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 WoodMaurice and Company, and pub. by Hurst, Chance and E. Wilson, 1831 - 204 עמודים |
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תוצאות 1-5 מתוך 87
עמוד xi
... piece , whose part was to leap upon his shoulders , and beat him with his wooden dag- ger till he made him roar . The stages of the ancient Mysteries , called Pageant - houses , con- sisted of large and high frame - carriages , mounted ...
... piece , whose part was to leap upon his shoulders , and beat him with his wooden dag- ger till he made him roar . The stages of the ancient Mysteries , called Pageant - houses , con- sisted of large and high frame - carriages , mounted ...
עמוד xii
... piece which appears like a regular COMEDY , was produced in 1552 , by John Still , afterwards Bishop of Bath and Wells . It was acted at Christ's College , Cambridge , is entitled Gammar Gurton's Needle , and abounds in familiar humour ...
... piece which appears like a regular COMEDY , was produced in 1552 , by John Still , afterwards Bishop of Bath and Wells . It was acted at Christ's College , Cambridge , is entitled Gammar Gurton's Needle , and abounds in familiar humour ...
עמוד xiii
... piece of ground formerly called Red Bull Yard , near the upper end of St. John's Street , Clerkenwell . Upon removing from the last - named house , the King's Company performed * & * 3 & # 333 & “ * 34 * 3 * 3 & * 3 xiii.
... piece of ground formerly called Red Bull Yard , near the upper end of St. John's Street , Clerkenwell . Upon removing from the last - named house , the King's Company performed * & * 3 & # 333 & “ * 34 * 3 * 3 & * 3 xiii.
עמוד 4
... piece is considered to be less figurative and more natural than any of the author's dramas ; which , with it's abrupt conclusion , has been considered a proof of it's early composition . Sir Thomas Hanmer , Upton , & c . have doubted if ...
... piece is considered to be less figurative and more natural than any of the author's dramas ; which , with it's abrupt conclusion , has been considered a proof of it's early composition . Sir Thomas Hanmer , Upton , & c . have doubted if ...
עמוד 10
... piece is supposed to pass between the morning and sunset of a single day . The earliest edition of this Comedy is in the folio collection of 1623 , but it is mentioned by Meres in 1598 ; and , partly from a possible allusion to the ...
... piece is supposed to pass between the morning and sunset of a single day . The earliest edition of this Comedy is in the folio collection of 1623 , but it is mentioned by Meres in 1598 ; and , partly from a possible allusion to the ...
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acted at Drury-Lane action actors admired afterwards alteration appeared applause attributed Bannister Barry called celebrated character Charles Cibber Colman Comedy comic commences Coriolanus DAVID GARRICK death Dowton Drury-Lane Duke Duke's Theatre edition eminent England ENGLISH STAGE entered at Stationers entertainment Epilogue excellent exhibited Falstaff Fanny Kemble Farce February folio Garrick Haymarket Henry IV humour J. P. Kemble J. R. Planché Jane Shore King Henry Lady Lincoln's Inn Fields London Lord Macklin Malone Miss modern stage nights October old play Opera original performers originally produced Oroonoko perhaps plot Pope present drama present piece Prince principal printed probably produced at Covent-Garden produced at Drury-Lane Prologue published quarto Queen Rackett racter Red Bull Theatre revived scene is laid season Shakspeare's Siddons songs story success supposed talent thee Theophilus Cibber Thomas thou Tom Thumb Tragedy whilst William Davenant WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE written Young
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עמוד 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...
עמוד 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.
עמוד 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...
עמוד 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.
עמוד 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.
עמוד 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.
עמוד 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.
עמוד 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.
עמוד 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.
עמוד 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...