Shakespeare in Germany in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries: An Account of English Actors in Germany and the Netherlands, and of the Plays Performed by Them During the Same Period

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Asher & Company, 1865 - Actors - 4 pages
 

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Page 343 - O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, That monthly changes in her circled orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable. ROMEO. What shall I swear by? JULIET. Do not swear at all; Or, if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self, Which is the god of my idolatry, And I'll believe thee.
Page 1 - Jeronimo" or "Andronicus" are the best plays yet, shall pass unexcepted at here, as a man whose judgment shows it is constant, and hath stood still these five and twenty or thirty years.
Page 1 - There is still another place, built in the form of a theatre, which serves for the baiting of bulls and bears; they are fastened behind, and then worried by great English bull-dogs, but not without great risk to the dogs, from the horns of the one and the teeth of the other; and it sometimes happens that they are killed upon the spot; fresh ones are immediately supplied...
Page 225 - Bruder wird erstlich herüber gehalten / er wil reden / aber sie halten jhm das Maul zu. 1°>tu8 schneidet jhm die Gurgel halb abe. ^ Das <IK »'> Blut rennet in das Gefäß / legen jhn da das Blut außgercnnct / todt an die Erden.
Page 301 - Go quick, and fetch a cup of wine to refresh our swords-men a little. Go, Phantasmo, and fetch it. [Descends from the throne. Aside.] I hope they may both drink and die, and that this trick may not become known.

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