 | James H. Forse - Theater - 1993 - 314 pages
...and sober attention of the audiences, and the fact that the only casualties from the Globe fire were "a few forsaken cloaks; only one man had his breeches set on fire, that, a provident wit put it out with bottle ale," testifies that even under threatening conditions, playgoers... | |
 | James H. Forse - Theater - 1993 - 314 pages
...and sober attention of the audiences, and the fact that the only casualties from the Globe fire were "a few forsaken cloaks; only one man had his breeches set on fire, that, a provident wit put it out with bottle ale," testifies that even under threatening conditions, playgoers... | |
 | Colin Butler - Drama - 2005 - 217 pages
...ran round like a train, consuming within less than an hour the whole house to the very grounds. . . . [O]nly one man had his breeches set on fire, that would perhaps have broyled him, if he had not by the benefit of a provident wit put it out with bottle Ale.22 "Chambers"... | |
 | A. W. Ward, A. R. Waller - Literary Criticism - 1969 - 428 pages
...' (on the roof over the galleries). The house was burned to the ground within less than an hour. ' Yet nothing did perish but wood and straw, and a few forsaken cloaks.' Another contemporary statement says that the escape of the audience was marvellous, 'having but two... | |
 | Archaeology - 1885 - 316 pages
...inwardly and ran round like a train, consuming in less than an hour the whole House to the very ground ; nothing did perish but wood and straw, and a few forsaken cloaks, and one man had his breeches set on fire." Another letter : " But it was a great marvel and grace of... | |
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... was stopped, did light on the thatch, where being thought at first but an idle smoak, and their eyes more attentive to the show, it kindled inwardly, and ran round like a train, consuming within less than an hour the whole house to the very ground.... 
