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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Sometime during the year appeared Q 1661 of The Virgin Martyr , the only play by Massinger to be printed without alteration during the Restoration period . No more unaltered plays were published until ...
Sometime during the year appeared Q 1661 of The Virgin Martyr , the only play by Massinger to be printed without alteration during the Restoration period . No more unaltered plays were published until ...
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25 But see the discussion of this point in W. J. Lawrence's lecture , " Hamlet as Shakespeare Staged It , " delivered under the auspices of the Tudor and Stuart Club , as printed in The Johns Hopkins Alumni Magazine , XIV ( 1925 ) ...
25 But see the discussion of this point in W. J. Lawrence's lecture , " Hamlet as Shakespeare Staged It , " delivered under the auspices of the Tudor and Stuart Club , as printed in The Johns Hopkins Alumni Magazine , XIV ( 1925 ) ...
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In the next play to be discussed , we meet the first printed adaptation of Massinger in the Restoration . The Life of Mother Shipton . A New Comedy , although " acted Nineteen dayes together with great Applause " ( or so the title ...
In the next play to be discussed , we meet the first printed adaptation of Massinger in the Restoration . The Life of Mother Shipton . A New Comedy , although " acted Nineteen dayes together with great Applause " ( or so the title ...
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Head returned to London from Ireland in 1663 and printed his play , Hic et Ubique . Other works appeared rapidly until 1666 or 1667. There is then a gap in his publications until 1672. After that Head continued prolific .
Head returned to London from Ireland in 1663 and printed his play , Hic et Ubique . Other works appeared rapidly until 1666 or 1667. There is then a gap in his publications until 1672. After that Head continued prolific .
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And if the plays were printed in the order play there is a group of beggars who praise their calling as enthusiastically as those in Brome's Jovial Crew ; Head wrote a Canting Dictionary in 1673 . Why should Head have wished to conceal ...
And if the plays were printed in the order play there is a group of beggars who praise their calling as enthusiastically as those in Brome's Jovial Crew ; Head wrote a Canting Dictionary in 1673 . Why should Head have wished to conceal ...
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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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Bibliographic information
| Title | Studies in Shakespeare, Bibliography, and Theatre |
| Author | James G. McManaway |
| Editors | Richard Hosley, Arthur C. Kirsch, John W. Velz |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Associated University Presses, 1990 |
| ISBN | 0918016487, 9780918016485 |
| Length | 417 pages |
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