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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... to correct a minor error , improve the style , or achieve greater clarity . The list of the author's publications was com- piled by Cathryn A. Nelson . CONTENTS List of Plates .. List of Abbreviations Philip Massinger FOREWORD xi.
... to correct a minor error , improve the style , or achieve greater clarity . The list of the author's publications was com- piled by Cathryn A. Nelson . CONTENTS List of Plates .. List of Abbreviations Philip Massinger FOREWORD xi.
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... Publications of the Modern Language Association of America P.R.O .: Public Record Office , London PQ : Philological Quarterly RES : Review of English Studies RN : Renaissance News RQ : Renaissance Quarterly ( = RN ) SAB : Shakespeare ...
... Publications of the Modern Language Association of America P.R.O .: Public Record Office , London PQ : Philological Quarterly RES : Review of English Studies RN : Renaissance News RQ : Renaissance Quarterly ( = RN ) SAB : Shakespeare ...
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... publication of Spencer's edition of The Bondman and Kirk's edition of The City Madam . I shall have occasion later to make two specific statements of indebtedness to these editors . 11 Leslie Hotson , The Commonwealth and Restoration ...
... publication of Spencer's edition of The Bondman and Kirk's edition of The City Madam . I shall have occasion later to make two specific statements of indebtedness to these editors . 11 Leslie Hotson , The Commonwealth and Restoration ...
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... publication of the Beaumont and Fletcher folio of 1647 ( The Wild Goose Chase was not included because the manuscript became available too late ) . Many other dramatic manuscripts first reached the printer during the Commonwealth period ...
... publication of the Beaumont and Fletcher folio of 1647 ( The Wild Goose Chase was not included because the manuscript became available too late ) . Many other dramatic manuscripts first reached the printer during the Commonwealth period ...
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... publication . He succeeded to his master's business in 1664 ( Plomer , p . 145 ) . The interval of 1664 to 1671 is narrowed by three years if Head's narrative Life of Mother Shipton was actually printed in 1667 ; it is narrowed still ...
... publication . He succeeded to his master's business in 1664 ( Plomer , p . 145 ) . The interval of 1664 to 1671 is narrowed by three years if Head's narrative Life of Mother Shipton was actually printed in 1667 ; it is narrowed still ...
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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