weaker
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weaker the weaker vessel a wife, a female partner; originally in allusion to 1 Peter.
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weakest.
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For Continental Bank chairman Theobald, brighter profits translate to brighter office
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 10/5/1988; ; 700+ words
; ...Continental Chairman Thomas Theobald vowed during an interview this...Continental. Tantalizingly, Theobald last week said he would be...the office refurbishment and Theobald's mid-summer vow. "Renovation...cotton sweatsuit like Carl Lewis wore during the Olympics retails...
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The Double Falshood and The Spanish Curate: a further Fletcher connection.(John Fletcher)(authorship of the play Double Falshood; or, The Distrest Lovers)(Critical essay)
Magazine article from: ANQ; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; In 1727, Lewis Theobald declared that he had discovered a lost...the play was partially or entirely by Theobald himself. (1) Comparatively little...Double Falshood, so we can rule out Theobald having confused a Fletcher and Massinger...
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Dramatic License With no script to follow, Shakespeare scholar Stephen Greenblattlearned to improvise: He co-wrote a comedyinspired by the Bard's notorious lost play, `Cardenio'
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 5/11/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...controversial Shakespeare editor named Lewis Theobald produced a play he titled "Double...century audience. If you believe Theobald, he was writing from the original Shakespeare play. But. "Theobald had many enemies," says Greenblatt...
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TV's hand in refashioning Shakespeare Theater
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 3/2/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...contenders. As far back as 1727, Lewis Theobald, an accomplished editor of Shakespeare...The original manuscripts that Theobald claimed to have apparently were...like many scholars, accepts Theobald's claim. He is trying to unravel...
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The Bard's lost 'Cardenio': Recycled, adapted and renewed
Newspaper article from: The Patriot Ledger Quincy, MA; 5/5/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...18th century, an Englishman named Lewis Theobald claimed he had found the missing...manuscript. "Still, we have Theobald's version. Plus, we have the...by) the name Cardenio," which Theobald used in his own play. Cardenio...
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Shakespeare and the Book.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 6/22/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...performance. Kastan points to Lewis Theobald to show "the era's schizophrenic...Shakespeare" (93). Kastan describes Theobald's rewriting of Shakespeare for...was-acted publication) even as Theobald produced, in his own words...
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Griffon goalie looks like a keeper
Newspaper article from: St. Joseph News-Press; 10/2/2007; 700+ words
; Lewis Theobald briefly met with Jeff Hansen at Spratt...exchanged the normal coach courtesies. But Theobald, whose Central Missouri Jennies just...she did at Nebraska. But the fact that Theobald didn't even recognize Milbourn highlights...
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Shakespeare, Milton, and Eighteenth-Century Literary Editing: The Beginnings of Interpretative Scholarship.
Magazine article from: Yearbook of English Studies; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...tastes, other early editors, such as Zachary Pearce and Lewis Theobald, articulated a consistent and defensible set of editorial...University of Kentucky, 1995), is of interest here. Theobald, Upton and their ilk doubtless had their own reasons...
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Shakespeare at Work.
Magazine article from: Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900; 3/22/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...delay come exactly when companies began acting, and critics reading, Hamlets following Lewis Theobald's which was the first to offer both soliloquies. Theobald's edition is published in 1733 and the first known complaint about Hamlet's delay...
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TRANSACTIONS
Newspaper article from: Charleston Gazette; 4/14/2007; 700+ words
; ...OF Aaron Bulkley, INF-OF D.J. Bailey, RHP James Lewis and RHP Louis Lovelady. Announced the retirement of...basketball coach, will not be renewed. CENTRAL MISSOURINamed Lewis Theobald womens soccer coach. DELAWAREAnnounced the resignation...
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Lewis Theobald
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Lewis Theobald , 1688-1744, English author. He is chiefly remembered for his Shakespeare Restored...of Shakespeare. Pope retaliated by satirizing him in the 1728 edition of The Dunciad. Theobald also wrote poems and plays.
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Theobald, Lewis
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Theobald, Lewis (1688–1744), Shakespearian...retaliated with his devastating portraits of Theobald as hero of his Dunciad . Nevertheless Pope incorporated many of Theobald's corrections in his second edition...
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Pope, Alexander
Encyclopedia entry from: U*X*L Encyclopedia of World Biography
...His edition was attacked by Lewis Theobald in Shakespeare Restored (1726...This upset Pope, who then made Theobald the original hero of Dunciad...three-book Dunciad (1728). Theobald was the prime dunce, and the next...
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Alexander Pope
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...1728-43), a scathing satire on dunces and literary hacks in which Pope viciously attacked his enemies, including Lewis Theobald , the critic who had ridiculed Pope's edition of Shakespeare, and the playwright Colley Cibber ; Imitations of...
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1878-1899: Science and Medicine: Chronology
Book article from: American Eras
...properties of cocaine and subsequently becomes addicted to it. Lewis Edson Waterman invents the first practical fountain pen with...humans. Although Salmon is reporting on research conducted by Theobald Smith, the bacterium is later named salmonella in Salmon...
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