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General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1860 Original Publisher: Longman Subjects: Drama / Shakespeare Literary Criticism / Shakespeare Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: COMEDY OF ERRORS. One can only surmise whether, in the following passage, Egeon refers to the faintness which attends the period of quickening, or to the exhaustion of parturition. If to the former, it is remarkable that the time mentioned, 'not six months', is made to correspond with the proper time for the physiological event. Drew me from kind embracements of my spouse: From whom my absence was not six months old, Before herself (almost at fainting under The pleasing punishment that women bear, ) Had made provision for her following me, And soon, and safe, arrived where I was. There she had not been long, but she became A joyful mother of two goodly sons. Act i., Scene 1. Are the articles mentioned by Dromio of Syracuse part of the medical stores of the ship which is in her trim, and ready to sail ? Our fraughtage, Sir, I have convey'd aboard; and I have bought The oil, the balsamum, and aqua-vitae. Act iv., Scene 1. The following use of the word ' illusion, ' as applied to a deception of the senses, in which one thing is mistaken for another, is strictly in accordance with its modern scientific use. Shakespeare, however, does not use the words ' delusion' and ' hallucination' by which the narrow sense of ' illusion' is now complemented. Antipholus S. The fellow is distract, and so am I; And hero we wander in illusions. Act w., Scene 3. The facial expression of mania, sharp-featured, fiery-eyed, pale and haggard, is correctly touched on, even by the conjuror and the co...

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