The Works of William Shakspeare Volume 8; Collated Verbatim with the Most Authentic Copies, and Revised, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1816 Excerpt: ...to act. Burtage makes one of the itudents repeat some lines of Weronymo and K. Richard III. Kempt iays to another, ' Now for you, --methinks you belong to my tuition; and your face methinks would be good for a foolish Mayor, or z/aolijh Jujlht of Peace."--And again: " Thou wilt do well in time if thou wilt be ruled by thy betters, that is, by myselfe, and such grave aldermen of the playhouse as I am."--It appears from Nashe's Apologie of fierce Penniless, I 593, that he likewise played the Cloivn: " What can be made of a roptmaker more than a cloivnt. Will. Kempe, 1 mistrust it will fall to thy lot fora merriment one of fhese dayeS." Malone. 3)--hy the rood. i. e. The cross. Pope. It appears from Heame, Fuller, and Blount, (as Mr. Reed has observed, ) that rood formerly signified also the image of Christ on the cross. Bullokar, however, is a better authority than any of these, being contemporary with Shakspeare. In the English Expositor, 8vo. 1616, he defines Roode thus: " In land it signifies a quarter of an acre. It is sometimes taken for the picture of our Saviour on the cross." Malone. (4)--Silence.' The oldest copy of this play was published in i6co. It must however have been acted somewhat earlier, as in Ben Jonson's Every Man out of his Humour, which was performed in 1599, 's tne lowing reference to it: " No, lady, this is a kinsman to Justice Silence." Sttevciu. Si/. Alas, a black ouzel, cousin Shallow. Sial. By yea and nay, sir, I dare fay, my cousin William is become a good scholar: He is at Oxford still, is he not? Sil. Indeed, sir; to my cost. Sim/. He must then to the inns of court shortly: I was once of Clement's-inn; where, I think, they will talk, of mad Shallow yet. Si/. You were call'd-lusty Shall...