The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes, Volume 3J. Nichols and Son, 1813 |
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... publick spectacles or popular amusements were established ; and as the sedentary pleasures of domestick life and private society were yet unknown , the fair - time was the season for diversion . In proportion as these shews were ...
... publick spectacles or popular amusements were established ; and as the sedentary pleasures of domestick life and private society were yet unknown , the fair - time was the season for diversion . In proportion as these shews were ...
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... publick presentation of that play at the ensuing Christmas . About twelve years after- wards , the Parish Clerks of London , as Stowe in- forms us , performed spiritual plays at Skinner's Well for three days successively , in the ...
... publick presentation of that play at the ensuing Christmas . About twelve years after- wards , the Parish Clerks of London , as Stowe in- forms us , performed spiritual plays at Skinner's Well for three days successively , in the ...
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... publick pageants of the reign of King Henry the Sixth were uncommonly splendid ; and being then first enlivened by the introduction of speaking al- legorical personages properly and characteristically habited , they naturally led the ...
... publick pageants of the reign of King Henry the Sixth were uncommonly splendid ; and being then first enlivened by the introduction of speaking al- legorical personages properly and characteristically habited , they naturally led the ...
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... publick theatre , nor was there at that time any building in London constructed solely for the purpose of representing plays . Of the latter piece , which , as Mr. Warton has observed , is perhaps " the first specimen in our language of ...
... publick theatre , nor was there at that time any building in London constructed solely for the purpose of representing plays . Of the latter piece , which , as Mr. Warton has observed , is perhaps " the first specimen in our language of ...
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... publick theatres ; viz . The Globe on the Bank- side , The Curtain2 in Shoreditch , The Red Bull , at the upper end of St. John's Street , and The Fortunes This theatre had been originally a Cockpit . It was built or rebuilt not very ...
... publick theatres ; viz . The Globe on the Bank- side , The Curtain2 in Shoreditch , The Red Bull , at the upper end of St. John's Street , and The Fortunes This theatre had been originally a Cockpit . It was built or rebuilt not very ...
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