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 xxvii
... stage , from which , in many of the old plays , part of the dialogue was spoken ; and that there was a private box ... stage has placed them . Malone was pos- sessed with an opinion , that the use of scenes was unknown in the early years ...
... stage , from which , in many of the old plays , part of the dialogue was spoken ; and that there was a private box ... stage has placed them . Malone was pos- sessed with an opinion , that the use of scenes was unknown in the early years ...
Page xxviii
... stage furniture . Mr. Gifford , who adheres to Malone's opinion , says , " a table with a pen and ink thrust in , signified that the stage was a counting - house ; if these were withdrawn , and two stools put in their places , it was ...
... stage furniture . Mr. Gifford , who adheres to Malone's opinion , says , " a table with a pen and ink thrust in , signified that the stage was a counting - house ; if these were withdrawn , and two stools put in their places , it was ...
Page xxix
... stage was not so defective in the necessary decorations as some antiquarians of great authority would represent . " It may be added , " says Steevens , " that the dialogue of Shakspeare has such perpetual reference to ob- jects supposed ...
... stage was not so defective in the necessary decorations as some antiquarians of great authority would represent . " It may be added , " says Steevens , " that the dialogue of Shakspeare has such perpetual reference to ob- jects supposed ...
Page xxx
... stage , and capable of doing justice to the princely sentiments of Arviragus or Guiderius . Such then was the state of the stage when Shakspeare en- tered into its service , in the double capacity of actor and author . As an author ...
... stage , and capable of doing justice to the princely sentiments of Arviragus or Guiderius . Such then was the state of the stage when Shakspeare en- tered into its service , in the double capacity of actor and author . As an author ...
Page xxxi
... stage , produce as heavy and monotonous a performance as Titus Andronicus ? I have been rather more diffuse upon this subject , than the nature of the present notice would appear to warrant , because it affords the means of ascertaining ...
... stage , produce as heavy and monotonous a performance as Titus Andronicus ? I have been rather more diffuse upon this subject , than the nature of the present notice would appear to warrant , because it affords the means of ascertaining ...
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