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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1905. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... NOTES The present edition includes whatever has been considered of value in the notes of preceding editions. It has been the intention in all cases to acknowledge facts and suggestions borrowed from such sources, whether quoted verbatim, abridged, or developed. Notes signed W. are from Whalley, G. from Gifford, C. from Cunningham. For other abbreviations the Bibliography should be consulted. Explanations of words and phrases are usually found only in the Glossary. References to this play are by act, scene, and line of the Text; other plays of Jonson are cited from the GiffordCunningham edition of 1875. The references are to play, volume and page. TITLE-PAGE. THE DIUELL IS AN ASSE. 'Schlegel, seizing with great felicity upon an untranslateable German idiom, called the play Der dumme Teufel [Schlegel's Werke, ed. Bocking, 6. 340]--a title which must be allowed to be twice as good as that of the English original. The phrase 'the Devil is an ass' appears to have been proverbial. See Fletcher's The Chances, Act 5. Sc. 2: Dost thou think The devil such an ass as people make him?' --Ward, Eng. Drama 2. 372. A still more important passage occurs in Dekker's // this be not a good Play, a partial source of Jonson's drama: Scu. Sweete.breads I hold my life, that diuels an asse. --Dekker, Wks. 3. 328. Jonson uses it again in The Staple of News, Wks. 5. 188: The conjurer cozened him with a candle's end; he was an ass. Dekker (Non-dram. Wks. 2. 275) tells us the jest of a citizen who was told that the 'Lawyers get the Diuell and all: What an Asse, replied the Citizen is the diuell? If I were as he I would get some of them.' HIS MAIESTIES SERVANTS. Otherwise known as the King's Company, and popularly spoken of as the King's Men. For an account of this company see Winter, ed. S...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781235026287
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Edition: Abridged edition
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 222 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1235026280
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 116
  • Spine Width: 6 mm
  • Width: 189 mm


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