 | Samuel Schoenbaum - 1987 - 420 pages
...majesty, even to the matting of the stage; the Knights of the Order with their Georges and garters, the Guards with their embroidered coats, and the like:...masque at the Cardinal Wolsey's house, and certain chambers [ie pieces of ordnance] being shot off at his entry, some of the paper, or other stuff, wherewith... | |
 | J. R. Mulryne, Margaret Shewring - 1993 - 296 pages
...values is not merely Sir Henry Wotton's grumpy remark that Henry VIIFs mimicry of court practices was 'sufficient in truth within a while to make Greatness very familiar, if not ridiculous', 26 perceptive as that remark is about the perils of demystification in a hierarchical society. The... | |
 | Peter C. Herman - 1994 - 332 pages
...majesty, even to the matting of the stage; the Knights of the Order with their Georges and garters, the Guards with their embroidered coats, and the like:...masque at the Cardinal Wolsey's house, and certain chambers being shot off at his entry, some of the paper, or other stuff, wherewith one of them was... | |
 | Laurel Brake - 1995 - 170 pages
...majesty, even to the matting of the stage; the Knights of the Order, with their Georges and garters, the Guards with their embroidered coats, and the like:...to make greatness very familiar, if not ridiculous. (Smith 1907, 32-3) Wotton is clearly concerned that pomp without distance becomes revealing and therefore... | |
 | Louis Montrose - 1996 - 246 pages
...majesty, even to the matting of the stage; the Knights of the order with their Georges and garters, the Guards with their embroidered coats, and the like:...within a while to make greatness very familiar, if not ridiculous.8' 83. Letter to Sir Edmund Bacon, 2 July 1613, in Logan Pearsall Smith, The Life and Letters... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1998 - 302 pages
...include divine ones. Indeed, to Sir Henry Wotton in 1614, the first performance of All is True was 'sufficient in truth within a while to make greatness very familiar, if not ridiculous'.1 Shakespeare and the King's Men were, for this spectator, approaching too close to the... | |
 | J. R. Mulryne, Margaret Shewring, Andrew Gurr - 1997 - 208 pages
...majesty, even to the matting of the stage; the Knights of the Order with their Georges and garters, the Guards with their embroidered coats, and the like:...masque at the Cardinal Wolsey's house, and certain chambers being shot off at his entry, some of the paper, or other stuff, wherewith one of them was... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 1997 - 438 pages
...not ridiculous. Now, King Henry making a masque at the Cardinal Wolsey's house, and certain chambers being shot off at his entry, some of the paper or other stuff wherewith one of them was stopped did light on the thatch, where being thought at first but an idle... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2008 - 246 pages
...majesty, even to the matting of the stage; the Knights of the Order with their Georges and garter, the Guards with their embroidered coats, and the like...masque at the Cardinal Wolsey's house, and certain chambers being shot off at his entry, some of the paper, or other stuff, wherewith one of them was... | |
 | C. Walter Hodges - 2004 - 204 pages
...forth with many extraordinary circumstances of pomp and majesty, even to the matting of the stage . . . Now, King Henry making a masque at the Cardinal Wolsey's house, and certain chambers being shot off at his entry, some of the paper or other material wherewith one of them was... | |
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Garters, the guards with their embroidered coats, and the like— sufficient in truth within a while to make greatness very familiar if not ridiculous. Now, King Henry making a masque at the Cardinal Wolsey's house, and certain cannons being shot off... 
