In Re Shakespeare: Beeching V. Greenwood; Rejoinder on Behalf of the DefendantJohn Lane, 1909 - 152 pages |
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In Re Shakespeare - Beeching V. Greenwood; Rejoinder on Behalf of the Defendant G. G. Greenwood No preview available - 2007 |
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Page 80 - ... who, as he was a happie imitator of Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it. His mind and hand went together; and what he thought, he uttered with that easinesse that wee have scarse received from him a blot in his papers.
Page 40 - I have heard that Mr. Shakespeare was a natural wit, without any art at all; he frequented the plays all his younger time, but in his elder days lived at Stratford, and supplied the stage with two plays every year ; and for that had an allowance so large that he spent at the rate of 1 ,0:1.1/. a year, as I have heard.
Page 79 - It had been a thing, we confess, worthy to have been wished, that the author himself had lived to have set forth and overseen his own writings. But, since it hath been ordained otherwise, and he by death departed from that right, we pray you do not envy his friends the office of their care and pain, to have collected and published them...
Page 142 - Maister Fletcher: And lastly (without wrong last to be named), the right happy and copious industry of M. Shake-speare, M. Decker, & M. Heywood, wishing what I write may be read by their light...
Page 41 - This William being inclined naturally to poetry and acting, came to London, I guesse, about 1 8 ; and was an actor at one of the play-houses, and did act exceedingly well (now B.
Page 124 - Steevens, the most acute, and perhaps the most learned, of his commentators, stated, long before, that " all that is known with any degree of certainty concerning Shakespeare is — that he was born at Stratford-upon-Avon — married and had children there — went to London, where he commenced actor and wrote poems and plays — returned to Stratford, made his will, died, and was buried.
Page 47 - His name is printed, as the custom was in those times, amongst those of the other players, before some old plays, but without any particular account of what sort of parts he used to play : and though I have inquired, I could never meet with any further account of him this way than that the top of his performance was the Ghost in his own Hamlet.
Page 126 - Latin he was master of: but the narrowness of his circumstances, and the want of his assistance at home, forced his father to withdraw him from thence, and unhappily prevented his further proficiency in that language.
Page 11 - Though it has hitherto been too much to ask people to suppose that SHAKSPERE knew how to spell his own name, I hope the demand may not prove too great for the imagination of the Members of the New Society.
Page 80 - ... and all the rest absolute in their numbers as he conceived them; who, as he was a happie imitator of Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it.