The Plays of William Shakspeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes, Volume 3J. Johnson, 1803 |
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... actors ; and inftead of profane mummeries , prefented ftories taken from legends or the Bible . This was the origin of facred comedy . The death of Saint Catharine , acted by the monks of Saint Dennis , rivalled the popularity of the ...
... actors ; and inftead of profane mummeries , prefented ftories taken from legends or the Bible . This was the origin of facred comedy . The death of Saint Catharine , acted by the monks of Saint Dennis , rivalled the popularity of the ...
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... actors , or would fhew refpect to their lord and mafter , he appoints them to play their first play before himself , and . the Alderman and Common- Counsell of the city ; and that is called the Mayor's 1 Magnificence , written by John ...
... actors , or would fhew refpect to their lord and mafter , he appoints them to play their first play before himself , and . the Alderman and Common- Counsell of the city ; and that is called the Mayor's 1 Magnificence , written by John ...
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... Actors of our Saviour's Passion , who had received letters patent from King 7 Hiftory of English Poetry , Vol . III . p . 326 . 66 That Myfteries were occafionally reprefented in the early part of Queen Elizabeth's reign , appears from ...
... Actors of our Saviour's Passion , who had received letters patent from King 7 Hiftory of English Poetry , Vol . III . p . 326 . 66 That Myfteries were occafionally reprefented in the early part of Queen Elizabeth's reign , appears from ...
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... actor liftening , and yet he himself fhould not hear what one of his fellow- actors fays concerning him , though in his own prefence and within his hearing as if he were abfent , while he is prefent . It is the great object of the ...
... actor liftening , and yet he himself fhould not hear what one of his fellow- actors fays concerning him , though in his own prefence and within his hearing as if he were abfent , while he is prefent . It is the great object of the ...
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... actors employed in a dra- matick piece came on the stage in a troop , before the play began , and prefented themfelves to the fpectators , in order , fays he , to raise the expecta- tion of the audience . " Putem tamen ( quod hodieque ...
... actors employed in a dra- matick piece came on the stage in a troop , before the play began , and prefented themfelves to the fpectators , in order , fays he , to raise the expecta- tion of the audience . " Putem tamen ( quod hodieque ...
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