The British Theatre; Or, A Collection of Plays,: Which are Acted at the Theatres Royal, Drury-Lane, Covent-Garden, and Haymarket ...Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1808 - English drama |
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... PLAYS , WHICH ARE ACTED AT THE THEATRES ROYAL , DRURY LANE , COVENT GARDEN , AND HAYMARKET . PRINTED UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THE MANAGERS FROM THE PROMPT BOOKS . WITH BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL REMARKS , Elizabeth Crimpern ) BY MRS ...
... PLAYS , WHICH ARE ACTED AT THE THEATRES ROYAL , DRURY LANE , COVENT GARDEN , AND HAYMARKET . PRINTED UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THE MANAGERS FROM THE PROMPT BOOKS . WITH BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL REMARKS , Elizabeth Crimpern ) BY MRS ...
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... play is supposed , by some commentators , to have been among Shakspeare's earliest productions ; whilst others will not allow that he had any farther share in the work , than to embellish it with addi- tional words , lines , speeches ...
... play is supposed , by some commentators , to have been among Shakspeare's earliest productions ; whilst others will not allow that he had any farther share in the work , than to embellish it with addi- tional words , lines , speeches ...
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... play , and the entire character of the Abbess Emilia , can be little mistrusted ; though not even in these parts are there any very powerful marks of his genius . This drama was scarcely known on the stage for the REMARKS .
... play , and the entire character of the Abbess Emilia , can be little mistrusted ; though not even in these parts are there any very powerful marks of his genius . This drama was scarcely known on the stage for the REMARKS .
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... plays that are generally performed during every season . In representing the pair of twin brothers on the stage ... play may boast of being comical . It is suggested by a critic , that the following lines , being a translation from ...
... plays that are generally performed during every season . In representing the pair of twin brothers on the stage ... play may boast of being comical . It is suggested by a critic , that the following lines , being a translation from ...
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Abbess Angelo ANTIPHOLIS art thou Arth BENVOLIO blood brother Buck CAPULET Catesby cousin dead dear death didst dost doth DROMIO Duch Duke Egeon England Enter EPHESUS Exeunt Exit Exit ENGLISH eyes fair farewell father Faul FAULCONBRIDGE fear France Friar FRIAR LAWRENCE friends gentle GENTLEMEN GHOST give Glost GLOSTER Graved grief GUILDENSTERN Hamlet hand hath hear heart Heaven holy Horatio Hubert husband Juliet kill'd KING JOHN Lady Laer Laertes Lesbia live look lord LORD STANLEY madam majesty Mercutio mistress mother ne'er never night Nurse Ophelia OSRICK PANDULPH peace Phil play POLONIUS pray Prince Queen Romeo Romeo and Juliet ROSENCRANTZ SCENE sorrow soul speak Stanley sweet tears tell thee There's thine thou art thou hast Tibalt tongue Tressel Trumpets villain wife wilt word
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Page 18 - What may this mean, That thou, dead corse, again in complete steel, Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon, Making night hideous, and we fools of nature So horridly to shake our disposition With thoughts beyond the reaches of our souls?
Page 28 - Sweet, so would I : Yet I should kill thee with much cherishing. Good night, good night ! parting is such sweet sorrow, That I shall say — good night, till it be morrow.
Page 32 - What a piece of work is man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculties! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel ! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? man delights not me; no, nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so.
Page 20 - I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes, like stars, start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part And each particular hair to stand on end, Like quills upon the fretful porcupine : But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood.
Page 45 - No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee Where thrift may follow fawning. Dost thou hear? Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice And could of men distinguish, her election Hath seal'd thee for herself...
Page 79 - No, faith, not a jot; but to follow him thither with modesty enough, and likelihood to lead it; as thus: Alexander died, Alexander was buried, Alexander returneth into dust; the dust is earth; of earth we make loam, and why of that loam, whereto he was converted, might they not stop a beer-barrel?
Page 13 - I, that am curtail'd of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deform'd, unfinish'd, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them...
Page 40 - To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream; ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect...
Page 18 - But to my mind, — though I am native here, And to the manner born, — it is a custom More honour'd in the breach than the observance.
Page 44 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.