The Plays of William Shakspeare, Volume 3Printed and fold by J.J. Tourneisen, 1799 |
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William Shakespeare. AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT THE RISE O F AND PROGRESS O F THE ENGLISH STAGE , AND OF THE ECONOMY AND USAGES OF OUR ANCIENT THEATRES . THE drama before the time of Shakspeare was fo little cultivated , or fo ill understood ...
William Shakespeare. AN HISTORICAL ACCOUNT THE RISE O F AND PROGRESS O F THE ENGLISH STAGE , AND OF THE ECONOMY AND USAGES OF OUR ANCIENT THEATRES . THE drama before the time of Shakspeare was fo little cultivated , or fo ill understood ...
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... English theatres in the time of Shakspeare , ( the principal object of this differtation , ) I fhall take a cursory view of our most ancient dramatick exhibitions , though I fear I can add but little to the researches which have already ...
... English theatres in the time of Shakspeare , ( the principal object of this differtation , ) I fhall take a cursory view of our most ancient dramatick exhibitions , though I fear I can add but little to the researches which have already ...
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... English had in that alfo year gone to Ireland . See Differtation prefixed to Fitz - Stephen's Defcription of London , newly translated , & c . 4to . 1772. p . 16. Near the end of his Defcription is a paf- fage which ascertains it to ...
... English had in that alfo year gone to Ireland . See Differtation prefixed to Fitz - Stephen's Defcription of London , newly translated , & c . 4to . 1772. p . 16. Near the end of his Defcription is a paf- fage which ascertains it to ...
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... the people heard a comedian with much more pleasure than a preacher of the gofpel . " Warton's Hiftory of English Poetry , Vol . I. p . 244. n . MYSTERIES , or facred comedies , and which were foon 8 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT.
... the people heard a comedian with much more pleasure than a preacher of the gofpel . " Warton's Hiftory of English Poetry , Vol . I. p . 244. n . MYSTERIES , or facred comedies , and which were foon 8 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT.
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... English monafteries . I have already mentioned the play of Saint Catharine , performed at Dun- stable Abbey , by the novices in the eleventh cen- tury , under the fuperintendance of Geoffrey a Parifian ecclefiaftick and the exhibition ...
... English monafteries . I have already mentioned the play of Saint Catharine , performed at Dun- stable Abbey , by the novices in the eleventh cen- tury , under the fuperintendance of Geoffrey a Parifian ecclefiaftick and the exhibition ...
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