The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes, Volume 3J. Nichols and Son, 1813 |
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... publick . spectacles or popular amusements were established ; and as the sedentary pleasures of domestick life and private society were yet unknown , the fair - time was the season for diversion . In proportion as these shews were ...
... publick . spectacles or popular amusements were established ; and as the sedentary pleasures of domestick life and private society were yet unknown , the fair - time was the season for diversion . In proportion as these shews were ...
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... publick presentation of that play at the ensuing Christmas . About twelve years after- wards , the Parish Clerks of London , as Stowe in- forms us , performed spiritual plays at Skinner's Well for three days successively , in the ...
... publick presentation of that play at the ensuing Christmas . About twelve years after- wards , the Parish Clerks of London , as Stowe in- forms us , performed spiritual plays at Skinner's Well for three days successively , in the ...
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... publick pageants of the reign of King Henry the Sixth were uncommonly splendid ; and being then first enlivened by the introduction of speaking al- legorical personages properly and characteristically habited , they naturally led the ...
... publick pageants of the reign of King Henry the Sixth were uncommonly splendid ; and being then first enlivened by the introduction of speaking al- legorical personages properly and characteristically habited , they naturally led the ...
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... publick theatre , nor was there at that time any building in London constructed solely for the purpose of representing plays . Of the latter piece , which , as Mr. Warton has observed , is perhaps " the first specimen in our language of ...
... publick theatre , nor was there at that time any building in London constructed solely for the purpose of representing plays . Of the latter piece , which , as Mr. Warton has observed , is perhaps " the first specimen in our language of ...
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... publick theatres ; viz . The Globe on the Bank- side , The Curtain2 in Shoreditch , The Red Bull , at the upper end of St. John's Street , and The Fortune3 1 This theatre had been originally a Cockpit . It was built or rebuilt not very ...
... publick theatres ; viz . The Globe on the Bank- side , The Curtain2 in Shoreditch , The Red Bull , at the upper end of St. John's Street , and The Fortune3 1 This theatre had been originally a Cockpit . It was built or rebuilt not very ...
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acted actors aforesaid Alleyn ancient appears ascertain Augustine Phillips Ben Jonson Blackfriars Burbadge called children of Paul's Cockpit comedians comedy company of players Cundall death Dekker dramas dramatick Drury Lane Earl Edward Alleyn Elizabeth England English stage entertainments executors exhibited Fletcher George Buc give and bequeath Globe hath Heminge Henry Chettle Henry Herbert Henslowe Histriomastix interludes Item John Heminge John Shakspear Jonson June Kempe Killegrew King Henry King James king's company Lady Lent unto license London Lowin Majesty Majesty's reward March Masque Master Michael Drayton musick Nicholas Tooley night October parish performed persons piece playes playhouse poet poet's pounds printed probably prologue publick Queen Red Bull reign represented Revels Richard Robert says scenes servants Shakspeare's shillings Sir Henry Herbert Sir William D'Avenant STEEVENS Testament theatre theatrical thereof Thomas Thomas Dekker tion tragedy Wentworth Smith wife William D'Avenant writer written
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Página 69 - Garters, the guards with their embroidered coats, and the like— sufficient in truth within a while to make greatness very familiar if not ridiculous. Now, King Henry making a masque at the Cardinal Wolsey's house, and certain cannons 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...
Página 165 - M. William Shak-speare : HIS True Chronicle Historic of the life and death of King LEAR and his three Daughters. With the unfortunate life of Edgar, sonne and heire to the Earle of Gloster, and his sullen and assumed humor of TOM of Bedlam : As it was played before the Kings Maiestie at Whitehall vpon S.
Página 217 - I loved the man and do honour his memory on this side idolatry as much as any. He was, indeed, honest, and of an open and free nature; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions : wherein he flowed with that facility, that sometimes it was necessary he should be stopped: Sufflaminandus erat, as Augustus said of Haterius.
Página 224 - I am as sorry as if the original fault had been my fault, because myself have seen his demeanour no less civil than he excellent in the quality he professes: besides, divers of worship have reported his uprightness of dealing which argues his honesty, and his facetious grace in writing, that approves his art.
Página 246 - 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.
Página 74 - When thou art bidden of any man to a wedding, sit not down in the highest room...
Página 69 - 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...
Página 213 - Warwick; his father was a butcher, and I have been told heretofore by some of the neighbours that, when he was a boy, he exercised his father's trade; but when he killed a calf, he would do it in a high style and make a speech.
Página 216 - Nature, was a most gentle expresser of it : his mind and hand went together ; and what he thought, he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers.