It will be hard work, but a gain in the end. Student’s duty is to get to know the opinions and feelings of the folk amongst whom his author lived. _Sponsalia de futuro_ and _Sponsalia de praesenti_. Massinger’s “Maid of Honour” as an example. Changes in ideas and law relating to marriage. Especially in the case of dramatic poets. Difficulty in understanding our elder writers without a knowledge of their language and ideas. His works are so many windows, through which we see a glimpse of the world that was in him.”–T. “But I will say, of Shakspere’s works generally, that we have no full impress of him there, even as full as we have of many men. “We are too hasty when we set down our ancestors in the gross for fools for the monstrous inconsistencies (as they seem to us) involved in their creed of witchcraft.”–C. Shaw, for their kindness in reading the proof sheets, and suggesting emendations.
The writer’s best thanks are due to his friends Mr. The Shakspere references in the text are made to the Globe Edition. This Essay is an expansion, in accordance with a preconceived scheme, of two papers, one on “The Witches in Macbeth,” and the other on “The Demonology of Shakspere,” which were read before the New Shakspere Society in the years 18. An Essay in Illustration of the Belief in the Existence of Devils, and the Powers Possessed By Them, as It Was Generally Held during the Period of the Reformation, and the Times Immediately Succeeding with Special Reference to Shakspere and His Worksīarrister-at-Law, Honorary Treasurer of The New Shakspere Society
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