The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes, Volume 11J. Nichols and Son, 1813 |
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... play on the subject of Richard the Second ; but I know not in what language . Sir Gillie Merick , who was concerned in the hare - brained business of the Earl of Essex , who was hanged for it , with the ingenious Cuffe , in 1601 , is ...
... play on the subject of Richard the Second ; but I know not in what language . Sir Gillie Merick , who was concerned in the hare - brained business of the Earl of Essex , who was hanged for it , with the ingenious Cuffe , in 1601 , is ...
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... play , and in that play there being set forth the killing of the king upon a stage ; the Friday before , Sir Gilly Merick and some others of the earl's train having an humour to see a play , they must needs have The Play of HENRY IV ...
... play , and in that play there being set forth the killing of the king upon a stage ; the Friday before , Sir Gilly Merick and some others of the earl's train having an humour to see a play , they must needs have The Play of HENRY IV ...
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... play ; they are so much inferior to the rest of the writing , that they appear to me of a different hand . What confirms this , is , that the context does every where exactly ( and frequently much better ) connect , without the inserted ...
... play ; they are so much inferior to the rest of the writing , that they appear to me of a different hand . What confirms this , is , that the context does every where exactly ( and frequently much better ) connect , without the inserted ...
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... play , in 1597 , being in general much more correct than the folio , and the quartos of 1608 , and 1615 , from the latter of which the folio appears to have been printed , I have preferred the elder reading . MALONE . • Marshal , ask ...
... play , in 1597 , being in general much more correct than the folio , and the quartos of 1608 , and 1615 , from the latter of which the folio appears to have been printed , I have preferred the elder reading . MALONE . • Marshal , ask ...
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... obliges us to read it . JOHNSON . The commentators forget that to jest sometimes signifies in old language to play a part in a mask . Thus , in Hieronymo K. RICH . Farewell , my lord : securely I. SC . III . 25 KING RICHARD II .
... obliges us to read it . JOHNSON . The commentators forget that to jest sometimes signifies in old language to play a part in a mask . Thus , in Hieronymo K. RICH . Farewell , my lord : securely I. SC . III . 25 KING RICHARD II .
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