The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes, Volume 5J. Nichols and Son, 1813 |
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... song 14. STEEVENS . Queen Elizabeth was so well pleased with the admirable cha- racter of Falstaff in The Two Parts of Henry IV . that , as Mr. Rowe informs us , she commanded Shakspeare to continue it for one play more , and to shew ...
... song 14. STEEVENS . Queen Elizabeth was so well pleased with the admirable cha- racter of Falstaff in The Two Parts of Henry IV . that , as Mr. Rowe informs us , she commanded Shakspeare to continue it for one play more , and to shew ...
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... songs enterlaced . " When female characters were filled by boys , to speak small like a woman must have been a valuable qualification . So , in Marston's What you will : " I was solicited to graunt him leave to play the lady in comedies ...
... songs enterlaced . " When female characters were filled by boys , to speak small like a woman must have been a valuable qualification . So , in Marston's What you will : " I was solicited to graunt him leave to play the lady in comedies ...
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... Songs and Sonnets here : ' — 1 • my book of Songs and Sonnets here : ] It cannot be supposed that poor Slender was himself a poet . He probably means the Poems of Lord Surrey and others , which were very popular in the age of Queen ...
... Songs and Sonnets here : ' — 1 • my book of Songs and Sonnets here : ] It cannot be supposed that poor Slender was himself a poet . He probably means the Poems of Lord Surrey and others , which were very popular in the age of Queen ...
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... song then well known . In Every Woman in her Humour , 1609 , sign . E 1 , one of the characters says , Hey good boies ! i'faith now a three man's song , or the old downe adowne : well , things must be as they may ; fil's the other quart ...
... song then well known . In Every Woman in her Humour , 1609 , sign . E 1 , one of the characters says , Hey good boies ! i'faith now a three man's song , or the old downe adowne : well , things must be as they may ; fil's the other quart ...
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... song was entered on the books of the Stationers ' Company in September , 1580 : " Licensed unto Richard Jones , a newe northerne dittye of the Lady Green Sleeves . " Again , " Licensed unto Edward White , a ballad , beinge the Lady ...
... song was entered on the books of the Stationers ' Company in September , 1580 : " Licensed unto Richard Jones , a newe northerne dittye of the Lady Green Sleeves . " Again , " Licensed unto Edward White , a ballad , beinge the Lady ...
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