The Complete Works of William Shakespeare: The Cambridge Text from the Latest Edition of William Aldis Wright; with Introductions, Notes and Glossaries to Each Play by Israel Gollancz. The Complete Notes, with Variorum Readings and General Glossary of Alexander Dyce; a General Introduction, and a Bibliography by W. J. Rolfe; a History of the Drama, and General Criticism by Henry N. Hudson and Others, and a Complete Character Index, Volume 20Colonial Press, 1901 |
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... actors were well known ; for one of the regulations found in the Burton Annals has the following , under the date of 1258 : " Actors may be entertained , not because they are actors , but because of their poverty ; and let not their ...
... actors were well known ; for one of the regulations found in the Burton Annals has the following , under the date of 1258 : " Actors may be entertained , not because they are actors , but because of their poverty ; and let not their ...
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... acting plays founded on Scripture , as conflicting with the interest of the clergy , who had incurred expense in getting up a set of plays on similar sub jects . And we learn from Stowe that in 1391 the parish clerks of London performed ...
... acting plays founded on Scripture , as conflicting with the interest of the clergy , who had incurred expense in getting up a set of plays on similar sub jects . And we learn from Stowe that in 1391 the parish clerks of London performed ...
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... actors ; the old custom being broken up most likely by the progress of the Reformation . Further information on the subject is supplied by Dean Colet , who in 1511 delivered an oratio ad clerum at St. Paul's , in which he complains that ...
... actors ; the old custom being broken up most likely by the progress of the Reformation . Further information on the subject is supplied by Dean Colet , who in 1511 delivered an oratio ad clerum at St. Paul's , in which he complains that ...
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... acting was taken up as a distinct profession , and regular companies of actors were formed ; but of these we shall have to speak more hereafter . That churches and chapels of monasteries were at first , and for a long time after , used ...
... acting was taken up as a distinct profession , and regular companies of actors were formed ; but of these we shall have to speak more hereafter . That churches and chapels of monasteries were at first , and for a long time after , used ...
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... actors ; while the performance was on the upper stage where it could be seen by all the spectators . Sometimes the lower stage seems to have been used for hell , the devils rising out of it , or sinking into it , as occasion required ...
... actors ; while the performance was on the upper stage where it could be seen by all the spectators . Sometimes the lower stage seems to have been used for hell , the devils rising out of it , or sinking into it , as occasion required ...
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