The Stage: Both Before and Behind the Curtain, from "observations Taken on the Spot", Volumes 1-3Richard Bentley, 1840 - Theater |
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... tragedy , and Liston and Mathews in comedy— Ingredients of an utilitarian - Failure of the theatres the fault of the public - Sir Robert Walpole , and his medical advisers Page 1 CHAPTER II . Indifference of the public to theatrical ...
... tragedy , and Liston and Mathews in comedy— Ingredients of an utilitarian - Failure of the theatres the fault of the public - Sir Robert Walpole , and his medical advisers Page 1 CHAPTER II . Indifference of the public to theatrical ...
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... tragedy , and Liston and Mathews in comedy - Ingredients of an utilitarian — Failure of the theatres the fault of the public— Sir Robert Walpole , and his medical advisers . THOSE who open the following pages for the mere purposes of ...
... tragedy , and Liston and Mathews in comedy - Ingredients of an utilitarian — Failure of the theatres the fault of the public— Sir Robert Walpole , and his medical advisers . THOSE who open the following pages for the mere purposes of ...
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... tragedy , and Messrs . Liston and Mathews in comedy ( not to name other enterprises ) , amply testify but he subsequently counterbalanced all such praiseworthy performance , by becoming , since his secession from Drury Lane theatre ...
... tragedy , and Messrs . Liston and Mathews in comedy ( not to name other enterprises ) , amply testify but he subsequently counterbalanced all such praiseworthy performance , by becoming , since his secession from Drury Lane theatre ...
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... tragedy of Richard the Third . Mr. Elliston was enacting the part of Richmond ; and , having during the evening disobeyed the injunction which the King of Denmark lays down to his Queen , " Ger- trude , do not drink , " he accosted Mr ...
... tragedy of Richard the Third . Mr. Elliston was enacting the part of Richmond ; and , having during the evening disobeyed the injunction which the King of Denmark lays down to his Queen , " Ger- trude , do not drink , " he accosted Mr ...
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... tragedy of nearly 600 pages , written by an author totally unknown , and likely ever to remain so , was sent me by one particular friend of mine , and * At the period when the late Mr. Morton was reader and " ex- aminer of plays " to ...
... tragedy of nearly 600 pages , written by an author totally unknown , and likely ever to remain so , was sent me by one particular friend of mine , and * At the period when the late Mr. Morton was reader and " ex- aminer of plays " to ...
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