The Works of Shakespeare: The taming of the shrewMethuen, 1904 |
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... they intervene with a few words at four several points in its conduct , and are themselves dismissed in a short separate scene at its close . Pope , who thought the old play must be Shakespeare's , 1 inserted these passages INTRODUCTION XV.
... they intervene with a few words at four several points in its conduct , and are themselves dismissed in a short separate scene at its close . Pope , who thought the old play must be Shakespeare's , 1 inserted these passages INTRODUCTION XV.
Page xviii
... close of Acts I. , III , and IV . ( and the first and third of these actually coincide with the close of the Folio Acts I. and IV . ) , yet this would make Act IV . disproportionately short , and the intervention at p . 533 , occurring ...
... close of Acts I. , III , and IV . ( and the first and third of these actually coincide with the close of the Folio Acts I. and IV . ) , yet this would make Act IV . disproportionately short , and the intervention at p . 533 , occurring ...
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... close correspondence of conduct and incident , especially in what concerns Petruchio , Katharine , and Grumio . In A Shrew we have the same initial condition of a husband to be found first for Kate , the same summary wooing and ...
... close correspondence of conduct and incident , especially in what concerns Petruchio , Katharine , and Grumio . In A Shrew we have the same initial condition of a husband to be found first for Kate , the same summary wooing and ...
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... close resemblance , unless a couple of tirades ( pp . 23 , 32-34 ) in Guevara's misogynist vein might be reckoned as such ; but Dekker , Chettle , and Haughton's play Patient Grissil ( 1599 ) , founded on it , evidently feels the ...
... close resemblance , unless a couple of tirades ( pp . 23 , 32-34 ) in Guevara's misogynist vein might be reckoned as such ; but Dekker , Chettle , and Haughton's play Patient Grissil ( 1599 ) , founded on it , evidently feels the ...
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... close concern with it . Authorship of " A Shrew . " — The model in this instance , A Shrew , has been assigned in turn to every near and important predecessor of Shakespeare save Lyly and Nash , and the idea of Shakespeare's own ...
... close concern with it . Authorship of " A Shrew . " — The model in this instance , A Shrew , has been assigned in turn to every near and important predecessor of Shakespeare save Lyly and Nash , and the idea of Shakespeare's own ...
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Page 21 - The mathematics, and the metaphysics, Fall to them, as you find your stomach serves you: No profit grows where is no pleasure ta'en ; — In brief, sir, study what you most affect.
Page 151 - Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance commits his body To painful labour both by sea and land, To watch the night in storms, the day in cold, Whilst thou liest warm at home, secure and safe; And craves no other tribute at thy hands But love, fair looks and true obedience; Too little payment for so great a debt.
Page 151 - ... lord, thy life, thy keeper, Thy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee, And for thy maintenance commits his body To painful labour both by sea and land, To watch the night in storms, the day in cold, Whilst thou liest warm at home, secure and safe; And craves no other tribute at thy hands But love, fair looks, and true obedience— Too little payment for so great a debt. Such duty as the subject owes the prince, Even such a woman oweth to her husband...
Page 151 - What is she but a foul contending rebel And graceless traitor to her loving lord ? I am ashamed that women are so simple To offer war where they should kneel for peace, Or seek for rule, supremacy and sway, When they are bound to serve, love and obey.