Shakspere: His Times and ContemporariesG. Kershaw and son, 1852 - 224 pages |
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... tragedy , in which Shak- spere , that mighty master of the human heart , so pow- erfully impresses upon us the Godliness of love and friendship , by showing up , in all its hideous deformity , the fiendishness , the heart - blighting ...
... tragedy , in which Shak- spere , that mighty master of the human heart , so pow- erfully impresses upon us the Godliness of love and friendship , by showing up , in all its hideous deformity , the fiendishness , the heart - blighting ...
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... tragedies and comedies were doomed to banishment by priestly intolerance , and in their places were substituted those ridiculous pieces of blas- phemy and buffoonery , called mysteries or miracle - plays . All their curses of " bell ...
... tragedies and comedies were doomed to banishment by priestly intolerance , and in their places were substituted those ridiculous pieces of blas- phemy and buffoonery , called mysteries or miracle - plays . All their curses of " bell ...
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... Tragedy is of a rather later date ; the earliest known specimen being the " Tragedy of Ferrex and Porrex , " performed before Queen Elizabeth , at Whitehall , by the gentlemen of the Inner Temple , in the January of 1561 . It was ...
... Tragedy is of a rather later date ; the earliest known specimen being the " Tragedy of Ferrex and Porrex , " performed before Queen Elizabeth , at Whitehall , by the gentlemen of the Inner Temple , in the January of 1561 . It was ...
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... tragedy . One of his most famous parts was that of Barabas , in Kit Marlow's " Rich Jew of Malta , " in which character he is said to have won for himself the title of Peerless . Nor was fame , or celebrity in his own day , the only ...
... tragedy . One of his most famous parts was that of Barabas , in Kit Marlow's " Rich Jew of Malta , " in which character he is said to have won for himself the title of Peerless . Nor was fame , or celebrity in his own day , the only ...
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... rhyme , is this year acted at Christ's Church , Cambridge ; and , at Oxford , we find Queen Eliza- beth witnessing the performance of the first English tragedy on a classical subject , - " Damon and Pythias 59 SHAKSPERE'S THIRD YEAR .
... rhyme , is this year acted at Christ's Church , Cambridge ; and , at Oxford , we find Queen Eliza- beth witnessing the performance of the first English tragedy on a classical subject , - " Damon and Pythias 59 SHAKSPERE'S THIRD YEAR .
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