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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... ascertain . Undoubt- edly , however , they are of very great antiquity ; and Riccoboni , who has contended that the Italian theatre is the most ancient in Europe , has claimed for his country an honour to which it is not en- titled ...
... ascertain . Undoubt- edly , however , they are of very great antiquity ; and Riccoboni , who has contended that the Italian theatre is the most ancient in Europe , has claimed for his country an honour to which it is not en- titled ...
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... ascertained to have been written after the murder of Becket in the year 1170 , of which Fitz - Stephen was an ocular witness , and while King Henry II . was yet living . A modern writer with great probability supposes it to have been ...
... ascertained to have been written after the murder of Becket in the year 1170 , of which Fitz - Stephen was an ocular witness , and while King Henry II . was yet living . A modern writer with great probability supposes it to have been ...
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... ascertain when the first Morality appeared , but incline to think not sooner than the reign of King Edward the Fourth ( 1460 ) . The publick pageants of the reign of King Henry the Sixth were uncommonly splendid ; and being then first ...
... ascertain when the first Morality appeared , but incline to think not sooner than the reign of King Edward the Fourth ( 1460 ) . The publick pageants of the reign of King Henry the Sixth were uncommonly splendid ; and being then first ...
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... ascertain . Barnaby Riche , who has given a curious account of Dublin in the year 1610 , makes no mention of any theatrical exhibition . In 1635 , when Lord Strafford was Lord Lieutenant , a theatre , probably under his patronage , was ...
... ascertain . Barnaby Riche , who has given a curious account of Dublin in the year 1610 , makes no mention of any theatrical exhibition . In 1635 , when Lord Strafford was Lord Lieutenant , a theatre , probably under his patronage , was ...
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... ascertain the precise time when the latter gave way to a more legitimate theatrical exhibition . We know that Moralities were ex- hibited occasionally during the whole of the reign of Queen Elizabeth , and even in that of her suc ...
... ascertain the precise time when the latter gave way to a more legitimate theatrical exhibition . We know that Moralities were ex- hibited occasionally during the whole of the reign of Queen Elizabeth , and even in that of her suc ...
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