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 Seiten |
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... John 1596 1598 1598 16 . King Richard the Second 1596 1597 1596 17. King Henry the Fourth - First Part .. 1597 1596 1596 18 . King Henry the Fourth - Second Part 1598 1597 1596 ::: :::: 22288 24 26 19 . King Henry the Fifth 1599 1597 ...
... John 1596 1598 1598 16 . King Richard the Second 1596 1597 1596 17. King Henry the Fourth - First Part .. 1597 1596 1596 18 . King Henry the Fourth - Second Part 1598 1597 1596 ::: :::: 22288 24 26 19 . King Henry the Fifth 1599 1597 ...
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... John Gay Drury Lane , 1721 .. 98 Lincoln's Inn Fields , 1728. 100 49. The Revenge 50 . The Beggar's Opera 51 . Tom ... John Brown Dr. Benjamin Hoadly Covent Garden , 1747 Drury Lane , .. 118 1753 120 .. Drury Lane , 1754 .. 122 Drury ...
... John Gay Drury Lane , 1721 .. 98 Lincoln's Inn Fields , 1728. 100 49. The Revenge 50 . The Beggar's Opera 51 . Tom ... John Brown Dr. Benjamin Hoadly Covent Garden , 1747 Drury Lane , .. 118 1753 120 .. Drury Lane , 1754 .. 122 Drury ...
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... John Bales ' Comedy of the Three Laws of Nature , 1538 , —in reality a Mystery , -being a disguised satire against Popery , as was also Weever's Morality of Lusty Juventus , written in the reign of Edward VI . The performance of ...
... John Bales ' Comedy of the Three Laws of Nature , 1538 , —in reality a Mystery , -being a disguised satire against Popery , as was also Weever's Morality of Lusty Juventus , written in the reign of Edward VI . The performance of ...
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... 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 and grotesque dialogue . In 1561-62 , Thomas Sackville , Lord ...
... 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 and grotesque dialogue . In 1561-62 , Thomas Sackville , Lord ...
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... John Lyly , the Euphuist ; and Thomas Kyd , whose works contain passages not un- worthy of the best of his successors . These all contributed greatly to advance the improvement and perfection of the English Stage , and though there be ...
... John Lyly , the Euphuist ; and Thomas Kyd , whose works contain passages not un- worthy of the best of his successors . These all contributed greatly to advance the improvement and perfection of the English Stage , and though there be ...
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Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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...
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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.
Seite 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...