The Life and Beauties of Shakespeare: Comprising Careful Selections from Each Play, with a General Index, Digesting Them Under Proper HeadsPhillips, Sampson, 1849 - 345 pages |
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Page xxvi
... Shakespeare. roof was open to the weather . This was the company's sum- mer theatre ; and the plays were acted by daylight : at the Blackfriars , on the contrary , which was the winter theatre , the top was entirely closed , and the ...
... Shakespeare. roof was open to the weather . This was the company's sum- mer theatre ; and the plays were acted by daylight : at the Blackfriars , on the contrary , which was the winter theatre , the top was entirely closed , and the ...
Page xxix
... Shakespeare. woods . " " Enter Timon , from his cave . " In Coriolanus : " Marcius follows them to the gates , and is shut in . " Innu- merable instances of the same kind might be cited , to prove that the ancient stage was not so ...
... Shakespeare. woods . " " Enter Timon , from his cave . " In Coriolanus : " Marcius follows them to the gates , and is shut in . " Innu- merable instances of the same kind might be cited , to prove that the ancient stage was not so ...
Page xxxii
... Shakespeare. the principal supports of the company to which he was attached . Pericles , if the work of Shakspeare , was probably his next dramatic production . Dryden has most unequivocally attrib- uted this play to Shakspeare , and he ...
... Shakespeare. the principal supports of the company to which he was attached . Pericles , if the work of Shakspeare , was probably his next dramatic production . Dryden has most unequivocally attrib- uted this play to Shakspeare , and he ...
Page xxxiv
... Shakespeare. original authors ; and Robert Greene , in his Groatsworth of Wit , himself a writer for the stage , in admonishing his fellow - dramatists to abandon their pursuit , and apply them- selves to some more profitable vocation ...
... Shakespeare. original authors ; and Robert Greene , in his Groatsworth of Wit , himself a writer for the stage , in admonishing his fellow - dramatists to abandon their pursuit , and apply them- selves to some more profitable vocation ...
Page xxxv
... Shakespeare. the man , and do honor his memory , on this side idolatry , as much as any . He was , indeed , honest , and of an open and free nature , had an excellent fancy , brave notions , and gentle expressions ; wherein he flowed ...
... Shakespeare. the man , and do honor his memory , on this side idolatry , as much as any . He was , indeed , honest , and of an open and free nature , had an excellent fancy , brave notions , and gentle expressions ; wherein he flowed ...
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