The Taming of the ShrewClarendon Press, 1982 - 248 pages The introduction offers a full and original consideration fo th play's textual problems, a study of sources, a survey of scholarship and criticism, with the editor's own critical appreciation, and a study of the comedy's fortunes in the theatre. |
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Page 20
... lines from his plays are common in ' Bad Quartos ' , and the latest count would estimate some seventeen or eighteen passages from his work in A Shrew . ) Duthie also pointed out that ' ease ' is most ineptly used in the third line of ...
... lines from his plays are common in ' Bad Quartos ' , and the latest count would estimate some seventeen or eighteen passages from his work in A Shrew . ) Duthie also pointed out that ' ease ' is most ineptly used in the third line of ...
Page 22
... lines ( interestingly , among the Shakespearian Bad Quartos only The Merry Wives of Windsor , which may be a parallel in other ways , is shorter - about 1420 lines ; the extremely corrupt Marlowe tragedy The Massacre at Paris has about ...
... lines ( interestingly , among the Shakespearian Bad Quartos only The Merry Wives of Windsor , which may be a parallel in other ways , is shorter - about 1420 lines ; the extremely corrupt Marlowe tragedy The Massacre at Paris has about ...
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... lines are not continuous but are broken up with others - complete or half - lines or even prose ; and if an editor's head spins , endeavouring to decide which is which , it may be because Shakespeare is trying out occasional rhymed ...
... lines are not continuous but are broken up with others - complete or half - lines or even prose ; and if an editor's head spins , endeavouring to decide which is which , it may be because Shakespeare is trying out occasional rhymed ...
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