Bacon and Shakespeare: An Inquiry Touching Players, Playhouses, and Play-writers in the Days of ElizabethJ. R. Smith, 1857 - 166 sidor |
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... actors of which he was an active member . No one single manuscript has ever been found to identify Shakespeare as the author of these productions ; nor is there , among all the records and traditions handed down to us , any statement ...
... actors of which he was an active member . No one single manuscript has ever been found to identify Shakespeare as the author of these productions ; nor is there , among all the records and traditions handed down to us , any statement ...
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... actors and a public playhouse . But the writing of plays , as the acting of them , was considered by the better sort " a toy , " which might be practised as a pastime and recreation , but which conferred neither honour nor distinction ...
... actors and a public playhouse . But the writing of plays , as the acting of them , was considered by the better sort " a toy , " which might be practised as a pastime and recreation , but which conferred neither honour nor distinction ...
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... actor in speaking the verse . " This doubtless was the fact ; and Jonson , having noted it down , and neglected to destroy or expunge it , his executors found it after his death , and published it with his other writings , thus ...
... actor in speaking the verse . " This doubtless was the fact ; and Jonson , having noted it down , and neglected to destroy or expunge it , his executors found it after his death , and published it with his other writings , thus ...
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... Acting plays for the diversion and entertainment of the court , the gentry , and any others , is become a calling whereby many get their living . How lawfully , is another question . Players in former times were retainers , and none had ...
... Acting plays for the diversion and entertainment of the court , the gentry , and any others , is become a calling whereby many get their living . How lawfully , is another question . Players in former times were retainers , and none had ...
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... acting whereof certain public places , as the Theatre , the Curtain , & c . were erected . They played also in inns , as the Cross Keys , the Bull , the Globe , & c . But this which was once a recreation , and used therefor now and then ...
... acting whereof certain public places , as the Theatre , the Curtain , & c . were erected . They played also in inns , as the Cross Keys , the Bull , the Globe , & c . But this which was once a recreation , and used therefor now and then ...
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Bacon and Shakespeare: An Inquiry Touching Players, Playhouses, and Play ... William Henry Smith Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1857 |
Bacon and Shakespeare: An Inquiry Touching Players, Playhouses, and Play ... William Henry Smith Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1857 |
Bacon and Shakespeare: An Inquiry Touching Players, Playhouses, and Play ... William Henry Smith Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1857 |
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Sida 30 - The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room: Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give.
Sida 72 - King Henry, making a masque at the Cardinal Wolsey's house, and certain cannons being shot off at his entry, some of the paper or other stuff wherewith one of them was stopped, did light on the thatch...
Sida 20 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; .and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Sida 32 - Sweet Swan of Avon! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our James!
Sida 31 - Yet must I not give nature all: thy art, My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part. For though the poet's matter nature be. His art doth give the fashion ; and that he Who casts to write a living line, must sweat, (Such as thine are) and strike the second heat...
Sida 27 - His wit was in his own power, would the rule of it had been so too. Many times he fell into those things, could not escape laughter: as when he said in the person of Caesar, one speaking to him, 'Caesar, thou dost me wrong.
Sida 76 - Lady in generall termes, telling him what shee liked best in him, and prescribing his gesture in smiling, his apparaile, &c., and then when he came to practise making him believe they tooke him to be mad.
Sida 31 - To whom all Scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of an age, but for all time...
Sida 26 - I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, Would he had blotted a thousand.
Sida 70 - By and by we hear news of shipwreck in the same place, and then we are to blame if we accept it not for a rock. Upon the back of that comes out a hideous monster with fire and smoke, and then the miserable beholders are bound to take it for a cave. While in the mean time two armies fly in, represented with four swords and bucklers, and then what hard heart will not receive it for a pitched field?