A Select Collection of Old Plays: God's promisesJ. Nichols, 1780 - English drama |
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Page xxxvii
... against Mummers , in which the penalty for felling vifors , or keep- ing them in any houfe , was zo fhillings each vilor . Vide Statutes . D. VOL . I. fucceffors d fucceffors does in part ftill , in mimickry and humour MR . DODSLEY'S ...
... against Mummers , in which the penalty for felling vifors , or keep- ing them in any houfe , was zo fhillings each vilor . Vide Statutes . D. VOL . I. fucceffors d fucceffors does in part ftill , in mimickry and humour MR . DODSLEY'S ...
Page lviii
... against Poets , Pipers , Players , Jefters , and fuch like Ca- terpillars of the Commonwealth : dedicated to Sir Philip Sydney . He also wrote , Plays confuted in five Actions : proving that they are not to be fuffered in a Chriftian ...
... against Poets , Pipers , Players , Jefters , and fuch like Ca- terpillars of the Commonwealth : dedicated to Sir Philip Sydney . He also wrote , Plays confuted in five Actions : proving that they are not to be fuffered in a Chriftian ...
Page lxv
... against Ben Jonson are these two lines : Let Lowin ceafe , and Taylor fcorn to touch The loathed ftage , for thou haft made it fuch . Lowin , though fomething later than Burbage , is faid to have been the first actor 36 of Hamlet , and ...
... against Ben Jonson are these two lines : Let Lowin ceafe , and Taylor fcorn to touch The loathed ftage , for thou haft made it fuch . Lowin , though fomething later than Burbage , is faid to have been the first actor 36 of Hamlet , and ...
Page lxvii
... against plays , players , and all who favoured them , by William Prynne 37 , efq ; a barrister of Lincoln's - Inn . The best way the parties concerned thought of , in answer to this Work , was to publish all the best old Plays that ...
... against plays , players , and all who favoured them , by William Prynne 37 , efq ; a barrister of Lincoln's - Inn . The best way the parties concerned thought of , in answer to this Work , was to publish all the best old Plays that ...
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time prevailed ; Prynne's Book was deemed an infamous libel both against the church and state , aginft the peers , prelates , and magistrates ; and particularly against the king and queen , where he fays , that princes dancing in their ...
time prevailed ; Prynne's Book was deemed an infamous libel both against the church and state , aginft the peers , prelates , and magistrates ; and particularly against the king and queen , where he fays , that princes dancing in their ...
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Page xlv - By and by we hear news of shipwreck in the same place, and then we are to blame if we accept it not for a rock. Upon the back of that comes out a hideous monster with fire and smoke, and then the miserable beholders are bound to take it for a cave. While in the meantime two armies fly in, represented with four swords and bucklers, and then what hard heart will not receive it for a pitched field?
Page xxxvii - The country people flock from all sides many miles off, to hear and see it. For they have therein devils and devices, to delight as well the eye as the ear.
Page xiv - ... whose names will be revered by posterity ; by most of whom he was loved as much for the virtues of his heart, as he was admired on account of his writings.
Page 83 - ... being acted with mighty state and reverence by the friars of this house, had theaters for the several! scenes, very large and high, placed upon wheels, and drawn to all the eminent parts of the city, for the better advantage of spectators : and contain'd the story of the New Testament, composed into old English Rithme, as appeareth by an ancient MS. intituled Ludus Cffrporis Chrtsti, or ZWws Conventria. I have been told...
Page xcv - ... after this time. They were now a great deal more upon their guard; indecencies were no longer wit; and, by degrees, the fair sex came again to fill the boxes on the first day of a new comedy, without fear or censure.
Page 141 - I despeire that ever time could winne him frend to me, then saw I how he smiled with slaying knife wrapped under cloke, then saw I depe deceite lurke in his face and death prepared for me ; even nature moved me then to holde my life more...
Page xxxix - But the moralities were also very often concerned wholly in religious matters ; for religion then was every one's concern, and it was no wonder if each party employed all arts to promote it. Had they been in use now, they would, doubtless, have turned as much upon politics.
Page lxvii - That, the women's parts in plays have hitherto been acted by men in the habits of women, at which some have taken offence, we do permit, and give leave, for the time to come, that all women's parts be acted by women.
Page lvii - He had all the parts of an excellent orator, animating his words with speaking and speech with action, his auditors being never more delighted than when he spoke nor more sorry than when he held his peace, yet even then he was an excellent actor still, never falling in his part when he had done speaking but with his looks and gesture maintaining it still unto the height...
Page xlvi - ... upon a footing with the other nations of Europe. But now, as it were, all at once (as it happened in France, though in a much later period), the true drama received birth and perfection from the creative genius of Shakspeare, Fletcher...