The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes, Volume 3J. Nichols and Son, 1813 |
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... London , for its theatrical exhibitions , has religious plays , either the representations of miracles wrought by holy confessors , or the sufferings of martyrs . " The French theatre cannot be traced higher than the year 1398 , when ...
... London , for its theatrical exhibitions , has religious plays , either the representations of miracles wrought by holy confessors , or the sufferings of martyrs . " The French theatre cannot be traced higher than the year 1398 , when ...
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... London is a portion of a larger work , entitled Vita sancti Thomæ , Ar- chiepiscopi et Martyris , i . e . Thomas a Becket . It is ascertained to have been written after the murder of Becket in the year 1170 , of which Fitz - Stephen was ...
... London is a portion of a larger work , entitled Vita sancti Thomæ , Ar- chiepiscopi et Martyris , i . e . Thomas a Becket . It is ascertained to have been written after the murder of Becket in the year 1170 , of which Fitz - Stephen was ...
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... London , at a feast of Whit- suntyde ; wheare the comynge downe of the Holy Ghost was set forthe by a white pigeon , that was let to fly out of a hole that yet is to be sene in the mydst of the roofe of the great ile , and by a longe ...
... London , at a feast of Whit- suntyde ; wheare the comynge downe of the Holy Ghost was set forthe by a white pigeon , that was let to fly out of a hole that yet is to be sene in the mydst of the roofe of the great ile , and by a longe ...
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... London , 1584 ; The Three Lords of London , 1590 ; Tom Tyler and his Wife , & c . play : where every one that will , comes in OF THE ENGLISH STAGE . 27.
... London , 1584 ; The Three Lords of London , 1590 ; Tom Tyler and his Wife , & c . play : where every one that will , comes in OF THE ENGLISH STAGE . 27.
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... London constructed solely for the purpose of representing plays . Of the latter piece , which , as Mr. Warton has observed , is perhaps " the first specimen in our language of an heroick tale written in verse , and divided into acts and ...
... London constructed solely for the purpose of representing plays . Of the latter piece , which , as Mr. Warton has observed , is perhaps " the first specimen in our language of an heroick tale written in verse , and divided into acts and ...
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