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THE ORIGINAL ACTORS IN SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS . By J. PAYNE COLLIER . PRINTED FOR THE SHAKESPEARE SOCIETY , AND TO BE HAD OF W. SKEFFINGTON , AGENT TO THE SOCIETY , 192 , PICCADILLY . 1853 . OF THE PRINCIPAL ACTORS IN THE PLAYS OF SHAKESPEARE ...
THE ORIGINAL ACTORS IN SHAKESPEARE'S PLAYS . By J. PAYNE COLLIER . PRINTED FOR THE SHAKESPEARE SOCIETY , AND TO BE HAD OF W. SKEFFINGTON , AGENT TO THE SOCIETY , 192 , PICCADILLY . 1853 . OF THE PRINCIPAL ACTORS IN THE PLAYS OF SHAKESPEARE ...
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OF THE PRINCIPAL ACTORS IN THE PLAYS OF SHAKESPEARE . BY J. PAYNE COLLIER , ESQ . , F.S. A. LONDON : 1846 . FREDERICK SHOBERL , JUNIOR , PRINTER TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS. PRINTED FOR THE SHAKESPEARE SOCIETY . MEMOIRS.
OF THE PRINCIPAL ACTORS IN THE PLAYS OF SHAKESPEARE . BY J. PAYNE COLLIER , ESQ . , F.S. A. LONDON : 1846 . FREDERICK SHOBERL , JUNIOR , PRINTER TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS. PRINTED FOR THE SHAKESPEARE SOCIETY . MEMOIRS.
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... printed by the author , that he could have added little to it . With regard to the rest , he has presumed that Heminge and Condell had good reasons for the arrangement they made of the names of their fellow tragedians and come- dians ...
... printed by the author , that he could have added little to it . With regard to the rest , he has presumed that Heminge and Condell had good reasons for the arrangement they made of the names of their fellow tragedians and come- dians ...
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... actor . 2 From MS . Lansd . , 982 , fo . 241 , printed in Birch's " Memoirs of Queen Elizabeth , " it appears , as Mr. Cunningham has pointed out to here take the opportunity of pointing out , for the INTRODUCTION . xi.
... actor . 2 From MS . Lansd . , 982 , fo . 241 , printed in Birch's " Memoirs of Queen Elizabeth , " it appears , as Mr. Cunningham has pointed out to here take the opportunity of pointing out , for the INTRODUCTION . xi.
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... printed in 4to . in 1600 , probably having been first acted in the preceding year ; so that , if Wilson were , as is very likely , the original Balthazar , he was then a boy , no doubt distinguished for his skill , being the son of a ...
... printed in 4to . in 1600 , probably having been first acted in the preceding year ; so that , if Wilson were , as is very likely , the original Balthazar , he was then a boy , no doubt distinguished for his skill , being the son of a ...
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Page 67 - His mind and hand went together ; and what he thought, he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers.
Page 27 - O that Ben Jonson is a pestilent fellow ; he brought up Horace, giving the poets a pill ; but our fellow Shakespeare hath given him a purge, that made him bewray his credit.
Page 145 - IN the name of God, Amen. I William Shakspeare, of Stratford-upon-Avon, in the county of Warwick, gent., in perfect health and memory (God be praised), do make and ordain this my last will and testament in manner and form following : that is to say — First, I commend my soul into the hands of God my Creator, hoping, and assuredly believing, through the only merits of Jesus Christ my Saviour, to be made partaker of life everlasting ; and my body to the earth whereof it is made.
Page 56 - Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night ! Comets, importing change of times and states, Brandish your crystal tresses in the sky, And with them scourge the bad revolting stars That have consented unto Henry's death ! King Henry the Fifth, too famous to live long ! England ne'er lost a king of so much worth.
Page 27 - Few of the university pen plays well; they smell too much of that writer Ovid and that writer Metamorphosis, and talk too much of Proserpina and Jupiter. Why, here's our fellow Shakespeare puts them all down, aye, and Ben Jonson too.
Page 77 - In witness whereof I have hereunto put my hand and seal the day and year first above written.
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Page 53 - But let me not forget one chiefest part Wherein beyond the rest, he moved the heart, The grieved Moor, made jealous by a slave Who sent his wife to fill a timeless grave, Then slew himself upon the bloody bed. All these and many more with him are dead, Thereafter must our poets leave to write.
Page 95 - Kemp, as wel in the favour of her majesty, as in the opinion and good thoughts of the generall audience. Gabriel, Singer, Pope, Phillips, Sly, all the right I can do them is but this, that, though they be dead, their deserts yet live in the remembrance of many. Among so many dead, let me not forget one yet alive, in his time the most worthy, famous Maister Edward Allen.
Page 145 - Elizabeth, my well beloved wife, for and during the term of her natural life; and from and immediately after her decease...