Bartholomew FairH. Holt, 1904 - 238 pages |
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Page iv
... London and of the Smithfield Fair at the time of our play. A portion of the expense of printing this thesis has been borne by the Modern Language Club of Yale University from funds placed at its disposal by the generosity of Mr. George ...
... London and of the Smithfield Fair at the time of our play. A portion of the expense of printing this thesis has been borne by the Modern Language Club of Yale University from funds placed at its disposal by the generosity of Mr. George ...
Page iii
... London . It also reflects not a little the personality of Jonson as he moved , a man among men , and enjoyed to the full the rough , hearty life of the middle and lower classes of the metropolis . Consequently , though the play is not ...
... London . It also reflects not a little the personality of Jonson as he moved , a man among men , and enjoyed to the full the rough , hearty life of the middle and lower classes of the metropolis . Consequently , though the play is not ...
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... London and of the Smithfield Fair at the time of our play . A portion of the expense of printing this thesis has been borne by the Modern Language Club of Yale University from funds placed at its disposal by the generosity of Mr. George ...
... London and of the Smithfield Fair at the time of our play . A portion of the expense of printing this thesis has been borne by the Modern Language Club of Yale University from funds placed at its disposal by the generosity of Mr. George ...
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... London ; and one of the greatest helps to a knowledge of either the Fair or the play, is an acquaintance with the other. For completeness, then, the present work should include a history of the Fair from its founding in the twelfth ...
... London ; and one of the greatest helps to a knowledge of either the Fair or the play, is an acquaintance with the other. For completeness, then, the present work should include a history of the Fair from its founding in the twelfth ...
Page viii
... LONDON , | Printed by I. B. for ROBERT ALLOT , and are to be sold at the signe of the Beare , in Pauls | Church- yard . 1631. | Following the quotation from Horace there is a woodcut with device of a wolf's head , erased , etc. Verso of ...
... LONDON , | Printed by I. B. for ROBERT ALLOT , and are to be sold at the signe of the Beare , in Pauls | Church- yard . 1631. | Following the quotation from Horace there is a woodcut with device of a wolf's head , erased , etc. Verso of ...
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Page 181 - A strange fish! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Page 213 - The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment : for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God.
Page xxix - And it is an excellent play ; the more I see it, the more I love the wit of it; only the business of abusing the Puritans begins to grow stale, and of no use, they being the people that, at last, will be found the wisest.
Page 142 - Maygame, or Pageant jestingly or prophanely speake or use the holy Name of God or of Christ Jesus, or of the Holy Ghoste or of the Trinitie...
Page 150 - ... and sometime painted with variable colours, with two or three hundred men, women and children following it with great devotion. And thus being reared up with...
Page 153 - Fair he gives you the pictures of Numps and Cokes, and in this those of Daw, Lafoole, Morose, and the Collegiate Ladies; all which you hear described before you see them. So that before they come upon the stage, you have a longing expectation of them, which prepares you to receive them favourably; and when they are there, even from their first appearance you are so far acquainted with them, that nothing of their humour is lost to you.
Page 234 - XXII. King Alfred's Old English Version of St. Augustine's Soliloquies, turned into Modern English. HENRY LEE HARGROVE, Ph.D. $0.75.
Page 69 - Faith, through a common calamity, he bought me, sir; and now he will marry me to his wife's brother, this wise gentleman that you see; or else I must pay value o
Page xvii - Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act ; Where they shall see the time's deformity Anatomized in every nerve and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.
Page xiii - Booth, over against the Crown Tavern in Smithfield, during the time of Bartholomew Fair, will be presented a little opera, called the Old Creation of the World...