The Plays of William Shakspeare, Volume 3Printed and fold by J.J. Tourneisen, 1799 |
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... poet , and one of the fathers of the church , banished pagan plays from the ftage at Conftan- tinople , and introduced ftories from the Old and New Teftament . As the ancient Greek tragedy was a religious fpectacle , a tranfition was ...
... poet , and one of the fathers of the church , banished pagan plays from the ftage at Conftan- tinople , and introduced ftories from the Old and New Teftament . As the ancient Greek tragedy was a religious fpectacle , a tranfition was ...
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... poet ( 1564 ) . Suppofing him to have been seven or eight years old when he faw this interlude , the exhibition must have been in 1571 or 1572 . I am unable to afcertain when the first Morality appeared , but incline to think not fooner ...
... poet ( 1564 ) . Suppofing him to have been seven or eight years old when he faw this interlude , the exhibition must have been in 1571 or 1572 . I am unable to afcertain when the first Morality appeared , but incline to think not fooner ...
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... poet to keep the mind in a con- ftant ftate of fufpence and expectation . But in our theatres , there can be no novelty , no furprise : infomuch that the fpectator is more likely to be fatiated with what he has already feen , than to ...
... poet to keep the mind in a con- ftant ftate of fufpence and expectation . But in our theatres , there can be no novelty , no furprise : infomuch that the fpectator is more likely to be fatiated with what he has already feen , than to ...
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... dyvers firaunge landys , & c . In the cof- mographical part of the play , in which the poet 3 Bulengeri de Theatro , 8vo . 1600. Lib . I. p . 60. b . profeffes to treat of dyvers ftraunge landys , and of 36 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT.
... dyvers firaunge landys , & c . In the cof- mographical part of the play , in which the poet 3 Bulengeri de Theatro , 8vo . 1600. Lib . I. p . 60. b . profeffes to treat of dyvers ftraunge landys , and of 36 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT.
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... poet produced thofe plays which have now for two hundred years been the boast and admiration of his countrymen . Our earliest dramas , as we have feen , were re- presented in churches or near them by eccle- fiafticks : but at a very ...
... poet produced thofe plays which have now for two hundred years been the boast and admiration of his countrymen . Our earliest dramas , as we have feen , were re- presented in churches or near them by eccle- fiafticks : but at a very ...
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