The Life and Beauties of Shakespeare: Comprising Careful Selections from Each Play, with a General Index, Digesting Them Under Proper Heads |
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BEAUTIES should be so obscured , and that he himself should be made a kind of stage , for bungling critics to show their clumsy activity upon . It was my first intention to have considered each play critically and regularly through all ...
BEAUTIES should be so obscured , and that he himself should be made a kind of stage , for bungling critics to show their clumsy activity upon . It was my first intention to have considered each play critically and regularly through all ...
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It is said , in a book called a Manuscript History of the Stage , which is supposed by Malone to have been written between 1727 and 1730 , " that the learned Mr. Joshua Barnes , late Greek professor of the University of Cambridge ...
It is said , in a book called a Manuscript History of the Stage , which is supposed by Malone to have been written between 1727 and 1730 , " that the learned Mr. Joshua Barnes , late Greek professor of the University of Cambridge ...
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... or prompter's attendant ; whose employment it is , to give the performers notice to be ready to enter , as often as the business of the play requires their attendance upon the stage ; while another account , which has descended in a ...
... or prompter's attendant ; whose employment it is , to give the performers notice to be ready to enter , as often as the business of the play requires their attendance upon the stage ; while another account , which has descended in a ...
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About that time , the attention of the public began to be more generally directed to the stage ; and it throve admirably ... in the early part of the reign of Elizabeth , been exhibited on temporary stages , erected in such halls or ...
About that time , the attention of the public began to be more generally directed to the stage ; and it throve admirably ... in the early part of the reign of Elizabeth , been exhibited on temporary stages , erected in such halls or ...
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Sixpence , also , was the price paid for stools upon the stage ; and these seats , as we learn from Decker's Gull's Hornbook , were peculiarly affected by the wits and critics at the time . The conduct of the audience was less ...
Sixpence , also , was the price paid for stools upon the stage ; and these seats , as we learn from Decker's Gull's Hornbook , were peculiarly affected by the wits and critics at the time . The conduct of the audience was less ...
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