Studies of Shakspere: Forming a Companion Volume to the National Edition of the Pictorial ShakspereCharles Knight, 1851 - 560 pages |
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... play , and saw all the pageants played save one , which could not be played because night drew on ; the triumphant Richard III . came to see the Corpus Christi plays ; and Henry VII . much commended themt . In these Corpus Christi plays ...
... play , and saw all the pageants played save one , which could not be played because night drew on ; the triumphant Richard III . came to see the Corpus Christi plays ; and Henry VII . much commended themt . In these Corpus Christi plays ...
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... play for them . The fol- lowing entry appears in the city accounts : — " Paid to Mr Smythe of Oxford the xyth daye ... play - book and pricking the songs ; for money spent at the first rehearsal and the second rehearsal ; for supper on ...
... play for them . The fol- lowing entry appears in the city accounts : — " Paid to Mr Smythe of Oxford the xyth daye ... play - book and pricking the songs ; for money spent at the first rehearsal and the second rehearsal ; for supper on ...
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... Plays in the British Museum ; and a transcript of Garrick's copy is in the Bodleian Library . " UPON A STAGE PLAY , WHICH I SAW WHEN I WAS A CHILD . The " In the city of Gloucester the manner is ( as I think it is in other like ...
... Plays in the British Museum ; and a transcript of Garrick's copy is in the Bodleian Library . " UPON A STAGE PLAY , WHICH I SAW WHEN I WAS A CHILD . The " In the city of Gloucester the manner is ( as I think it is in other like ...
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... Play . It dispenses with impersonations of Good and Evil ; Iniquity holds no troversy with Charity , and the Devil is not brought in to buffet or to be buffeted . The play is written in rhymed verse , and very ambitiously written . The ...
... Play . It dispenses with impersonations of Good and Evil ; Iniquity holds no troversy with Charity , and the Devil is not brought in to buffet or to be buffeted . The play is written in rhymed verse , and very ambitiously written . The ...
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... play was printed about the year 1570 , although we believe that this con- jecture fixes the date at least ten years ... plays of the early stage . It is cha- racterised , also , by the absence of that melo- dramatic extravagance which ...
... play was printed about the year 1570 , although we believe that this con- jecture fixes the date at least ten years ... plays of the early stage . It is cha- racterised , also , by the absence of that melo- dramatic extravagance which ...
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