A Chapter in the Early Life of Shakespeare: Polesworth in ArdenThe University Press, 1926 - 122 Seiten |
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A Chapter in the Early Life of Shakespeare: Polesworth in Arden Arthur Gray Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 1926 |
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acquaintance actor addressed allusion Andronicus Arden Aubrey Avon born Cambridge Camden Charlecote church Clifton Chambers contemporary Cotswold Hills Coventry Davenant Daventry death Dickens Donne doubt dramatist Drayton Earl of Southampton early England evidence Falstaff father Folio Francis Francis Goodere gatehouse genius gentle Gentlemen Gloucestershire Hamlet Henry Goodere Holofernes John Shakespeare Jonson Lady lived London Lord Love's Labour's Lost Marlowe married master mentioned Merry Wives Michael Drayton Midsummer Night's Dream monastic Nuneaton Nunnery person Philemon Holland plays poet poetry Polesworth POLESWORTH ABBEY Polesworth Hall Polesworth parish Pooley Hall printed probably Quarto road says scene Shake Shallow shire Shrew Sir Henry Goodere Sir Sidney Lee Sir Thomas Cokain Sonnets speare speare's stage story Stratford school suggested supposed Sutton Coldfield Tamworth Thomas Lucy thou tion Titus Titus Andronicus town tutor Venus verses vicarage Warwick Warwickshire William William Shakespeare Wincot writes wrote
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Seite 112 - Jeronimo" or "Andronicus" are the best plays yet, shall pass unexcepted at here, as a man whose judgment shows it is constant, and hath stood still these five and twenty or thirty years.
Seite 55 - Camden, most reverend head, to whom I owe All that I am in arts, all that I know, (How nothing's that?) to whom my country owes The great renown, and name wherewith she goes.
Seite 20 - He had, by a misfortune common enough to young fellows, fallen into ill company ; and amongst them, some that made a frequent practice of deer-stealing, engaged him more than once in robbing a park that belonged to Sir Thomas Lucy, of Charlecote, near Stratford. For this he was prosecuted by that gentleman, as he thought, somewhat too severely ; and in order to revenge that ill usage, he made a ballad upon him.
Seite 41 - What a fool, quoth he, am I, thus to lie in a stinking Dungeon, when I may as well walk at liberty ! I have a Key in my bosom called Promise, that will, I am persuaded, open any Lock in Doubting Castle.
Seite 32 - His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!
Seite 18 - He was much given to all unluckinesse, in stealing venison and rabbits ; particularly from Sir Lucy, who had him oft whipt, and sometimes imprisoned, and at last, made him fly his native country, to his great advancement.
Seite 20 - And though this, probably the first essay of his poetry, be lost, yet it is said to have been so very bitter, that it redoubled the prosecution against him to that degree, that he was obliged to leave his business and family in Warwickshire, for some time, and shelter himself in London.
Seite 27 - To OUR ENGLISH TERENCE, Mr. WILL. SHAKESPEARE. " Some say, good Will., which I, in sport, do sing, Hadst thou not played some kingly parts in sport, Thou had'st been a companion for a king, And been a king among the meaner sort.
Seite 31 - Muses' anvil; turn the same (And himself with it) that he thinks to frame, Or, for the laurel, he may gain a scorn; For a good poet's made, as well as born. And such wert thou! Look how the father's face Lives in his issue, even so the race Of Shakespeare's mind and manners brightly shines In his...
Seite 26 - This is a gift that I have, simple, simple ; a foolish extravagant spirit, full of forms, figures, shapes, objects, ideas, apprehensions, motions, revolutions : these are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater, and delivered upon the mellowing of occasion : But the gift is good in those in whom it is acute, and I am thankful for it Nath.