The Plays of William Shakspeare: With Notes of Various Commentators, Volume 1George Kearsley, 1806 |
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Page vii
... character of Falstaff , in The Two Parts of Henry the Fourth , that she commanded him to continue it for one play more , and to show him in love . This is said to be the oc- casion of his writing The Merry Wives of Windsor : How well ...
... character of Falstaff , in The Two Parts of Henry the Fourth , that she commanded him to continue it for one play more , and to show him in love . This is said to be the oc- casion of his writing The Merry Wives of Windsor : How well ...
Page xi
... character of the man is best seen in his writings . But since Ben Jonson has made a sort of an essay towards it in his Discove- rics , I will give it in his words : " " I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to ...
... character of the man is best seen in his writings . But since Ben Jonson has made a sort of an essay towards it in his Discove- rics , I will give it in his words : " " I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to ...
Page xiii
... character given of him by Ben Jonson , there is a good deal true in it : but I be- lieve it may be as well expressed by what Horace says of the first Romans who wrote tragedy upon the Greek models , ( or indeed translated them , ) in ...
... character given of him by Ben Jonson , there is a good deal true in it : but I be- lieve it may be as well expressed by what Horace says of the first Romans who wrote tragedy upon the Greek models , ( or indeed translated them , ) in ...
Page xiv
... characters which he thought fit to meddle with . Falstaff is allowed by every body to be a master- piece ; the character is always well sustained , though drawn out into the length of three plays ; and even the account of his death ...
... characters which he thought fit to meddle with . Falstaff is allowed by every body to be a master- piece ; the character is always well sustained , though drawn out into the length of three plays ; and even the account of his death ...
Page xv
... character there was hardly any play writ in that time , are all very entertaining : and , I believe , Thersites in Troilus and Cressida , and Apemantus in Timon , will be allowed to be master - pieces of ill nature , and sa- tirical ...
... character there was hardly any play writ in that time , are all very entertaining : and , I believe , Thersites in Troilus and Cressida , and Apemantus in Timon , will be allowed to be master - pieces of ill nature , and sa- tirical ...
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