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... Censor , and the uses to which they were afterwards put , we must fall back on analogy . The number of extant manuscripts of Elizabethan plays written for professional performance is compara- tively small , but larger than was once ...
... Censor , and the uses to which they were afterwards put , we must fall back on analogy . The number of extant manuscripts of Elizabethan plays written for professional performance is compara- tively small , but larger than was once ...
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... Censor , it was evidently used as a playhouse copy , for there are additional stage - direc- tions in the prompter's hand , including the names of two of the actors , Richard Robinson , a boy who played a woman's part , and ' Mr. Gough ...
... Censor , it was evidently used as a playhouse copy , for there are additional stage - direc- tions in the prompter's hand , including the names of two of the actors , Richard Robinson , a boy who played a woman's part , and ' Mr. Gough ...
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... Censor would have noted . The frequent marginal warnings to the various characters to ' bee redy ' indicate that the manuscript was intended for playhouse purposes , but these entries seem to be in the same hand as I He is evidently the ...
... Censor would have noted . The frequent marginal warnings to the various characters to ' bee redy ' indicate that the manuscript was intended for playhouse purposes , but these entries seem to be in the same hand as I He is evidently the ...
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... Censor with the necessary ' reformations , ' and afterwards used for play- house purposes . Another smaller collection of manuscript plays , five in number , has recently come into notice in the library of Worcester College , Oxford ...
... Censor with the necessary ' reformations , ' and afterwards used for play- house purposes . Another smaller collection of manuscript plays , five in number , has recently come into notice in the library of Worcester College , Oxford ...
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... Censor's endorsement , and were used as prompt copies . Thomas of Woodstock makes the impression of be- longing to the same class . Sir Thomas More was evidently submitted to the Master of the Revels in the autograph copy which was ...
... Censor's endorsement , and were used as prompt copies . Thomas of Woodstock makes the impression of be- longing to the same class . Sir Thomas More was evidently submitted to the Master of the Revels in the autograph copy which was ...
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Page 256 - The younger sort takes much delight in Shakespeares Venus, & Adonis: but his Lucrece, & his tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke, haue it in them, to please the wiser sort.
Page 64 - Hanmer, the Oxford editor, a man, in my opinion, eminently qualified by nature for such studies. He had, what is the first requisite to emendatory criticism, that intuition by which the poet's intention is immediately discovered, and that dexterity of intellect which despatches its work by the easiest means.
Page 67 - I have this to say : the language of the age is never the language of poetry ; except among the French, whose verse, where the thought or image does not support it, differs in nothing from prose. Our poetry, on the contrary, has a language peculiar to itself ; to which almost every one, that has written, has added something by enriching it with foreign idioms and derivatives : nay sometimes words of their own composition or invention. Shakespeare and Milton have been great creators this way ; and...
Page 68 - But they are infinite: and our language not being a settled thing (like the French) has an undoubted right to words of an hundred years old, provided antiquity have not rendered them unintelligible.
Page 27 - The younger sort take much delight in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis ; but his Lucrece, and his tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmarke, have it in them to please the wiser sort, 1598.
Page 257 - Whose written deuises fair excell most of the sonets, and cantos in print. His Amaryllis, & Sir Walter Raleighs Cynthia, how fine & sweet inuentions? Excellent matter of emulation for Spencer, Constable, France, Watson, Daniel, Warner, Chapman, Siluester, Shakespeare, & the rest of owr florishing metricians.
Page 14 - Historic of Hamlet Prince of Denmarke By William Shake-speare. As it hath beene diuerse times acted by his Highnesse seruants in the Cittie of London : as also in the two Vniuersities of Cambridge and Oxford, and else-where.
Page 70 - He remembered perhaps enough of his school-boy learning to put the Hig, tiag, hog, into the mouth of Sir Hugh Evans ; and might pick up in the writers of the time, or the course of his conversation, a familiar phrase or two of French or Italian : but his studies were most demonstratively confined to nature and his own language.
Page 63 - But, by inserting his emendations, whether invented or borrowed, into the page, without any notice of varying copies, he has appropriated the labour of his predecessors, and made his own edition of little authority. His confidence indeed, both in himself and others, was too great; he supposes...
Page 65 - Those Sibyl-leaves, the sport of every wind, (For poets ever were a careless kind) By thee dispos'd no farther toil demand, But, just to Nature, own thy forming hand. So spread o'er Greece th...