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Contract Context Printing 160 characters of context... Expand Context ... an Emendation. Tho' I would not willingly presume too far, and consult what <i>Shakespeare should have written</i>, rather than what he <i>did really write</i> ...
... hat particular passage had been omitted; it would have crippled the play. . . . Shakespeare introduces this group of actors with a double purpose. First: the ma ...
... EL (1808, rpt. 1846, pp. 406-7): “As one example of the many niceties of Shakespeare which have never been understood, I may allude to the style in which ...
... ubject of much controversy among the commentators, whether this was borrowed by Shakespeare from himself or from another, and whether, in the praise of the piec ...
... roportion that generally theatrical elevation soars above simple nature. Hence Shakespeare has composed the play in Hamlet altogether in sententious rhymes ful ...
313) Commentary Note for line 1521:1521 So as a painted tirant Pirrhus stood... h supposes this to derive from <i>Dido</i>, II. i. 263. 'he stood alone still', Shakespeare having transformed the incident by placing 'Pyrrhus' pause' before i ...
... ?' <i>Hamlet </i>[(1598-9)]. Merely with a special view to mark a solemn pause Shakespeare writes: ‘So, as a painted tyrant Pyrrhus stood, And, like a ne ...
315) Commentary Note for lines 1527-8:1527 Doth rend the region, so after Pirrhus pause,1528 A rowsed vengeance sets him new a worke,... s the atmosphere was divided into three regions, upper, middle, and lower. By Shakespeare the word is used to denote the air generally. Compare Sonnet xxxii ...
... arts) of the Air, <i>Les trois</i> <i>regions de Vair</i>.' The word is used by Shakespeare in the general sense of the upper air in Son. xxxiii. 12: The <i>reg ...
... he atmosphere was divided into three regions-upper, middle, and lower.' Used by Shakespeare for the space of air, as in Romeo and Juliet, II. ii. 21.</para></cn ...
... </i> Ff. <i>Mars his</i>, but misprint <i>Armours</i>. <i>Eterne</i> is used by Shakespeare in Macbeth iii. 2. 38: But in them nature's copy's not <i>eterne.</i ...
317) Commentary Note for line 1537:1537 As lowe as to the fiends.... --the language of lyric vehemence and epic pomp, and not of the drama. But if Shakespeare had made the diction truly dramatic, where would have been the contr ...
... retch That ever lived, to make a mirror of' (<i>Gorboduc</i>, III. i. 14-15). Shakespeare in some famous stanzas in <i>Lucrece</i> had shown her 'staring on P ...
... em, read about instead of upon (the reading of Qq.); but it is past belief that Shakespeare should have made such a wretched jingle as ‘a clout about.' Q. ...
320) Commentary Note for line 1608:1608 Like Iohn-a-dreames, vnpregnant of my cause,... -dreams, is in Armin's ‘Nest of Ninnies,' 1608, recently reprinted by the Shakespeare Society, where at p. 49 the following passage occurs: ‘His nam ...
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