Books and BipedsArgus Books, 1947 - 258 pages "In a word, 'Books and Bipeds' is for the most part a selection of paragraphs from my weekly book column in the "Chicago Sunday Tribune'..." -- foreword. |
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Page 49
... play , is called by its old English name of Argier . There are also references to Tunis and old Carthage . With a little ingenuity , it should be possible to read a brand new allegory into the action , and credit Shakespeare with ...
... play , is called by its old English name of Argier . There are also references to Tunis and old Carthage . With a little ingenuity , it should be possible to read a brand new allegory into the action , and credit Shakespeare with ...
Page 103
... play un- questionably is the voice of Woollcott , but the legs are the legs of Shaw . I think Kaufman and / or Hart read the libel in Woollcott's book , or in an earlier magazine appearance , realized how miraculously it might be made ...
... play un- questionably is the voice of Woollcott , but the legs are the legs of Shaw . I think Kaufman and / or Hart read the libel in Woollcott's book , or in an earlier magazine appearance , realized how miraculously it might be made ...
Page 264
... Plays Long and Short The longest play ever published , according to the catalogue of a London bookseller , is The Spanish Bawd Represented in Celestina ; or The Tragicke- Comedy of Calisto and Melibea , " a copy of which in folio , old ...
... Plays Long and Short The longest play ever published , according to the catalogue of a London bookseller , is The Spanish Bawd Represented in Celestina ; or The Tragicke- Comedy of Calisto and Melibea , " a copy of which in folio , old ...
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