310 Ergebnisse - Zeige 241 von 260.

This early work by James Halliwell-Phillipps was originally published in 1841 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'An Introduction to Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream' is a work of literary criticism on one of Shakespeare's most famous plays. James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps was born on 21st June 1820, in London, England. Halliwell-Phillipps was privately educated at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he ...

This early work by James Halliwell-Phillipps was originally published in 1868 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'A Catalogue of a Small Portion of the Engravings and Drawings Illustrative of the Life of Shakespeare' is a list detailing artwork found at, Shakespeare's birthplace, New Place, and other sites in and around Stratford-Upon-Avon. James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps was born on 21st June 1820, in Lo...

This early work by James Halliwell-Phillipps was originally published in 1867 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'A List of Works Illustrative of the Life and Writings of Shakespeare, the History of Stratford-on-Avon, and the Rise and Progress of the Early English Drama' is a work on 'The Bard' and the the history of his home town. James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps was born on 21st June 1820, in London, Eng...

Excerpt from A List of Works: Illustrative of the Life and Writings of Shakespeare: The History of Stratford-on-Avon, and the Rise and Progress of the Early English DramaWhich are either too diffuse or too technical to be included in works prepared for the general public.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important hi...

Excerpt from Brief Notices of a Small Number of the Shakespeare Rarities That Are Preserved in the Rustic The engraving on the right is a proof copy of the Droeshout portrait of 1623, and is the only likeness of Shakespeare in existence which has come down to us in an original unaltered state. No other copy of the engraving in this reliable state has yet been discovered, the only ones in all other libraries being those taken from a retouched...

Excerpt from New Lamps or Old?: A Few Additional Words on the Momentous Question Respecting the E and the an in the Name of Our National Dramatist A few weeks ago, under the impression that it would be as well, if it were possible, that there should be uniformity in the printed orthography of the name of our national dramatist, I ventured to issue a little tentative pamphlet on the subject. The question was obviously an excessively trivial on...

Excerpt from New Lamps or Old?: A Few Additional Words on the Momentous Question Respecting the E and the an in the Name of Out National DramatistPreviously to opening a discussion of this kind it may be well to observe that, in treating a subject which involves a consideration of the usages of a remote age, it is essentially necessary to eliminate from our minds any in¿uence exercised by the knowledge of those of our own. This is especially n...

Excerpt from Notes of Family Excursions in North Wales: Taken Chiefly From Rhyl, Abergele, Llandudno, and Bangor What is it all to come? Is it necessary, because I take my family out for a few walks from some of the best known localities in Britain, that I should tell all the world, or by printing fancy that I tell all the world, about them? And the question may well be asked, considering that All the World and his wife go to all these places...

Excerpt from A Calendar of the Shakespearean Rarities, Drawings and Engravings Formerly Preserved at Hollingbury Copse, 1891 Since the preparation in 1887 of the first edition of this Calendar, which was printed for private circulation and for presents only, the literary and more especially the Shakespearean world, has had to deplore the loss of its highly-talented editor, the late J. O. Halliwell-Phillipps, Esq., F.R.S., &c., The deceased sc...

Excerpt from A Few Remarks on the Emendation, "Who Smothers Her With Painting, " in the Play of Cymbeline: Discovered by Mr. Collier, in a Corrected Copy of the Second Edition of ShakespeareThe Preface is both interesting and curious, from the additional information it gives respecting the Shakespeare Forgeries, containing also the substance of his Confessions.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and class...

Excerpt from Outlines of the Life of Shakespeare, Vol. 2W'ith the exception of the contractions there are few peculiarities in the Latin documents that invite special remark. There are only a few unimportant anomalies in the orthography, the main diversities consisting in the use of unclassical forms of the language and of what are termed, in an old legal vocabulary, words signifi cant and known to the sages of the law, but not allowed by gram...

Excerpt from Memoranda on the Tragedy of Hamlet The following pages contain merely a few straggling memoranda on the tragedy of Hamlet selected from a large number of notes made chiefly in years gone by, and now issued in the hope that they include suggestions which may be useful to future editors or critics. Had I consulted my own reputation, or now cared much for the slender credit attached to works on Shakespearean criticism, it would have...

Excerpt from A Brief List of Some of the Rarer and Most Curious Old-Book Rarities: In the Library of J. O. Halliwell, Esq., Illustrative Chiefly of Early English Popular Literature The drawer containing the books, noted rather than noticed in the following pages, may be called my little Pepysian. It includes more unique books than are to be found in the Capell collection, or in many a college library. With the Pepysian itself no library can b...

Excerpt from A Manifest Detection of the Most Vyle and Detestable Use of Dice Play Only two copies of the following Tract are known to exist. One of these was purchased by the late Mr. Heber, at Nassau's sale, for £7: 17: 6, and that collector, in a note on the fly-leaf, says, - "The present copy formerly belonged to Topham Beauclerk, (Cat. Lon. 1781, n. 4137), and I never saw or heard of another. It formed one of eight very curious old tract...

Excerpt from Rambles in Western Cornwall by the Footsteps of the Giants: With Notes on the Celtic Remains of the Land's End District and the Islands of Scilly I had never opened that singular and valuable folio volume, - Borlase's Antiquities of Cornwall, first published in 1754, and again, with a few additons, in 1769, - without feeling a curiosity and desire to examine the original monuments therein described, and to pay a visit to a land w...

Excerpt from Memoranda: On All's Well That Ends Well, the Two Gentlemen of Verona, Much Ado About Nothing, and on Titus Andronicus The main incidents of the serious portion of the present comedy were originally related in the Decameron of Boccaccio, in the ninth novel of the third day, a story which was known to Shakespeare through the medium of an English translation, first published in William Painter's Palace of Pleasure, in the year 1566,...

Excerpt from A Hand-List of the Drawings and Engravings Illustrative of the Life of Shakespeare, Preserved at Hollingbury Copse, Near Brighton It is very difficult to meet with pictorial illustrations of the Life of Shakespeare that belong to even a small antiquity. With the ex ception of two or three found in periodicals, and which are sufficiently common, any of the kind which were executed more than seventy years ago are of exceedingly rar...

Excerpt from The Metrical History of Tom Thumb the Little: As Issued Early in the Eighteenth Century, in Three Parts The earliest notice of the popular history of Tom Thumb, as known in England, occurs in Scot's Discoverie of Witchcraft, 1584, where he speaks of it as amongst the tales used by servants to frighten children withall. Tom Thumb is there spoken of in company with "changlings, incubus, Robin Good-fellow, the spoorne, the mare, the...

Excerpt from The Works of John Marston, Vol. 3 of 3: Reprinted From the Original Editions, With Notes, and Some Account of His Life and Writings About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the origin...

Excerpt from Memoranda on Love's Labour's Lost, King John, Othello, and on Romeo and Juliet The composition and structure of Love's Labour's Lost unquestionably lead to a supposition that the main incidents were taken from some old romantic story not yet discovered, and that the tale, whenever it may be found, will probably have been rightly conjectured to belong to the cycle of the lighter romances of chivalry. Douce is of opinion it was bor...