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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... character of European manners ; when the knight going to a tornament , firft invoked his God , then his mif- trefs , and afterwards proceeded with a fafe con- fcience and great refolution to engage his antago- nift . In thefe Myfieries ...
... character of European manners ; when the knight going to a tornament , firft invoked his God , then his mif- trefs , and afterwards proceeded with a fafe con- fcience and great refolution to engage his antago- nift . In thefe Myfieries ...
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... characters were Chrift , Adam , Eve , Abraham , and John the Bap- tift , was not uncommon in the ancient religious drama , and I believe made a part of what is called the LUDUS PASCHALIS , or Eafter Play . It occurs in the Coventry ...
... characters were Chrift , Adam , Eve , Abraham , and John the Bap- tift , was not uncommon in the ancient religious drama , and I believe made a part of what is called the LUDUS PASCHALIS , or Eafter Play . It occurs in the Coventry ...
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... character and language to be at least 300 years old . It begins with a general prologue , giving the arguments of forty pageants or gefticulations , ( which were as so many several acts or scenes , ) representing all the hiftories of ...
... character and language to be at least 300 years old . It begins with a general prologue , giving the arguments of forty pageants or gefticulations , ( which were as so many several acts or scenes , ) representing all the hiftories of ...
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... character of a religious fraternity . They were incorporated into a guild or fellowship by King Henry the Third about the year 1240 , under the patronage of Saint Nicho- las.Their profeffion , employment , and character , naturally ...
... character of a religious fraternity . They were incorporated into a guild or fellowship by King Henry the Third about the year 1240 , under the patronage of Saint Nicho- las.Their profeffion , employment , and character , naturally ...
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... characters , fuch as Charity , Sin , Death , Hope , Faith , or the like , and as the common poetry of the times , efpecially among the French , began to deal much in allegory , at length plays were formed entirely confifting of fuch ...
... characters , fuch as Charity , Sin , Death , Hope , Faith , or the like , and as the common poetry of the times , efpecially among the French , began to deal much in allegory , at length plays were formed entirely confifting of fuch ...
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