A Compendious History of English Literature and of the English Language, from the Norman Conquest: with Numerous Specimens, Volume 2Griffin, Bohn, 1861 - English language |
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... causes us to read him with some pleasure . " † A preface by Shirley is prefixed to the first collection of part of the plays of Beaumont and Fletcher , which , as already men- tioned , appeared in 1647. " Now , reader , " he says , " in ...
... causes us to read him with some pleasure . " † A preface by Shirley is prefixed to the first collection of part of the plays of Beaumont and Fletcher , which , as already men- tioned , appeared in 1647. " Now , reader , " he says , " in ...
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... cause . Before the commencement of the civil war there appear to have been no fewer than five different companies of public players in London - 1 . That called the King's Company ( the same that Shakespeare had belonged to ) , which ...
... cause . Before the commencement of the civil war there appear to have been no fewer than five different companies of public players in London - 1 . That called the King's Company ( the same that Shakespeare had belonged to ) , which ...
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... causes and set times of humiliation do continue , public stage - plays shall cease and be forborne . " It has been plausibly conjectured that this measure originated , " not merely in a spirit of religious dis- like to dramatic ...
... causes and set times of humiliation do continue , public stage - plays shall cease and be forborne . " It has been plausibly conjectured that this measure originated , " not merely in a spirit of religious dis- like to dramatic ...
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... cause and procure to be pulled down and demolished , all stage - galleries , seats , and boxes , erected or used , or which shall be erected or used , for the acting or playing , or seeing acted or played , " any species of theatrical ...
... cause and procure to be pulled down and demolished , all stage - galleries , seats , and boxes , erected or used , or which shall be erected or used , for the acting or playing , or seeing acted or played , " any species of theatrical ...
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... cause was considered as desperate , Sir William Dave- nant , without molestation , exhibited entertainments of declama- tion and music , after the manner of the ancients , at Rutland House . He began in the year 1656 , and two years ...
... cause was considered as desperate , Sir William Dave- nant , without molestation , exhibited entertainments of declama- tion and music , after the manner of the ancients , at Rutland House . He began in the year 1656 , and two years ...
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