The Plays of William Shakespeare: In Twenty-one Volumes, with the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators, to which are Added Notes, Volume 3J. Nichols and Son, 1813 |
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... Italian theatre is the most ancient in Europe , has claimed for his country an honour to which it is not en- titled . The era of the earliest representation in Italy , founded on holy writ , he has placed in the year 1264 , when the ...
... Italian theatre is the most ancient in Europe , has claimed for his country an honour to which it is not en- titled . The era of the earliest representation in Italy , founded on holy writ , he has placed in the year 1264 , when the ...
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... Italy and Constanti- nople and although the Italians , at the time when they may be supposed to have imported plays of this nature , did not understand the Greek language , yet they could understand , and consequently could imitate ...
... Italy and Constanti- nople and although the Italians , at the time when they may be supposed to have imported plays of this nature , did not understand the Greek language , yet they could understand , and consequently could imitate ...
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... Italy till the year 1660 , and the Mystery of Christ's Passion was re- presented at Vienna so lately as the early part of the present century . Having thus occasionally mentioned foreign theatres , I take this opportunity to observe ...
... Italy till the year 1660 , and the Mystery of Christ's Passion was re- presented at Vienna so lately as the early part of the present century . Having thus occasionally mentioned foreign theatres , I take this opportunity to observe ...
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... Italian , and Spanish , have beene tho- roughly ransackt to furnish the playe - houses in London . " Signat . D 5. b . Lodge , his antagonist in this controversy , in his Play of Plays and Pastimes , a work which I have never seen ...
... Italian , and Spanish , have beene tho- roughly ransackt to furnish the playe - houses in London . " Signat . D 5. b . Lodge , his antagonist in this controversy , in his Play of Plays and Pastimes , a work which I have never seen ...
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... Italian and English , printed in 1591 , we have the following dialogue : " G. After dinner we will go see a play . " H. The plaies that they play in England are not right co- medies . " T. Yet they do nothing else but plaie every daye ...
... Italian and English , printed in 1591 , we have the following dialogue : " G. After dinner we will go see a play . " H. The plaies that they play in England are not right co- medies . " T. Yet they do nothing else but plaie every daye ...
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