Illustrations of Shakespeare and of Ancient Manners: With Dissertations on the Clowns and Fools of Shakespeare ; on the Collection of Popular Tales Entitled Gesta Romanorum, and on the English Morris DanceT. Tegg, 1839 - 631 pàgines |
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... Ritson produces a quotation from Nashe's Life of Jacke Wilton , who lived in the reign of Henry the Eighth , to show that rapiers were used at that period . This sort of evidence might appear , on a first view , inadmissible , on the ...
... Ritson produces a quotation from Nashe's Life of Jacke Wilton , who lived in the reign of Henry the Eighth , to show that rapiers were used at that period . This sort of evidence might appear , on a first view , inadmissible , on the ...
Pàgina 50
... Ritson in the preceding note . The incident in the present scene , of Falstaff's threshing in the habit of a woman , might have been suggested by the story of the beaten and contented cuckold in Boccaccio's Decameron , day 7. ver . 7 ...
... Ritson in the preceding note . The incident in the present scene , of Falstaff's threshing in the habit of a woman , might have been suggested by the story of the beaten and contented cuckold in Boccaccio's Decameron , day 7. ver . 7 ...
Pàgina 55
... Ritson maintains that " it is a very gross mistake to imagine that this character ( i . e . our clown's ) was habited like an idiot . ” Now it is very certain , that although the idiot fools were generally dressed in petticoats , the ...
... Ritson maintains that " it is a very gross mistake to imagine that this character ( i . e . our clown's ) was habited like an idiot . ” Now it is very certain , that although the idiot fools were generally dressed in petticoats , the ...
Pàgina 57
... Ritson having with great probability supplied the whole direction of the letter , there seems to be no foundation left for Blackstone's conjecture . Malvolio had no motive for any coarse allusion . With respect to the instance of the ...
... Ritson having with great probability supplied the whole direction of the letter , there seems to be no foundation left for Blackstone's conjecture . Malvolio had no motive for any coarse allusion . With respect to the instance of the ...
Pàgina 74
... Ritson has asserted that he has neither coxcomb nor bauble , deducing his argument from the want of any allusion to them . Yet such an omission may be a very fallacious guide in judging of the habit of this character on the stage . It ...
... Ritson has asserted that he has neither coxcomb nor bauble , deducing his argument from the want of any allusion to them . Yet such an omission may be a very fallacious guide in judging of the habit of this character on the stage . It ...
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