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...er than torchlight, soft-girl, dabbler in poetry, dreamer, lovely singer. Plays lyre and flute equally well. Adores games, trees, flowers, swimming,... ... have watched the King play tennis: they are having a tournament. Francis plays with ugly ferocity. His partners play warily. I see that diplomacy b... ... have to come back, Will! I’ll find you a patron. Now’s the time to write plays... I’ll help you put them on the stage.” I told him I was afraid of ... ...ackstage table, his plumed hat and red gloves flung on top of a litter of plays. He and Ben discussed a masque Jonson was to produce. Young as I wa... ...and lived in a shanty by the sea. He would have roared at his role in my plays: he would have objected to his cowardice, upheld his zeal, begged me... ...rs this morning. Raleigh’s is hard to decipher: Portsmouth March 9, 1608 Will Shakespear— We have taken an old carrack, the Madre de Dios...

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...nity University. TIMON OF ATHENS By William Shakespeare (written about 1607 1608) DRAMATIS PERSONAE TIMON: of Athens. LUCIUS, LUCULLUS & SEMPRONIUS ... ...ight denial, nor then silenced when— ‘Commend me to your master’—and the cap Plays in the right hand, thus: but tell him, My uses cry to me, I must s...

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...niversity. 3 PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE By William Shakespeare (written about 1608) RAMATIS PERSONAE ANTIOCHUS: king of Antioch. PERICLES: prince of ... ...e ones: I can compare our rich misers to nothing so fitly as to a whale; a’ plays and tumbles, driving the poor fry before him, and at last devours t...

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...ructive. Shelton’s, the first in any language, was made, apparently, about 1608, but not published till 1612. This of course was only the First Part. ... ...for a congenial employment. In about three years he wrote twenty or thirty plays, which he tells us were per- formed without any throwing of cucumbers... ...r course without any hisses, outcries, or disturbance. In other words, his plays were not bad enough to be hissed off the stage, but not good enough t... ...it necessary to meet the demand by a third edition, the seventh in all, in 1608. The popularity of the book in Italy was such that a Milan bookseller ... ... – Part I the managers might say could persuade him that the merits of his plays would not be recognised at last if they were only given a fair chance... ...he envy of all nations; he was to drive from the stage the silly, childish plays, the “mirrors of nonsense and models of folly” that were in vogue thr... ...specimen of an insipid class of romance, 26 Don Quixote – Part I and some plays which manifestly did not comply with the primary condition of pleasin...

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...................................................... 494 MILTON—DECEMBER 9, 1608: DECEMBER 9, 1908....................................................... ...served the inebriate’s track At night when he has quitted the inn-sign: He plays diversions on the homeward line, Still that way bent albeit his legs ... .... They shouted, running on from tree to tree, And played the game the wind plays, on and round. ’T was visible invisible glee Pursuing; and a fountain... ... of loss or gain; Not he who is bare to his doom; For whom never semblance plays T o bewitch, overcloud, illume. The dusty mote-images rose; Sheer fil... ... the spots of the confessed, To veil them. None of women, save their vile, Plays traitor to an army in the field. 356 The cries most vindicating most... ...we win Clear hearing of the simple lute, Whereon, and not on other, Memory plays For them who can in quietness receive Her restorative airs: a ditty ... ...evealed, Where on to the Alps the muteness passed. 495 MILTON—DECEMBER 9, 1608: DECEM- BER 9, 1908 What splendour of imperial station man, The T ree...

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...ctive. Shelton’s, the first in any language, was made, appar- ently, about 1608, but not published till 1612. This of course was only the First Part. ... ...for a congenial employment. In about three years he wrote twenty or thirty plays, which he tells us were per- formed without any throwing of cucumbers... ...r course without any hisses, outcries, or disturbance. In other words, his plays were not bad enough to be hissed off the stage, but not good enough t... ...it necessary to meet the demand by a third edition, the seventh in all, in 1608. The popularity of the book in Italy was such that a Milan bookseller ... ...hing that the managers might say could persuade him that the merits of his plays would not be recognised at last if they were only given a fair chance... ...he envy of all nations; he was to drive from the stage the silly, childish plays, the “mirrors of nonsense and models of folly” that were in vogue thr... ...had written a medio- cre specimen of an insipid class of romance, and some plays which manifestly did not comply with the primary condition of pleasin...

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...ctionary (quarto edition). The abbreviations of the names of Shakespeare’s plays will be readily understood. The line-numbers are those of the “Globe”... ...stranged, and manhood’s thorny ways. What transport, to retrace our boyish plays, Our easy bliss, when each thing joy supplied; The woods, the mountai... ... 657. Shred. Cut off; a sense now obsolete. Cf. Withal’s Dic- tionary (ed. 1608): “The superfluous and wast sprigs of vines, being cut and shreaded of...

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...lly from reading him, but from witnessing the court representations of his plays at Whitehall. Afterwards we know that he made Shakspeare his closet c... ...st. Y et even in excuse for them much may be said. The very length of some plays compelled them to make alterations. The best of Shakspeare’s dramas, ... ...e one against his popularity. We answer, that, considering the bulk of his plays collectively, the editions were not few. Compared with any known case... ... a vagabond. The same degrading appreciation attached both to the actor in plays and to their author. The contemp- tuous appellation of “play-book,” s... ...T wo Gentlemen of Verona; the least characteristi- cally marked of all his plays, and, with the exception of Love’s Labors Lost, the least interesting... ...on July 11, 1640. They had one child, a daughter, named Elizabeth, born in 1608, married April 22, 1626, to Thomas Nashe, Esq., left a widow in 1647, ... ... 1607 1607 30. Antony and Cleopatra, 1608 1608 31. Coriolanus, ...

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...Archibald (‘in Gallowfarren’), killed with shots of pistols and hagbuts in 1608. Three violent deaths in about seventy years, against which we can onl... ...f the floating light, and, hav- ing a taste for music, dancing, and acting plays, he contrib- uted much to the amusement of the ship’s company in thei...

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... people of the Sieur de Monts, ascended some fifty leagues up the St. John in 1608, found the fish so plenty, “qu’en mettant la chaudi` ere sur le feu i... ...ass of peat. At the extreme North, the voyagers are obliged to dance and act plays for employment. Perhaps our own woods and fields, — in the best wood...

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...n sixteen and twenty-two years from, the period which we have now reached (1608.) 93 Thomas de Quincey for her guidance in duties so new. Certainly s... ...s are shaken from a lion’s mane. And thus in fact the mysterious architect plays at hide-and-seek with his worlds. ‘I will hide it,’ he says, ‘and it ...