The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes, Volume 2J. Nichols and Son, 1813 |
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... Plautus , which he only re - touched and polished ; and this is undoubt- • See Meres's Wits Treasury , 1598 , p . 282 . Our ancient poets are under greater obligations to Boccace , than is generally imagined . Who would suspect , that ...
... Plautus , which he only re - touched and polished ; and this is undoubt- • See Meres's Wits Treasury , 1598 , p . 282 . Our ancient poets are under greater obligations to Boccace , than is generally imagined . Who would suspect , that ...
Page 58
... Plautus ; but I do not recollect ever to have seen it observed , that the disguise of the Pedant in The Taming of the Shrew , and his assuming the name and character of Vincentio , seem to be evidently taken from the disguise of the ...
... Plautus ; but I do not recollect ever to have seen it observed , that the disguise of the Pedant in The Taming of the Shrew , and his assuming the name and character of Vincentio , seem to be evidently taken from the disguise of the ...
Page 59
... Plautus to teach him the workings of nature ; nor are his parallelisms produced with any such implication : but , I sup- pose , a peculiarity appears here in the manner of expression , which however was extremely the humour of the age ...
... Plautus to teach him the workings of nature ; nor are his parallelisms produced with any such implication : but , I sup- pose , a peculiarity appears here in the manner of expression , which however was extremely the humour of the age ...
Page 60
... Plautus his Menechmus was played by the Play- ers . " And the same hath been suspected to be the subject of the goodlie Comedie of Plautus , acted at " Pace non trovo , & non hó da far guerra , " Et temo , et spero , & ardo , & son un ...
... Plautus his Menechmus was played by the Play- ers . " And the same hath been suspected to be the subject of the goodlie Comedie of Plautus , acted at " Pace non trovo , & non hó da far guerra , " Et temo , et spero , & ardo , & son un ...
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... Plautus . Thence Shakspeare borrowed this part of the plot , ( as well as some of the phraseology , ) though Theobald pronounces it his own invention : there likewise he found the quaint name of Petruchio . My young master and his man ...
... Plautus . Thence Shakspeare borrowed this part of the plot , ( as well as some of the phraseology , ) though Theobald pronounces it his own invention : there likewise he found the quaint name of Petruchio . My young master and his man ...
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