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Contract Context Printing 160 characters of context... Expand Context ... bt and distrust'; and as troubled with fearful dreams. I can hardly doubt that Shakespeare was acquainted with Bright's <i>Treatise</i>.”</para> </cn> ...
... >, <i>firmament</i> in descriptions of earth and heaven, it seems unlikely that Shakespeare needed such inspiration. Descriptions of the glory of the heavens ...
... s merely one example (see esp. A. Harmon, <i>PMLA</i>, LVII, 994-6). As often Shakespeare achieves a magnificent result by combining elements, which, taken se ...
... amber With golden cherubins is fretted.' 'Fret' is an architectural term which Shakespeare employs in a looser sense. Bacon, in the following passage, uses it ...
... nds' (<i>MND</i> V. i. 5ff.) and which links with the creative imagination. Shakespeare is of course drawing on a common stock of ideas and terms (cf. Brigh ...
... (ed. 1982): "See B. Nicholson, <i>N&Q</i>, 4th ser. VIII, 62 ; Ingleby, <i>Shakespeare Hermeneutics</i>, pp. 71 ff. Corrupted in both F and Q1, this phra ...
... humours of children.' We have most decisive evidence that the company to which Shakespeare belonged, did occasionally leave London and <i>travel</i>, in the ti ...
... rsons who belonged to the London theatres.</para> <para>“It is said that Shakespeare was once performing at Edinburgh, but no one has yet been able to pr ...
... in his explanation, but it seems to be rather too refined, and I think that if Shakespeare intended the allusion he mentions, he would have expressed himself m ...
... place would produce anything nobler <small>or even</small> attraction. Perhaps Shakespeare wrote it to put down the aiery of young eyases. No play has been so ...
... her convenient places. The Blackfriars Theatre belonged to the company of which Shakespeare was a member, formerly the Lord Chamberlain's, and at this time His ...
... the word no formal ‘inhibition' was used issued. If by ‘inhibition' Shakespeare merely meant, as we think most probable, that the actors were practi ...
... ecture we have not lost sight of the fact that after all, remembering how chary Shakespeare is of contemporary allusions, no special occurrence may be hinted at ...
... ion' implies a past and particular rather than a continuing event (cf. Boas, <i>Shakespeare and the Universities</i>, p. 23n.).</para> <para>“The further ...
... ' of child actors are unconvincing. So, I think, is Harbage's supposition (<i>Shakespeare and the Rival Traditions</i>, pp. 114-15) that broils occasioned by ...
298) Commentary Note for lines 1386-7:1387 <Yases, that crye out on the top of question; and>... <para>“The Meaning of the Word <i>Question</i> seems to be determined by Shakespeare himself in this Play. In a Scene of the third Act, Hamlet, in his In ...
... t straining, we may fairly infer, that by <i>crying out at Top of Question</i>, Shakespeare meant that in Place of representing a Passion according to Nature, a ...
... ed flourish among the writing masters of the elder time for this word question. Shakespeare compares the Children of Pauls here meant to the Little Eyases of th ...
... n general.</para> <para>“We might say that there are twenty allusions in Shakespeare to the art </f. 227v><228>of penmanshif. And it is prett ...
... heir profession, </i>who are most talked about as having surpassed all others. Shakespeare uses <i>cry out on, </i>or <i>cry on, </i>nearly if not quite always ...
... force ('making them expert till they cry it up in <i>the top of question'</i>, Shakespeare Soc., 1842, p. 55) ; but this, like other phrases in the same work, ...
... these Children, who so berattled the common Stages. What greater Affront could Shakespeare put upon his Audience, than to suppose any of them were of such tame ...
... oclamation.'</para> <para></f. 242v><f. 243r>>part in the choir. Shakespeare alludes sarcastically to that. They sing now, when their voices are ...
... h pieces these children performed & what particular <small>passane</small>. Shakespeare aimed at.</para> <para>“The passage as it is printed in all t ...
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