Category: Plays/Films/Dramas
I have found it convenient, especially in Appendix A, to use the symbol < following a date, to indicate an uncertain date not earlier than that named, and the symbol > followed by a date, to indicate an uncertain date not later than that named. Thus 1903 <> 23 would indicate t...
I have found it convenient, especially in Appendix A, to use the symbol < following a date, to indicate an uncertain date not earlier than that named, and the symbol > followed...
3. i. 18), outside which a page is posted, and open enough for Apellesto carry on dialogue with Campaspe (III. iii.; IV. iv), while he paints her within. These three _domus_ are quite certainly all visible together, as continuous action can pass f...
4. iii. 95), but these are bed-curtains, and the drawing of them does notput Sapho’s chamber in or out of action. As in _Campaspe_, there is interplay between house and house. A long continuous stretch of action, not even broken by the act-intervals,...
5. ii. 45) she gets tired of waiting, and without leaving the stage,advances to the chamber and says, ‘How now, in Saphoes lap?’ There is not the same interplay between the city houses and Sibylla’s cave, to which the last scene of the play retu...
6. Act II of _Romeo and Juliet_ Romeo pretty clearly comes in with hisfriends in some public place of the city, and then leaps a wall into an orchard, where he is lost to their sight, and finds himself under Juliet’s window. He must have a wall to...
7. BOOK V[_Bibliographical Note._--The records of the Stationers’ Company were utilized by W. Herbert in _Typographical Antiquities_ (1785–90), based on an earlier edition (1749) by J. A...
8. Part i, 4 vols.; Part ii, 2 vols. [Part i is based onCollier’s _Shakespeare’s Library_ (1844). Part ii, based on the collections of 1779 and 1841–53, adds the dramatic sources, Warner’s _Menaechmi_, _True Tragedie of Richard III_,...
9. i. 196, suggests that this is the play by Fletcher, Field, Massinger,and Daborne which is the subject of some of Henslowe’s correspondence and was finally delivered on 5 Aug. 1613 (Greg, _Henslowe Papers_, 65, 90). Attempts to combine this indica...
10. i. 59, Stoll, and Parrott all arrive at 1604 for the date, which isrendered probable by allusions to the Jacobean knights (I. i. 263; IV. ii. 77), to the calling in of monopolies (I. i. 284), to the preparation of costly embassies (IV. ii. 114)...
11. Part II, ‘The Tragedie of Charles Duke of Byron. By George Chapman.There can be no doubt (cf. vol. ii, p. 53) that this is the play denounced by the French ambassador, Antoine Lefèvre de la Boderie, in the following letter to Pierre Brulart de...
12. Part 1 with Heywood, Dec. 1602–Jan. 1603; one payment had been made toThe best account of Churchyard is that by H. W. Adnitt in _Shropshire Arch. Soc. Trans._ iii (1880), 1, with a bibliography of his numerous poems. For his share in the devices o...
13. viii. 4, 40, 52) that this only meant fellow servant of the Queen isnot plausible; this relation would have been expressed by ‘fellow’. He had a house in Old Street, but kept up his Somerset connexion, and was buried at Beckington, where he had...
14. v. 20; Law, 9):‘We shall have a merry Christmas at Hampton Court, for both male and female maskes are all ready bespoken, whereof the Duke [of Lennox] is _rector chori_ of th’ one side and the...
15. ii. 74), and for the Chapel children when these were established atBlackfriars in 1600, but also by a quarrel with Gabriel Spencer, whose death at his hands during a duel with swords in Hoxton Fields on 22 Sept. 1598 was ‘harde & heavey’ news t...
16. cxxv. Ingram, 281, speaks of two 4tos and one 8vo of 1590, probably_Editions_ by A. Wagner (1885) and K. Vollmöller (1885) and of Part i by W. A. Neilson (1911, _C. E. D._).--_Dissertations_: C. H. Herford, _The Sources of M.’s T._ (_Academy_,...
17. iv. 1, Bellamont is writing a tragedy of Astyanax, which he will have[46] The plan is in J. A. Du Cerceau, _Les Plus Excellens Bastimens de France_ (1576–9), and is reproduced in W. H. Ward, _French Châteaux and Gardens in the Sixteenth Century_,...
18. xxi. 2019, hasIs the third line really a s.d., in which case it does not suggest realistic staging, or a misunderstood line of the speech, really meant to run, ‘Supposed the Temple of great M...