Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems, Volume 1Whittaker, 1858 |
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Page vi
... theatre was situated in that parish , and it seems not unlikely that Edward Shakespeare was an actor in an estab- lishment , erected in competition with those in which our great dramatist was always interested . Another point I have ...
... theatre was situated in that parish , and it seems not unlikely that Edward Shakespeare was an actor in an estab- lishment , erected in competition with those in which our great dramatist was always interested . Another point I have ...
Page vii
... theatre , and of Sir Gilly Meyrick , who was present at the performance there , which examinations are now for the first time printed , show that the " Richard the Second , " or Henry the Fourth , " ( for it is mentioned by both titles ) ...
... theatre , and of Sir Gilly Meyrick , who was present at the performance there , which examinations are now for the first time printed , show that the " Richard the Second , " or Henry the Fourth , " ( for it is mentioned by both titles ) ...
Page xxxv
... theatres were in- variably averse to the practice . The appearance of a popular drama from the press not only ... theatre , with as much dispatch as well practised actors could learn their parts . It remains for me to state , that ...
... theatres were in- variably averse to the practice . The appearance of a popular drama from the press not only ... theatre , with as much dispatch as well practised actors could learn their parts . It remains for me to state , that ...
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... theatres . No blame for the omission can fairly be imputed to our predecessors , because the earliest specimens of this sort of mixed drama , which remain to us , have been brought to light within a comparatively few years . The most ...
... theatres . No blame for the omission can fairly be imputed to our predecessors , because the earliest specimens of this sort of mixed drama , which remain to us , have been brought to light within a comparatively few years . The most ...
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... theatres by the Puritans . John Heywood , in all probability , died about the time that Thomas Heywood was born . 1 One of the latest pieces without mixture of history or fable , and consisting wholly of abstract personages , is , " The ...
... theatres by the Puritans . John Heywood , in all probability , died about the time that Thomas Heywood was born . 1 One of the latest pieces without mixture of history or fable , and consisting wholly of abstract personages , is , " The ...
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