The English Drama and Stage Under the Tudor and Stuart Princes, 1543-1664

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Roxburghe library, 1869 - 296 páginas
 

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Página 63 - Whereas the distressed estate of Ireland, steeped in her own blood, and the distracted estate of England, threatened with a cloud of blood by a civil war...
Página 46 - CHARLES, BY THE GRACE OF GOD, Kinge of England, Scotland, Fraunce, and Ireland, Defender of the Fayth, &c.
Página 269 - I may conclude that good Plays, which are not profane, lewd, bad, blasphemous, or ungodly, may be acted ; and that this wicked and tyrannical Army ought not to hinder, to impede, let, prohibit, or forbid the acting of them ; which I dare maintain to all the world ; for I was never afrayd to suffer in a good cause.
Página 251 - Dialogue betweene CANE of the Fortune, and REED of the Friers. Deploring their sad and solitary conditions for want of Imployment. In this heavie and Contagious time of the Plague in LONDON.
Página 276 - Gravity and ponderousness of Style; whose onely fault was, he was too elaborate; and had he mixt less erudition with his Playes, they had been more pleasant and delightful then they are. Comparing him with Shakespear, you shall see the difference betwixt Nature and Art; and with Fletcher, the difference betwixt Wit and Judgement: Wit being an exuberant thing, like Nilus, never more commendable then when it overflowes; but Judgement a stayed and reposed thing, alwayes containing it self within its...
Página 25 - Soveraigne Lady Elizabeth, by the grace of God Quene of England, France, and Ireland, Defender of the Fay the, etc.
Página 78 - Also, sithen it is leveful to han the myraclis of God peyntid, why is not as wel leveful to han the myraclis of God pleyed, sythen men mowen bettere reden the wille of God and his mervelous werkis in the pleyinge of hem than in the peyntynge, and betere thei ben holden in mennus mynde and oftere rehersid by the pleyinge of hem than by the peyntynge, for this is a deed bok, the tother a qu[i]ck.
Página 222 - ... hautie, and arrogant : and finally, if you will learne to contemne God and all his lawes, to care neither for Heaven nor Hell, and to commit all kinde of sinne and mischiefe, you neede to goe to no other schoole, for all these good examples maie you see painted before your eyes in enterludes and plaies.
Página 33 - Gyles, and his deputy or deputies, and every of them, to take up in anye Cathedral or Collegiate Churche or Churches,. and in everye other place or places of this our Realme of England and Wales...
Página 8 - Sainctes nexte commyng, thei ne any of them, openly or secretly plaie in the English tongue any kynde of Interlude, Plaie, Dialogue or other matter set furthe in forme of Plaie in any place publique or private within this realme...

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William Hazlitt was born on April 10, 1778 in Maidstone, England. As a young man, he studied for the ministry at Hackney College in London, but eventually realized that he wasn't committed to becoming a minister. After he lacked success as a portrait painter, he turned to writing. His first book, An Essay on the Principles of Human Action, was published in 1805. His other works include Free Thoughts on Public Affairs, Round Table, Table Talk, Spirit of the Age, Characters of Shakespeare, A View of the English Stage, English Poets, English Comic Writers, Political Essays with Sketches of Public Characters, Plain Speaker, and The Life of Napoleon. He died of stomach cancer on September 18, 1830.

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