The Stage: Both Before and Behind the Curtain, from "observations Taken on the Spot.", Volume 1 |
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... night of Lent , when the prohibition was taken off , Her Majesty was pleased to visit Covent Garden Theatre , and sit out the even- ing's entertainments . It can hardly be believed , were it not a matter of such recent occurrence , that ...
... night of Lent , when the prohibition was taken off , Her Majesty was pleased to visit Covent Garden Theatre , and sit out the even- ing's entertainments . It can hardly be believed , were it not a matter of such recent occurrence , that ...
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... nights , in an ear- lier part of her season , towards the number she proposed to play , by which she has been enabled to close so much earlier , and thereby to escape the fearful odds against a patent ! manager , as the London season ...
... nights , in an ear- lier part of her season , towards the number she proposed to play , by which she has been enabled to close so much earlier , and thereby to escape the fearful odds against a patent ! manager , as the London season ...
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... nights , on each of which he filled most of the crevices in Covent Garden Theatre ; and if his acting had no other effect , it possessed the very useful and salutary one of bringing other per- formers to their proper level ; for while ...
... nights , on each of which he filled most of the crevices in Covent Garden Theatre ; and if his acting had no other effect , it possessed the very useful and salutary one of bringing other per- formers to their proper level ; for while ...
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... NIGHTS , to give a few promenade con- certs to enable me the more effectually to return to the usual dramatic preformances , the yell from one end of the theatrical part of the metropolis to the other was enough to make the welkin ring ...
... NIGHTS , to give a few promenade con- certs to enable me the more effectually to return to the usual dramatic preformances , the yell from one end of the theatrical part of the metropolis to the other was enough to make the welkin ring ...
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... NIGHTS , between the 26th October , 1839 and 28th February , 1840 , all was " like a phantasma or a hideous dream . " A Drury Lane season , the first of a new lessee , and that lessee " Durrant's pet , " to extend but to four months and ...
... NIGHTS , between the 26th October , 1839 and 28th February , 1840 , all was " like a phantasma or a hideous dream . " A Drury Lane season , the first of a new lessee , and that lessee " Durrant's pet , " to extend but to four months and ...
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Page 114 - We do not think those opinions very consistent; and we think that neither of them could possibly find favour with a person whose genius had a truly dramatic character. We should as soon expect an orator to compose a speech altogether unfit to be spoken. A drama is not merely a dialogue, but an action: and necessarily supposes that something is to pass before the eyes of assembled spectators. Whatever is peculiar to its written part, should derive its peculiarity from this consideration. Its style...
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