The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volume 3R. C. and J. Rivington, 1821 |
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... theatrical re- searches higher than that period . Dryden has truly observed , that he " found not , but created first the stage " of which no one can doubt , who considers , that of all the plays issued from the press antecedent to the ...
... theatrical re- searches higher than that period . Dryden has truly observed , that he " found not , but created first the stage " of which no one can doubt , who considers , that of all the plays issued from the press antecedent to the ...
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... , within the above period , which have not been printed . Their titles may be found in Herbert's edition of Ames , and Egerton's Theatrical Remembrancer . REED . though I fear I can add but little to the OF THE ENGLISH STAGE .
... , within the above period , which have not been printed . Their titles may be found in Herbert's edition of Ames , and Egerton's Theatrical Remembrancer . REED . though I fear I can add but little to the OF THE ENGLISH STAGE .
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... theatrical exhibitions , has religious plays , either the representations of miracles wrought by holy confessors , or the sufferings of martyrs 3 Apud Dunestapliam - quendam ludum de sancta Katerina ( quem Miracula vulgariter appellamus ) ...
... theatrical exhibitions , has religious plays , either the representations of miracles wrought by holy confessors , or the sufferings of martyrs 3 Apud Dunestapliam - quendam ludum de sancta Katerina ( quem Miracula vulgariter appellamus ) ...
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... theatrical representation called MYSTERIES , or sacred comedies , and which were soon after received in France . opinion will acquire probability , if we consider the early commercial intercourse between Italy and Con- stantinople and ...
... theatrical representation called MYSTERIES , or sacred comedies , and which were soon after received in France . opinion will acquire probability , if we consider the early commercial intercourse between Italy and Con- stantinople and ...
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... theatrical exhibition . In 1635 , when Lord Strafford was Lord Lieutenant , a theatre , probably under his patronage , was built in Werbergh Street ; which , under the conduct of the well- known John Ogilby , Master of the Revels in ...
... theatrical exhibition . In 1635 , when Lord Strafford was Lord Lieutenant , a theatre , probably under his patronage , was built in Werbergh Street ; which , under the conduct of the well- known John Ogilby , Master of the Revels in ...
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Page 72 - When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room ; lest a more honourable man than thou be bidden of him ] and he that bade thee and him come and say to thee, Give this man place ; and thou begin with shame to take the lowest room.
Page 196 - IN the name of God, Amen. I William Shakspeare, of Stratford-upon-Avon, in the county of Warwick, gent., in perfect health and memory (God be praised), do make and ordain this my last will and testament in manner and form following : that is to say — First, I commend my soul into the hands of God my Creator, hoping, and assuredly believing, through the only merits of Jesus Christ my Saviour, to be made partaker of life everlasting ; and my body to the earth whereof it is made.
Page 67 - ... only one man had his breeches set on fire, that would perhaps have broiled him, if he had not by the benefit of a provident wit put it out with bottle ale.
Page 67 - King Henry making a masque at the Cardinal Wolsey's house, and certain chambers being shot off at his entry, some of the paper or other stuff wherewith one of them was stopped did light on the thatch, where being thought at first but an idle smoke, and their eyes more attentive to the show, it kindled inwardly and ran round like a train, consuming within less than an hour the whole house to the very grounds. This was the fatal period of that virtuous fabric, wherein yet nothing did perish but wood...
Page 132 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Page 104 - Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish; A vapour sometime like a bear or lion, A tower'd citadel, a pendent rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon't, that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air.
Page 89 - The New Inn : or the Light Heart, a Comedy. As it was never acted, but most negligently played by some, the King's servants ; and more squeamishly beheld and censured by others, the King's subjects.
Page 81 - By and by we hear news of shipwreck in the same place, and then we are to blame if we accept it not for a rock. Upon the back of that comes out a hideous monster with fire and smoke, and then the miserable beholders are bound to take it for a cave.
Page 355 - Whatever advantages he might once derive from personal allusions, local customs, or temporary opinions, have for many years been lost; and every topick of merriment, or motive of sorrow, which the modes of artificial life afforded him, now only obscure the scenes which they once illuminated.
Page 153 - M. William Shak-speare : His True Chronicle Historic of the life and death of King Lear and his three Daughters.