 Tragedy called the Moor of Venice : " " I came unknown to any of the rest, To tell the news ; I saw the lady drest : The woman plays to-day ; mistake me not, No man in gown, or page in petticoat : A woman to my knowledge, yet I can't, If I should die,...  Dramatic Table Talk: Or, Scenes, Situations, & Adventures, Serious & Comic ... - Page 45edited by - 1830Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1813 - 564 pages
...Jordan, no date, but printed, I believe, in 1662. Jordan was an actor as well as a poet. ** A Prologue, to introduce the first woman that came to act on the stage, in the tragedy called The Moor of Venice. " I come, unknown to any of the rest, " To tell you news; I saw the lady drest : " The woman plays... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 578 pages
...Jordan, and being only found in a very scarce miscellany 4, I shall here transcribe them : " A Prologue, to introduce the first woman that came to act on the stage, in the tragedy called The Moor of Venice. " I come, unknown to any of the rest, " To tell you news ; I saw the lady drest : " The woman plays... | |
 | Colley Cibber - Actors - 1822 - 564 pages
...heroine of Davenport's " King John." It seems from a prologue written by Thomas Jordan, expressly " to introduce the first woman that came to act on the stage," that this lady, who performed Desdemma, was an unmarried woman, and as Ann Marshall was the principal... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 526 pages
...Mr. Malone believes, in 1662. Jordan was an actor as well as a poet. : A Prologue, to introduce tlie first Woman that came to act on the Stage, in the Tragedy called The Moor of Venice. " I come, unknown to any of the rest, To tell you news ; I saw the lady drest : The woman plays to-day... | |
 | Richard Ryan - 1825 - 526 pages
...recitative, so that it was rather (as it was called) a " musical entertainment" than a play. Mr. Mulone, however, asserts that the first woman who appeared...innovation, and the plea put forward to justify its adoption : — TFIEATRES " Our women are defective, and to siz'd, You'd think they were some of the guard disguis'd... | |
 | Thomas Cromwell - Clerkenwell (London, England) - 1828 - 540 pages
...belonged to this theatre ; for it was Thomas Jordan, an actor at the Red Bull, who wrote " A Prologue, to introduce the first Woman that came to act on the...Stage, in the Tragedy called The Moor of Venice." This was just prior to the Restoration: the name of the "gentle Desdemona" who volunteered to supplant... | |
 | 1839 - 366 pages
...one of the few players and poets who lived to see the restoration of 20 ¡_ THE ALDINE MAGAZINE. 21 first Woman that came to act on the Stage, in the tragedy called the Moor of Venice." From this composition we extract the following lines : — " Our women are defective, and so sized,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - London (England) - 1848 - 334 pages
...of some of the male actors of gentle womanhood, we shall here repeat. It is entitled " A Prologue, to introduce the first Woman that came to act on the Stage, in the Tragedy called the Moor of Venice : " " I came unknown to any of the rest, To tell the news ; I saw the lady drest : The woman plays... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - London (England) - 1848 - 348 pages
...of some of the male actors of gentle womanhood, we shall here repeat. It is entitled " A Prologue, to introduce the first Woman that came to act on the Stage, in the Tragedy called the Moor of Venice : " " I came unknown to any of the rest, To tell the news ; I saw the lady drest : The woman plays... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1857 - 652 pages
...performers some months before D'Avenant opened his theatre. Thomas Jordan wrote a prologue expressly " to introduce the first woman that came to act on the stage." It appears from this, that the lady, who performed Desdemona, was an unmarried woman ; and as Ann Marshall... | |
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