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... Alexander the Great . He appears in the show of the Nine Worthies in L.L.L. as ' the world's commander ' , imperso- nating whom Sir Nathaniel the curate is ' a little o'er - parted ' . Henry V before Harfleur , with an unexpectedly ...
... Alexander the Great . He appears in the show of the Nine Worthies in L.L.L. as ' the world's commander ' , imperso- nating whom Sir Nathaniel the curate is ' a little o'er - parted ' . Henry V before Harfleur , with an unexpectedly ...
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... Alexander till he find it stopping a bung - hole ' . But the Prince expatiates further on this grim theme , and with Alexander he couples imperious Caesar in such a sordid anti - climax to their living greatness . Let us with Hamlet ...
... Alexander till he find it stopping a bung - hole ' . But the Prince expatiates further on this grim theme , and with Alexander he couples imperious Caesar in such a sordid anti - climax to their living greatness . Let us with Hamlet ...
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... Alexander and Caesar among men . And here again I would submit that the acid test of the quality of Shakespeare's hu- manism is to be found not in the Roman history plays or Troilus and Cressida but in the galaxy of allusions scattered ...
... Alexander and Caesar among men . And here again I would submit that the acid test of the quality of Shakespeare's hu- manism is to be found not in the Roman history plays or Troilus and Cressida but in the galaxy of allusions scattered ...
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Achilles Ajax Alcides Alexander allusion by Shakespeare Althaea Amores Anchises ANNUAL SHAKESPEARE LECTURE Antony Apollo Armado avowed fool Bassanio Benedick Berowne Britain BRITISH ACADEMY Brutus bull Caes Carthage Cassibelan Cassius chamber of Lucrece Cleopatra Cress cries Cupid Cymbeline declares deities Dido echo episode Europa eyes F. S. BOAS Falstaff figures flight of Aeneas ghost gods Greek Hamlet Hector Hecuba Hercules Hermia hero Heroïdes Holofernes husband imperious Caesar Jove Julius Caesar Jupiter king Latin Leander legendary Lichas lord Lucrece's Marlowe's medieval Metamorphoses Nestor night Nine Worthies Octavius Olympian Ovid Phaethon Phoebus player's recital Pompey Pompey's Portia Priam Prince Pyramus and Thisbe Pyrrhus references Roman history plays Rome Rosalind Shake SHAKESPEARE BY F. S. Sinon speare's Tarquin Tempest masque thee Thersites Thisbe thou Timon of Athens tribute Troilus and Cressida Troy Tunis valour Venus and Adonis Virgil Volumnia Worthies in L.L.L.