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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... Hall , and was built about 1570 ; the White - Friars Theatre , was built in Salisbury Street , or the Court beyond it , before 1580 ; and the Cockpit , or Phoenix Theatre , stood in Drury - Lane , and was erected about 1617. These were ...
... Hall , and was built about 1570 ; the White - Friars Theatre , was built in Salisbury Street , or the Court beyond it , before 1580 ; and the Cockpit , or Phoenix Theatre , stood in Drury - Lane , and was erected about 1617. These were ...
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... Hall in 1593 ; and the story of Proteus and Julia , which has been compared to one in George of Montemayor's Diana , also translated in the time of Shakspeare . The style of this piece is considered to be less figurative and more ...
... Hall in 1593 ; and the story of Proteus and Julia , which has been compared to one in George of Montemayor's Diana , also translated in the time of Shakspeare . The style of this piece is considered to be less figurative and more ...
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... Hall , January 13th in the latter year . There was , however , no perfect and entire edition of it until the folio of 1623 ; the quartos of 1602 and 1619 having possibly been printed from a corrupt copy , surreptitiously procured , as ...
... Hall , January 13th in the latter year . There was , however , no perfect and entire edition of it until the folio of 1623 ; the quartos of 1602 and 1619 having possibly been printed from a corrupt copy , surreptitiously procured , as ...
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... Hall on August 23rd in the same year , and is not mentioned by Meres in his list of Shakspeare's works , published about the end of 1598 ; it is believed that the above date may be accurately assigned as the time of it's production . It ...
... Hall on August 23rd in the same year , and is not mentioned by Meres in his list of Shakspeare's works , published about the end of 1598 ; it is believed that the above date may be accurately assigned as the time of it's production . It ...
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... Hall until January 22nd , 1606-7 , and the next earliest known edition of it is that of 1631 , 4to . The original novel on which this Comedy was founded , has hitherto eluded the search of Shakspeare's commentators ; but , from the ...
... Hall until January 22nd , 1606-7 , and the next earliest known edition of it is that of 1631 , 4to . The original novel on which this Comedy was founded , has hitherto eluded the search of Shakspeare's commentators ; but , from the ...
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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...