsor itself ...
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Page 38 - Sing unto the LORD with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God: 8 who covereth the heaven with clouds, who prepareth rain for the earth, who maketh grass to grow upon the mountains. 9 He giveth to the beast his food, and to the young ravens which cry.
Page 202 - Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet...
Page lxvii - The moral to be drawn from this representation is, that no man is more dangerous than he that, with a will to corrupt, hath the power to please ; and that neither wit nor honesty ought to think themselves safe with such a companion, when they see Henry seduced by Falstaff.
Page x - ... of Auncient Pistoll, and Corporall Nym. By William Shakespeare. As it hath bene diuers times Acted by the right Honorable my lord Chamberlaines seruants. Both before her Maiestie, and else-where. London Printed by TC for Arthur Johnson, and are to be sold at his shop in Powles Church-yard, at the signe of the Flower de Leuse and the Crowne. 1602.