Studies of Shakspere: Forming a Companion Volume to the National Edition of the Pictorial ShakspereCharles Knight, 1851 - 560 pages |
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... performance- " A link to set the world on fire , " following " Paid for the barrel for the earthquake . " We may readily believe that the time was fast approaching when such pageants would no longer be tolerated . It is more than ...
... performance- " A link to set the world on fire , " following " Paid for the barrel for the earthquake . " We may readily believe that the time was fast approaching when such pageants would no longer be tolerated . It is more than ...
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... performances is from the re- collection of a man who was born in the same year as William Shakspere . In 1639 R. W. ( R. Willis ) , stating his age to be se- venty - five , published a little volume , called ' Mount Tabor , ' which ...
... performances is from the re- collection of a man who was born in the same year as William Shakspere . In 1639 R. W. ( R. Willis ) , stating his age to be se- venty - five , published a little volume , called ' Mount Tabor , ' which ...
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... performance at Gloucester when he was six or seven years of age . It evidently belongs to that class of moral plays which were of the simplest construction . And yet it was popular long after the English drama had reached its highest ...
... performance at Gloucester when he was six or seven years of age . It evidently belongs to that class of moral plays which were of the simplest construction . And yet it was popular long after the English drama had reached its highest ...
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... performances of an itinerant com- pany at this period we will select an example of " Comedy . " con- ' A Pleasant ... performance . It appears to us , on the contrary , that the ordinary craft of a cunning knave — a little , restless ...
... performances of an itinerant com- pany at this period we will select an example of " Comedy . " con- ' A Pleasant ... performance . It appears to us , on the contrary , that the ordinary craft of a cunning knave — a little , restless ...
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... performance of which opinion , ―when spectacles of a dramatic cha- " in the afternoon " resorted men that are racter had ceased to be employed as instru- their own masters , as gentlemen of the court , ments of religious instruction ...
... performance of which opinion , ―when spectacles of a dramatic cha- " in the afternoon " resorted men that are racter had ceased to be employed as instru- their own masters , as gentlemen of the court , ments of religious instruction ...
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