The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare, Volumen3R. C. and J. Rivington, 1821 |
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... acted on Cor- pus Christi day , and in the Whitsun - plays at Ches- John Inglysh and hys companions plaid . This was in the year 1503. Apud . Leland . coll . iii . p . 300. Append . edit . 1770. " 8 See an account of the Coventry Plays ...
... acted on Cor- pus Christi day , and in the Whitsun - plays at Ches- John Inglysh and hys companions plaid . This was in the year 1503. Apud . Leland . coll . iii . p . 300. Append . edit . 1770. " 8 See an account of the Coventry Plays ...
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... acted before him on Cor- pus Christi day , a Mystery , in which was represented the court of the king of heaven ' . These religious dramas were usually represented on holy festivals in or near churches . " In several of our old ...
... acted before him on Cor- pus Christi day , a Mystery , in which was represented the court of the king of heaven ' . These religious dramas were usually represented on holy festivals in or near churches . " In several of our old ...
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... acted at Clerkenwell for eight days successively a play , which was matter from the creation of the world , " and pro- bably concluded with the day of judgment , in the presence of most of the nobility and gentry of Eng- land 5 . 66 We ...
... acted at Clerkenwell for eight days successively a play , which was matter from the creation of the world , " and pro- bably concluded with the day of judgment , in the presence of most of the nobility and gentry of Eng- land 5 . 66 We ...
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... acted by young men at the market- cross in Kilkenny , on a Sunday , in the year 1552. See Walker's Essay on the Irish Stage , 4to . 1789 , and Collect . de Rebus Hiber . vol . ii . p . 388 : but there is a slight error in the date ...
... acted by young men at the market- cross in Kilkenny , on a Sunday , in the year 1552. See Walker's Essay on the Irish Stage , 4to . 1789 , and Collect . de Rebus Hiber . vol . ii . p . 388 : but there is a slight error in the date ...
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... acted at Christ's College Cam- bridge , in 1566 , is pointed out by the ingenious writer of the tract entitled Historia Histrionica , as the first piece " that looks like a regular comedy ; " that is , the first play that was neither ...
... acted at Christ's College Cam- bridge , in 1566 , is pointed out by the ingenious writer of the tract entitled Historia Histrionica , as the first piece " that looks like a regular comedy ; " that is , the first play that was neither ...
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 153 - M. William Shak-speare : His True Chronicle Historic of the life and death of King Lear and his three Daughters.