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 xxiii
... present themselves , I am Shakspeare's boy , sir . In time , Shakspeare found higher employment , but as long as the practice of riding to the play - house continued , the waiters that held the horses retained the appellation of ...
... present themselves , I am Shakspeare's boy , sir . In time , Shakspeare found higher employment , but as long as the practice of riding to the play - house continued , the waiters that held the horses retained the appellation of ...
Page xxvi
... present the curtain divided the audience from the actors ; which , at the third sounding , not indeed of the bell , but of the trumpet , was drawn for the commencement of the per- formance . Malone has puzzled himself and his readers ...
... present the curtain divided the audience from the actors ; which , at the third sounding , not indeed of the bell , but of the trumpet , was drawn for the commencement of the per- formance . Malone has puzzled himself and his readers ...
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... present day , assisted in following the progress of the story , by means of painted and movable scenery . This opinion is confirmed by the ancient stage directions . In the folio Shakspeare , of 1623 , we read , " Enter Brutus , in his ...
... present day , assisted in following the progress of the story , by means of painted and movable scenery . This opinion is confirmed by the ancient stage directions . In the folio Shakspeare , of 1623 , we read , " Enter Brutus , in his ...
Page xxix
... representation at the time of Shak- speare and at present . In his day , the female parts were performed by boys : this custom , which must in many cases have materially injured the allusion of the scene , was WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE . xxix .
... representation at the time of Shak- speare and at present . In his day , the female parts were performed by boys : this custom , which must in many cases have materially injured the allusion of the scene , was WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE . xxix .
Page xxxi
... present notice would appear to warrant , because it affords the means of ascertaining the time when Shak- speare commenced writer for the stage . If Titus Andronicus be really his , as I suppose , he became an author immediately on ...
... present notice would appear to warrant , because it affords the means of ascertaining the time when Shak- speare commenced writer for the stage . If Titus Andronicus be really his , as I suppose , he became an author immediately on ...
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