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Identifier: dramaticworksofw02inshak (find matches)
Title: The dramatic works of William Shakspeare, illustrated : embracing a life of the poet, and notes, original and selected
Year: 1850 (1850s)
Authors: Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 Peabody, Oliver William Bourn, 1799-1848 Singer, Samuel Weller, 1783-1858 Symmons, Charles, 1749-1826 Collier, John Payne, 1789-1883
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Publisher: Boston : Phillips, Sampson and Co.
Contributing Library: Lincoln Financial Foundation Collection
Digitizing Sponsor: The Institute of Museum and Library Services through an Indiana State Library LSTA Grant

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sure, you are not satisfiedOf these events at fall. Let us go in ;And charge us there upon intergatories.And we will answer all things faithfully. Gra. Let it be so. The first intergatoryThat my Nerissa shall be sworn on, is.Whether till the next night she had rather stay,Or go to bed now, being two hours to day;But were the day come, I should wish it dark.That I were couching with the doctors clerk.Well, while I live, Ill fear no other thingSo sore, as keeping safe Nerissas ring. (^Exeunt. 252 Of tlie Merchant of Venice the style is even and easy, with few pe-culiarities of diction, or anomalies of construction. The comic partraises laughter, and tlie serious fixes expectation. The probability ofeither one or the other story cannot be maintained. The union of t^roactions in one event is in this drama eminently happy. Dryden was muchpleased with his own address in connecting- the two plots of his Span-ish Friar, which yet. 1 believe, the critic will find excelled by this play. Johnson
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■-•«s jt \,, ,^ ^^/v**- n\ r.-ja// /u. uA^. AS YOV I.IKlilTArt 1 S. .. 253 AS YOU LIKE IT. PRELIMINARY REMARKS. Dr. Gret and Mr. Upton asserted that this play was certainly borrowedfrom the Cokes Tale of Gamelyn, printed in Urrys Chaucer; but it ishardly likely that Shakspeare saw that in manuscript, and there is a moreobvious source from whence he derived his plot, viz. the pastoral romanceof Rosalynde, or Euphues Golden Legacy, by Thomas Lodge, firstprinted in 1590. From this he has sketched his principal characters, andconstructed his plot; but those admirable beings, the melancholy Jaques,the witty Touchstone, and his Audrey, are of the poets own creation.Lodges novel is one of those tiresome (I had almost said unnatural) pas-toral romances, of which the Euphues of Lyly and the Arcadia of Sidneywere also popular examples. It has, however, the redeeming merit ofsome very beautiful verses interspersed; * and the circumstance of its hav- * The following beautiful stanzas are par

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