...the dead to procure his orphans guardians, without ambition otherwise of selfe-profit, only to keepe the memory of so worthy a friend and fellow alive, as was our Shakespeare, by humble ofier of his playes to your most noble patronage.' An address ' to the great variety of readers,' signed...

...since about 1594, and in 1623 Heminges and Condell brought out the First Folio edition of his plays "without ambition either of self-profit, or fame;...friend, and fellow alive, as was our Shakespeare." Men of Shakespeare's age had a very different set of values from our own. Plays written for the public...

...for eighteen of his thirty-six dramas. 'We have but collected them,' they say, ' and done an office to the dead to procure his orphans guardians, without...a friend and fellow alive as was our Shakespeare.' Fellow implies that they were players — Heminge a poor one, ' Stuttering Hemmings ' he is called...

...and tragedies which Shakespeare's old acting colleagues gathered together in a handsome Folio volume "to keep the memory of so worthy a friend and fellow alive, as was our Shakespeare" — when those plays are reaching greater numbers of spectators, by far, than ever before. An artist's...

...attitude was that of members of a family - affectionate: We have but collected them and done to an office to the dead to procure his orphans, guardians; without ambition either of self profit or fame: only to keep the memory of so worthy a Friend, and Fellow, alive as was our Shakespeare...

...since about 1594, and in 1623 Heminges and Condell brought out the First Folio edition of his plays, "without ambition either of self-profit, or fame;...friend, and fellow alive, as was our Shakespeare." Men of Shakespeare's age had a very different set of values from our own. Plays written for the public...

...thirty-seventh) [Barnet, xvii] in the First Folio. Heminges and Condell published the plays, they said, "only to keep the memory of so worthy a friend and fellow alive as was our Shakespeare" [Chute, 133]. Theater scripts were not regarded as literary works of art, but only the basis for the...

...collected them, and done an office to the dead, to procure his orphans guardians; without ambition cither eign passages; and in the end, Having my freedom,...All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a toe have justly observed no man to come near your LL but with a kind of religious address, it hath...

....', and Heminges and Condell declared that they collected the plays in the First Folio 'without any ambition either of self-profit, or fame: only to keep...a friend and fellow alive as was our Shakespeare'. Compare 'Our pleasant Willy', 'that same gentle spirit' (lines 10, 19). (4) Spenser distinguished between...

...'guardians' , Heminges and Condell pleaded: We have but collected them, and done an office to the dead . . . without ambition either of self-profit, or fame: only...a friend and fellow alive, as was our Shakespeare. Then, turning their attention to 'the great variety of readers' they went on: It had been a thing,...