Studies in Shakespeare, Bibliography, and TheatreThis volume is designed to pay homage to the scholarship of James G. McManaway, and at the same time to make the best of that scholarship available to a wider audience. Twenty-one essays testify to the distinguished career of this editor, scholar, and teacher. Illustrated. |
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... performance of The Virgin Martyr seems to have been given on 10 January 1661/62 , by the King's Men . This is one of the performances for which Sir Henry Herbert tried to collect fees and for which Killigrew , on 4 June 1662 , promised ...
... performance of The Virgin Martyr seems to have been given on 10 January 1661/62 , by the King's Men . This is one of the performances for which Sir Henry Herbert tried to collect fees and for which Killigrew , on 4 June 1662 , promised ...
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... performance , but certainly not the second seen by Pepys , was 10 March 1661. One week later , Pepys went again , this time with his wife . They sat in the pit at Salisbury Court and saw the play " done to admiration . " He bought a ...
... performance , but certainly not the second seen by Pepys , was 10 March 1661. One week later , Pepys went again , this time with his wife . They sat in the pit at Salisbury Court and saw the play " done to admiration . " He bought a ...
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... performance . The plays first mentioned in the list ( Argalus and Parthenia and those preceding ) have specific dates for their performance , and so do those that follow The Dancing Master . No such specific date is given for The ...
... performance . The plays first mentioned in the list ( Argalus and Parthenia and those preceding ) have specific dates for their performance , and so do those that follow The Dancing Master . No such specific date is given for The ...
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... performance of The Country Captain at the Theatre to see the last act of The Bondman at the Opera . About this time ... performances witnessed by Browne and the identity of the company acting at Dorset Court are more difficult to ...
... performance of The Country Captain at the Theatre to see the last act of The Bondman at the Opera . About this time ... performances witnessed by Browne and the identity of the company acting at Dorset Court are more difficult to ...
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... performances in question took place in 1662-63 , they had probably quitted their resplendent ' Opera ... performance by a " Royal Company " ( the phrase is Nicoll's , 2nd ed . , p . 274 ) at the Cockpit ? If so , did the ...
... performances in question took place in 1662-63 , they had probably quitted their resplendent ' Opera ... performance by a " Royal Company " ( the phrase is Nicoll's , 2nd ed . , p . 274 ) at the Cockpit ? If so , did the ...
Contents
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Further Textual Notes 1938 | 31 |
The Lost Canto of Gondibert 1940 | 35 |
Latin TitlePage Mottoes as a Clue to Dramatic Authorship 1945 | 55 |
The Cancel in the Quarto of 2 Henry IV 1946 | 67 |
The First Five Bookes of Ovids Metamorphosis 1621 Englished by Master George Sandys 1948 | 81 |
The Two Earliest Prompt Books of Hamlet 1949 | 93 |
King James Takes A Collection 1951 | 121 |
The Authorship of Shakespeare 1962 | 175 |
Notes on Act V of Antony and Cleopatra 1962 | 211 |
Notes on Two PreRestoration Stage Curtains 1962 | 215 |
1964 | 223 |
Richard II at Covent Garden 1964 | 241 |
Shakespeare in the United States 1964 | 265 |
Excerpta quaedam per AW adolescentem 1967 | 279 |
John Shakespeares Spiritual Testament 1967 | 293 |
Songs and Masques in The Tempest 1953 | 131 |
The Colophon of the Second Folio of Shakespeare 1954 | 155 |
A Miscalculation in the Printing of the Third Folio 1954 | 157 |
Elizabeth Essex and James 1959 | 163 |
Textual Studies 194865 1948 | 305 |
A List of the Published Writings of James G McManaway | 385 |
Index | 401 |
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Page 203 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul, All the images of Nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Page 185 - I am as sorry as if the original fault had been my fault, because myself have seen his demeanour no less civil than he excellent in the quality he professes: besides, divers of worship have reported his uprightness of dealing which argues his honesty, and his facetious grace in writing, that approves his art.
Page 208 - Yet must I not give Nature all : thy art, My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part, For though the poet's matter Nature be, His art doth give the fashion, and that he Who casts to write a living line must sweat (Such as thine are) and strike the second heat Upon the Muses...
Page 147 - Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands: Courtsied when you have and kiss'd The wild waves whist, Foot it featly here and there; And, sweet sprites, the burthen bear. Hark, hark! Burthen [dispersedly, within The watch-dogs bark! Burthen Bow-wow Hark, hark! I hear The strain of strutting chanticleer Cry, Cock-a-diddle-dow. FERDINAND Where should this music be? i
Page 115 - In the corrupted currents of this world Offence's gilded hand may shove by justice, And oft 'tis seen the wicked prize itself Buys out the law: but 'tis not so above; There is no shuffling, there the action lies In his true nature, and we ourselves compell'd Even to the teeth and forehead of our faults To give in evidence.
Page 191 - Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room: Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give.
Page 179 - God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths, to steal away their brains ! that we should, with joy, revel, pleasure, and applause, transform ourselves into beasts ! lago.
Page 191 - Renowned Spenser, lie a thought more nigh To learned Chaucer ; and, rare Beaumont, lie A little nearer Spenser ; to make room For Shakespeare in your threefold fourfold tomb...
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