The Elizabethan Dramatists as CriticsGreenwood Press, 1968 - 420 pages Examines Elizabethan dramatists’ reflected and criticized their own art. |
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... Nash's Will Summer's Last Will and Testament ( 1592 ) Bacchus himself proclaims the inspiring potency of his beverage : Give a scholar wine going to his book , or being about to invent , it sets a new point on his wit ; it glazeth it ...
... Nash's Will Summer's Last Will and Testament ( 1592 ) Bacchus himself proclaims the inspiring potency of his beverage : Give a scholar wine going to his book , or being about to invent , it sets a new point on his wit ; it glazeth it ...
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... Nash , in The Anatomy of Absurdity ( 1589 ) , describes poetry as a more hidden and divine kind of philosophy , enwrapped in blind fables and dark stories , wherein the principles of more ex- cellent arts and moral precepts . . . are ...
... Nash , in The Anatomy of Absurdity ( 1589 ) , describes poetry as a more hidden and divine kind of philosophy , enwrapped in blind fables and dark stories , wherein the principles of more ex- cellent arts and moral precepts . . . are ...
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... Nash . Will Summer's Last Will and Testament ( 1592 ) . Prol .: as it is the nature of the serpent to hiss , so ... Nash's attitude was not one of blind prejudice is 178 Contempt for the Judgment of the Masses.
... Nash . Will Summer's Last Will and Testament ( 1592 ) . Prol .: as it is the nature of the serpent to hiss , so ... Nash's attitude was not one of blind prejudice is 178 Contempt for the Judgment of the Masses.
Contents
APPLIED CRITICISM | 1 |
EXCLUSIVE OF SHAKESPEARE AND JONSON | 18 |
SHAKESPEARE | 243 |
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