 | William Shakespeare - 1889 - 470 pages
...1666-7, "To the Duke's house, and saw 'Macbeth,' which though I saw it lately, yet appeal's a most excellent play in all respects, but especially in...tragedy, it being most proper here, and suitable" (vol. iv. 202). This more detailed account seems to imply that there certainly was music and singing,... | |
 | England - 1889 - 922 pages
...took his way to the Duke's house, " and saw Macbeth, which, though I saw it lately, yet appears a most excellent play in all respects, but especially in...tragedy, it being most proper here, and suitable." In the following year, October 16, 1667, he again saw this most excellent play, and " was vexed to... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1889 - 476 pages
...and saw ' Macbeth,' which though I saw it lately, yet appears a most excellent play in all respecta, but especially in divertisement, though it be a deep...tragedy, it being most proper here, and suitable" (vol. iv. 202). This more detailed account seems to imply that there certainly was music and singing,... | |
 | Robert William Lowe - Actors - 1891 - 212 pages
...again went to the Duke's Theatre to see Macbeth, " which, though I saw it lately, yet appears a most excellent play in all respects, but especially in divertisement, though it be a deep tragedy, it being most proper here, and suitable." Three months later (April 19, 1667) Pepys " saw Macbeth,... | |
 | Literature - 1892 - 848 pages
...saw it lately, yet appears a most excellent play in all respects, but especially in alvertisement, though it be a deep tragedy; which is a strange perfection...a tragedy, it being most proper here and suitable ; " in which sagacious comment many a modern critic would insert just the opposite adjectives. " The... | |
 | John Wesley Hales - English literature - 1893 - 392 pages
...he notes: ' To the Duke's house, and saw Macbeth, which, though I saw it lately, yet appears a most excellent play in all respects, but especially in...a tragedy, it being most proper here and suitable : in which sagacious comment many a modern critic would insert just the opposite adjectives. ' The... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1896 - 266 pages
...Jan. 7, 1667: "To the Duke's house, and saw Macbeth, which, though I saw it lately, yet appears a most excellent play in all respects, but especially in divertisement, though it be a deep tragedy; " April 19, 1667: " To the play-house, where we saw Macbeth, which, though I have seen it often, yet... | |
 | Sir Adolphus William Ward - English drama - 1899 - 602 pages
...more elaborate than usual\ ' a most excellent play in all respects, but especially in divertissement, though it be a deep tragedy ; which is a strange perfection...a tragedy, it being most proper here, and suitable ' (Jan. 7, 1667). With Hamlet he was 'mightily pleased' (Aug. 31, 1668). On the other hand, he considered... | |
 | Nineteenth century - 1882 - 1114 pages
...few days afterwards he again saw Macbeth — which, though I saw it but lately,- yet appears a most excellent play in all respects, but especially in...a tragedy, it being most proper here and suitable. The Merry Wives of Windsor, he writes later on, ' did not pleaes me at all in no part of it,' while... | |
 | Thomas R. Lounsbury - 1901 - 510 pages
...several times, was impressed by their appropriateness. He tells us that ' Macbeth ' " appears a most excellent play in all respects, but especially in...tragedy, it being most proper here and suitable." 1 This change of its character affected directly or indirectly the manner in which the play was represented... | |
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Macbeth', which, though I saw it lately, yet appears a most excellent play in all respects, but especially in divertisement, though it be a deep tragedy; which is a strange perfection in a tragedy, it being most proper here, and suitable. 
