The Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare, Volume 1T. Tegg, 1812 |
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Page 52
... English histories he took from English chronicles and English ballads ; and as the ancient writers were made known to his countrymen by versions , they supplied him with new subjects ; he dilated some of Plutarch's lives into plays ...
... English histories he took from English chronicles and English ballads ; and as the ancient writers were made known to his countrymen by versions , they supplied him with new subjects ; he dilated some of Plutarch's lives into plays ...
Page 55
... English . What can be more proba- ble , than that he who copied that , would have copied more ; but that those which were not translated were inaccessible ? ! Whether he knew the modern languages is uncertain . That his plays have some ...
... English . What can be more proba- ble , than that he who copied that , would have copied more ; but that those which were not translated were inaccessible ? ! Whether he knew the modern languages is uncertain . That his plays have some ...
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... English Tragedy , that the portrait of Macbeth's wife is copied from Buchanan , " whose spirit , as well as words , is translated into the play of Shakespeare : and it had sig- nified nothing to have pored only on Holinshed for facts ...
... English Tragedy , that the portrait of Macbeth's wife is copied from Buchanan , " whose spirit , as well as words , is translated into the play of Shakespeare : and it had sig- nified nothing to have pored only on Holinshed for facts ...
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