The History of English Dramatic Poetry to the Time of Shakespeare:: And Annals of the Stage to the Restoration, Volume 3 |
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... prose acted , either in public or private , up to that date + . Gascoigne rendered it principally from the prose original , printed at Venice in 1525 , but not without adopting some of the changes made by Ariosto , when he subsequently ...
... prose acted , either in public or private , up to that date + . Gascoigne rendered it principally from the prose original , printed at Venice in 1525 , but not without adopting some of the changes made by Ariosto , when he subsequently ...
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... prose , although it has four choruses and an epilogue in rhyme , besides two didactic poems in the third act . It is called The Glasse off Government , a tragicall comedie , and the author states that he so terms it because therein are ...
... prose , although it has four choruses and an epilogue in rhyme , besides two didactic poems in the third act . It is called The Glasse off Government , a tragicall comedie , and the author states that he so terms it because therein are ...
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... prose , the blank - verse being confined to the induction : even here , as is proved by the pas- sage just quoted , rhymes are frequent . It will be seen hereafter , when speaking of Marlow , that I attribute to him the introduction of ...
... prose , the blank - verse being confined to the induction : even here , as is proved by the pas- sage just quoted , rhymes are frequent . It will be seen hereafter , when speaking of Marlow , that I attribute to him the introduction of ...
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... prose deserves observation : it might be thought in 1583 , or soon afterwards , that the jingle of rhyme did not well suit an historical subject on the stage , and we * The play had , perhaps , been revived about 1592 or 1593 , as Nash ...
... prose deserves observation : it might be thought in 1583 , or soon afterwards , that the jingle of rhyme did not well suit an historical subject on the stage , and we * The play had , perhaps , been revived about 1592 or 1593 , as Nash ...
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... prose : the publisher seems , on this account , to have chopped up much of the original prose into lines of various lengths in order to look like some kind of measure , and now and then he has contrived to find lines of ten syllables ...
... prose : the publisher seems , on this account , to have chopped up much of the original prose into lines of various lengths in order to look like some kind of measure , and now and then he has contrived to find lines of ten syllables ...
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