Category: Essays, Letters & Speeches
criticism he argues for inserting the words “and Cassiopeia.” The probability is that if Warburton had not condemned the proposal it would have appeared in Theobald’s edition. “With a just deference to your most convincing reasons,” says Theobald, “I shall with great cheerfuln...
I come now to the main Argument, which some People urge to prove that _Shakespear_ was conversant with the Ancients. For there is, say they, among _Shakespear_’s Plays, one call...
1. Chapter 1criticism he argues for inserting the words “and Cassiopeia.” The probability is that if Warburton had not condemned the proposal it would have appeared in Theobald’s edition. “...
5. Chapter 559. _led into the Buttery of the Steward._ “Mr. Pope probably recollected the following lines in _The Taming of the Shrew_, spoken by a Lord, who is giving directions to his ser...
6. Chapter 6_Heywood_, in the _Apology for Actors_, 1612, alluded to above; see Hawkins’s _Origin of the English Drama_, 1773, ii., p. 3, and Boas’s _Works of Kyd_, 1901, pp. xiii, civ, and...
3. Chapter 3Upon the Encouragement I have receiv’d from you, I shall proceed to shew under what Disadvantages _Shakespear_ lay for want of being conversant with the Ancients. But because I...
2. Chapter 2I here send you the Tragedy of _Coriolanus_, which I have alter’d from the Original of _Shakespear_, and with it a short Account of the Genius and Writings of that Author, both...