 | Charlotte Carmichael Stopes - 1889 - 296 pàgines
...asked to be yours. . . . We have collected them and done an office to the dead to procure his orphanes guardians ; without ambition either of self-profit...only to keep the memory of so worthy a friend and fellowe alive, as was our Shakspere, by humble offer of his playes, to your most noble patronage. .... | |
 | James G. McManaway - 1994 - 64 pàgines
...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;...of so worthy a 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... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - 1896 - 876 pàgines
...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...of so worthy a friend and fellow alive as was our Shakespeare.' Fellow implies that they were players — Heminge a poor one, ' Stuttering Hemmings '... | |
 | Muriel Clara Bradbrook - 1989 - 238 pàgines
...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 . . . It was the height of their care, they continued, to make the present worthy by perfection.... | |
 | Ronald L. Dotterer - 1989 - 252 pàgines
...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.... | |
 | James G. McManaway - 1990 - 442 pàgines
...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;...of so worthy a 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... | |
 | Joanne Miller - 2013 - 98 pàgines
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1996 - 1290 pàgines
...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, boast of nothing else But that I was a journey SHAKESPEARE, by humble offer of his plays to your most noble patronage. Wherein, as toe have justly... | |
 | E. A. J. Honigmann - 1998 - 202 pàgines
....', 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...of so worthy a friend and fellow alive as was our Shakespeare'. Compare 'Our pleasant Willy', 'that same gentle spirit' (lines 10, 19). (4) Spenser distinguished... | |
 | Ian Wilson - 1999 - 564 pàgines
...'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...of so worthy 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... | |
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We have but collected them, and done 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, by humble offer of his... 
