An Apology for the Believers in the Shakspeare-papers,: Which Were Exhibited in Norfolk-Street..Thomas Egerton, Whitehall., 1797 - 628 pages |
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Page 186
... licensing act . It was to this remark- able circumftance , which occurred , while our poet was whetting his pen , that we probably owe much of the correctness of Shakspeare's dramas . Such are the facts , which exhibit a very different ...
... licensing act . It was to this remark- able circumftance , which occurred , while our poet was whetting his pen , that we probably owe much of the correctness of Shakspeare's dramas . Such are the facts , which exhibit a very different ...
Page 248
... license was granted to Fletcher , Shakspeare , and other players , on the 19th of May 1603 , to play at the Globe , and at other convenient places , within any town . And , it was equally commodious for Shakspeare to refide , for a time ...
... license was granted to Fletcher , Shakspeare , and other players , on the 19th of May 1603 , to play at the Globe , and at other convenient places , within any town . And , it was equally commodious for Shakspeare to refide , for a time ...
Page 347
... license to be granted , for to have his players , play only in " his lordship's prefence . " [ Council - regr . ] ( A ) On the 12th Janry . 1547 , a warrant was issued for £ .60 . 8s . 10 d . to Sir Thomas Darcy , for pikes , lances ...
... license to be granted , for to have his players , play only in " his lordship's prefence . " [ Council - regr . ] ( A ) On the 12th Janry . 1547 , a warrant was issued for £ .60 . 8s . 10 d . to Sir Thomas Darcy , for pikes , lances ...
Page 371
... license , under the privy feal , ( b ) Strype's Stow , vol . i . p . 299-300 . ( i ) The council - regift . of that date . Bb 2 " to " to exercise the faculty of playing , through- " OF THE STAGE . ] for the BELIEVERS . 371.
... license , under the privy feal , ( b ) Strype's Stow , vol . i . p . 299-300 . ( i ) The council - regift . of that date . Bb 2 " to " to exercise the faculty of playing , through- " OF THE STAGE . ] for the BELIEVERS . 371.
Page 372
... license , for acting generally , was granted by an open warrant , on the 29th of April 1593 , " to the plaiers , fervants to the Earl of Suffex ; " authorizing them to exercise their quality of playing co- " medies and tragedies , in ...
... license , for acting generally , was granted by an open warrant , on the 29th of April 1593 , " to the plaiers , fervants to the Earl of Suffex ; " authorizing them to exercise their quality of playing co- " medies and tragedies , in ...
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