Literary and Graphical Illustrations of Shakspeare, and the British Drama: Comprising an Historical View of the Origin and Improvement of the English Stage, and a Series of Critical and Descriptive Notices of Upwards of One Hundred of the Most Celebrated Tragedies, Comedies, Operas, and Farces. Embellished with More Than Two Hundred Engravings on Wood |
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... Comedy of Errors .. 1603 1604 1603 8 1593 1591 1591 10 6. Much Ado about Nothing 1600 1599 1599 12 7. Love's Labour's Lost .. 1594 1592 1591 14 8 . A Midsummer Night's Dream 9. The Merchant of Venice 10 . As You Like It 1592 1598 1593 ...
... Comedy of Errors .. 1603 1604 1603 8 1593 1591 1591 10 6. Much Ado about Nothing 1600 1599 1599 12 7. Love's Labour's Lost .. 1594 1592 1591 14 8 . A Midsummer Night's Dream 9. The Merchant of Venice 10 . As You Like It 1592 1598 1593 ...
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... comedy was performed at Padua ; and in 1264 , the Fraternitate del Gonfalone was established , part of whose occupation was to represent the sufferings of Christ during Passion - Week . The origin of the French Theatre cannot be traced ...
... comedy was performed at Padua ; and in 1264 , the Fraternitate del Gonfalone was established , part of whose occupation was to represent the sufferings of Christ during Passion - Week . The origin of the French Theatre cannot be traced ...
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... Comedy of the Three Laws of Nature , 1538 , —in reality a Mystery , -being a disguised satire against Popery , as was also Weever's Morality of Lusty Juventus , written in the reign of Edward VI . The performance of Mysteries was ...
... Comedy of the Three Laws of Nature , 1538 , —in reality a Mystery , -being a disguised satire against Popery , as was also Weever's Morality of Lusty Juventus , written in the reign of Edward VI . The performance of Mysteries was ...
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... COMEDY , was produced in 1552 , by John Still , afterwards Bishop of Bath and Wells . It was acted at Christ's College , Cambridge , is entitled Gammar Gurton's Needle , and abounds in familiar humour and grotesque dialogue . In 1561-62 ...
... COMEDY , was produced in 1552 , by John Still , afterwards Bishop of Bath and Wells . It was acted at Christ's College , Cambridge , is entitled Gammar Gurton's Needle , and abounds in familiar humour and grotesque dialogue . In 1561-62 ...
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... COMEDY , BY WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE . SEVERAL indications , both in the historical allusions and style of this play , are supposed to prove it one of the author's earliest productions ; if not , as Malone conjectures , his very first ...
... COMEDY , BY WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE . SEVERAL indications , both in the historical allusions and style of this play , are supposed to prove it one of the author's earliest productions ; if not , as Malone conjectures , his very first ...
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Page 33 - All murder'd : for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
Page 63 - Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand ? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight ? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain ? I see thee yet, in form as palpable As this which now I draw.
Page 45 - O God ! methinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain : To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point...
Page 21 - Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven ; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot ; And thereby hangs a tale.
Page 69 - I will in Cassio's lodging lose this napkin, And let him find it. Trifles light as air, Are, to the jealous, confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ.
Page 31 - For heaven's sake, Hubert, let me not be bound ! Nay, hear me, Hubert ! — drive these men away, And I will sit as quiet as a lamb ; I will not stir, nor wince, nor speak a word, Nor look upon the iron angerly :5 Thrust but these men away, and I'll forgive you, Whatever torment you do put me to.
Page 154 - Be to her virtues very kind ; Be to her faults a little blind ; Let all her ways be unconfin'd ; And clap your padlock — on her mind.
Page 100 - Dr. Swift had been observing once to Mr. Gay, what an odd pretty sort of a thing a Newgate Pastoral might make. Gay was inclined to try at such a thing for some time; but afterwards thought it would be better to write a comedy on the same plan. This was what gave rise to The Beggar's Opera.
Page 64 - The younger sort take much delight in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis ; but his Lucrece, and his tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmarke, have it in them to please the wiser sort, 1598.
Page 40 - How would it have joyed brave Talbot (the terror of the French) to think that after he had lain two hundred years in his tomb, he should triumph again on the stage, and have his bones new embalmed with the tears of ten thousand spectators at least (at several times) who in the tragedian that represents his person, imagine they behold him fresh bleeding...