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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... appeared that species of Drama called INTERLUDES , or facetious and satirical dialogues , which were commonly played at the festivals held at the Inns of Court . After various alterations and im- provements they became MASQUES , the ...
... appeared that species of Drama called INTERLUDES , or facetious and satirical dialogues , which were commonly played at the festivals held at the Inns of Court . After various alterations and im- provements they became MASQUES , the ...
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... appearing at the Theatre in Vere Street , near Clare Market , as Desdemona , on Saturday , December 8th , 1660 , and tradition reports her name to have been Saunderson ; but Kynaston still remained celebrated for similar parts . The ...
... appearing at the Theatre in Vere Street , near Clare Market , as Desdemona , on Saturday , December 8th , 1660 , and tradition reports her name to have been Saunderson ; but Kynaston still remained celebrated for similar parts . The ...
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... appeared in one year . At the worst period of their persecution , the humorous Robert Cox devised a new dramatic entertainment , blended with rope - dancing , & c . to disguise the acting ; which entirely filled the capacious Red Bull ...
... appeared in one year . At the worst period of their persecution , the humorous Robert Cox devised a new dramatic entertainment , blended with rope - dancing , & c . to disguise the acting ; which entirely filled the capacious Red Bull ...
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... appeared in the latter part of 1612 , or the beginning of 1613 , when it was performed before Prince Charles , the Princess Elizabeth , and the Prince Palatine . Dr. Johnson has celebrated the diversity of characters , boundless ...
... appeared in the latter part of 1612 , or the beginning of 1613 , when it was performed before Prince Charles , the Princess Elizabeth , and the Prince Palatine . Dr. Johnson has celebrated the diversity of characters , boundless ...
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... appearance and exquisite acting ; and the personal dignity of her brothers was alike appropriate to the hood of the Friar and the coronet of the Duke . An indifferent alteration of this play by Charles Gildon , was produced in 1700 , at ...
... appearance and exquisite acting ; and the personal dignity of her brothers was alike appropriate to the hood of the Friar and the coronet of the Duke . An indifferent alteration of this play by Charles Gildon , was produced in 1700 , at ...
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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...