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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... poet , and one of the fathers of the church , banished Pagan plays from the stage at Constan- tinople , and introduced stories from the Old and New Testament . As the ancient Greek tragedy was a religious spectacle , a transition was ...
... poet , and one of the fathers of the church , banished Pagan plays from the stage at Constan- tinople , and introduced stories from the Old and New Testament . As the ancient Greek tragedy was a religious spectacle , a transition was ...
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... poet ( 1564 ) . Supposing him to have been seven or eight years old when he saw this interlude , the exhibition must have been in 1571 or 1572 . 4 I am unable to ascertain when the first Morality appeared , but incline to think not ...
... poet ( 1564 ) . Supposing him to have been seven or eight years old when he saw this interlude , the exhibition must have been in 1571 or 1572 . 4 I am unable to ascertain when the first Morality appeared , but incline to think not ...
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... poet to keep the mind in a con- stant state of suspence and expectation . But in our theatres , there can be no novelty , no surprise : insomuch that the spectator is more likely to be Jul . Cæs . Scaligeri Poetices Libri Septem . Folio ...
... poet to keep the mind in a con- stant state of suspence and expectation . But in our theatres , there can be no novelty , no surprise : insomuch that the spectator is more likely to be Jul . Cæs . Scaligeri Poetices Libri Septem . Folio ...
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... poet professes to treat of dyvers straunge landys , and of the new - found landys , the tracts of America recently discovered , and the manners of the natives are described . The characters are , a Messenger , who speaks the prologue ...
... poet professes to treat of dyvers straunge landys , and of the new - found landys , the tracts of America recently discovered , and the manners of the natives are described . The characters are , a Messenger , who speaks the prologue ...
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... poet that introduced this species of drama ; but this is an undoubted error . I have elsewhere observed that every ... poets had travelled over the ground in which the subjects of several of Shakspeare's other plays may be found . " I ...
... poet that introduced this species of drama ; but this is an undoubted error . I have elsewhere observed that every ... poets had travelled over the ground in which the subjects of several of Shakspeare's other plays may be found . " I ...
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