English Drama: A Working BasisPress of S. G. Robinson, 1896 - 151 pages |
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Page 149 - I am aware a modern linguist may object that the word book does not at present seem aramatick, but it was once technically so : Gosson, in his Schoole of Abuse, containing a pleasant Invective against Poets, Pipers, Players, Jesters, and such like Caterpillars of a Commonwealth...
Page 151 - A Serious Remonstrance In Behalf of the Christian Religion,, against the Horrid Blasphemies and Impieties which are still used in the English Play-Houses, to the great Dishonour of Almighty God, and in Contempt of the Statutes of this Realm.
Page 96 - The Siege of Rhodes. Made a Representation by the Art of Prospective in Scenes, and the Story sung in Recitative Mustek. At the back part of Rutland House, in the upper end of Aldersgate Street, London.
Page 6 - Six Old Plays, on which Shakspeare founded his Measure for Measure. Comedy of Errors. Taming of the Shrew. King John.
Page 6 - London theatre. A collection of the most celebrated dramatic pieces correctly given, from copies used in the theatres. By Thomas Dibdin of the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
Page 79 - An Examination of the charges maintained by Messrs. Malone, Chalmers, and others, of Ben Jonson's enmity, etc.
Page 110 - Pizarro, a tragedy, taken from the German drama of Kotzebue, and adapted to the English stage by Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Page 7 - THE OLD ENGLISH DRAMA ; a Selection of Plays from the Old English Dramatists.
Page 36 - Esquire. (1) A remembravnce of the wel imployed life, and godly end of George Gaskoigne, Esquire, who deceassed at Stalmford in Lincoln shire, the 7 of October 1577. The reporte of GEOR WHETSTONS, Gent an eye witnes of his Godly and Charitable End in this world.