 | Samuel Frederick Johnson - Drama - 1989 - 316 pages
...excellent play for variety." Pepys, Diary: "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." Pepys, Diary: "Here we saw Macbeth, which though I have seen it often, yet is it one of the best plays... | |
 | Clive Barker, Simon Trussler - Drama - 1992 - 100 pages
...playhouse of the Restoration. Samuel Pepys describes an operatic version of Macbeth that was 'a most excellent play in all respects, but especially in...perfection in a tragedy, it being most proper here, and suitable'.11 And, in 1708, John Downes's Roscius Anglicanus testified to the continued success of Macbeth... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - Biography & Autobiography - 1997 - 820 pages
...Gresham College. 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. 9th. In a hackney-coach to White Hall, the way being most horribly bad upon the breaking up of the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 1997 - 308 pages
...also knowing only Davenant's adapted spectacle, identified a singular oddity: the play 'appears a most excellent play in all respects, but especially in...perfection in a tragedy, it being most proper here and suitable'.5 An anonymous pamphlet. An Essay on Acting. . . of a certain fashionable faulty actor .... | |
 | Stanley Wells - Drama - 2003 - 354 pages
...response changed dramatically. It was, at various times, 'a most excellent play for variety'; 'a most excellent play in all respects, but especially in...tragedy, it being most proper here and suitable'; and finally, 'one of the best plays for a stage, and a variety of dancing and music, that I ever saw'.4... | |
 | Stephen Orgel, Sean Keilen - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 356 pages
...production: "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" (p. 453). Pepys knows what he is supposed to think about "divertisement" in tragedy; but the critical... | |
 | Barbara A. Murray - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 316 pages
...most excellent play for variety." The following month he returned and noted that it "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." The theaters had been closed due to the plague between June... | |
 | Stephen Orgel - English drama - 2002 - 300 pages
...response changed dramatically. It was, at various times, 'a most excellent play for variety'; 'a most excellent play in all respects, but especially in...tragedy, it being most proper here and suitable'; and finally, 'one of the best plays for a stage, and a variety of dancing and music, that I ever saw.'... | |
 | Catherine M. S. Alexander - 488 pages
...response changed dramatically. It was, at various times, 'a most excellent play for variety'; 'a most excellent play in all respects, but especially in...tragedy, it being most proper here and suitable'; and finally, 'one of the best plays for a stage, and a variety of dancing and music, that I ever saw'.4... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Drama - 2004 - 252 pages
...popular. Pepys saw it in 1 666, and was so delighted that he returned ten days later, and found it 'a most excellent play in all respects, but especially in...divertisement, though it be a deep tragedy; which is a strange thing in a tragedy, it being most proper here and suitable' (Diary, 7 January; vol. vm, p. 7). Three... | |
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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. 
