 Tragedy called the Moor of Venice :" " I came unknown to any of the rest, To tell the news ; I saw the lady drest: The woman plays to-day ; mistake me not, No man in gown, or page in petticoat: A woman to my knowledge, yet I can't, If I should die, make...  Dramatic Table Talk: Or, Scenes, Situations, & Adventures, Serious & Comic ... - Page 45edited by - 1830Full view - About this book
 | William Shakespeare - 1805 - 500 pages
...Jordan, and being only found in a very scarce miscellany, I shall here transcribe them: 84 " A Prologue, to introduce the first woman that came to act on the stage, in the tragedy called The Moor of Venice. " I come, unknown to any of the rest, " To tell you news ; I saw the lady drest : " The woman plays... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1813 - 564 pages
...Jordan, no date, but printed, I believe, in 1662. Jordan was an actor as well as a poet. ** A Prologue, to introduce the first woman that came to act on the stage, in the tragedy called The Moor of Venice. " I come, unknown to any of the rest, " To tell you news; I saw the lady drest : " The woman plays... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 574 pages
...Jordan, and being only found in a very scarce miscellany 4, I shall here transcribe them : " A Prologue, to introduce the first woman that came to act on the stage, in the tragedy called The Moor of Venice. • i . . " I come, unknown to any of the rest, " To tell you news ; I saw the lad}' drest : " The... | |
 | Colley Cibber - Actors - 1822 - 564 pages
...heroine of Davenport's " King John." It seems from a prologue written by Thomas Jordan, expressly " to introduce the first woman that came to act on the stage," that this lady, who performed Desdemma, was an unmarried woman, and as Ann Marshall was the principal... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1823 - 526 pages
...Mr. Malone believes, in 1662. Jordan was an actor as well as a poet. : A Prologue, to introduce tlie first Woman that came to act on the Stage, in the Tragedy called The Moor of Venice. " I come, unknown to any of the rest, To tell you news ; I saw the lady drest : The woman plays to-day... | |
 | Richard Ryan - Actors - 1830 - 348 pages
...character performed by a female, Mr. Malone quotes, from a " very scarce miscellany," a prologue, written by Thomas Gordon, to introduce the first woman that...innovation, and the plea put forward to justify its adoption : — THEATRES " Our women are defective, and so siz'd, You'd think they were some of the guard disguis'd... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1826 - 534 pages
...Malone believes, in 1662. Jordan was an actor as well as a poet. *' A Prologue, to introduce the Jlrst Woman that came to act on the Stage, in the Tragedy called The Moor of Venice. " I come, unknown to any of the rest, To tell you news ; I saw the lady drest : The woman plays to-day... | |
 | Thomas Cromwell - Clerkenwell (London, England) - 1828 - 540 pages
...belonged to this theatre ; for it was Thomas Jordan, an actor at the Red Bull, who wrote " A Prologue, to introduce the first Woman that came to act on the...Stage, in the Tragedy called The Moor of Venice." This was just prior to the Restoration: the name of the "gentle Desdemona" who volunteered to supplant... | |
 | 1839 - 366 pages
...one of the few players and poets who lived to see the restoration of 20 ¡_ THE ALDINE MAGAZINE. 21 first Woman that came to act on the Stage, in the tragedy called the Moor of Venice." From this composition we extract the following lines : — " Our women are defective, and so sized,... | |
 | Charles Knight - London (England) - 1842 - 890 pages
...about the time of the restoration; for one Thomas Jordan, an actor at the Red Bull, wrote a prologue to introduce " the first woman that came to act on the stage " as Desdemona. At what time this theatre was destroyed does not clearly appear; but its site is probably... | |
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