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... servants they are , and so to get licence for their publique playing ; and if the mayor like the actors , or would shew respect to their lord and master , he appoints them to play their first play before himself and the aldermen and ...
... servants they are , and so to get licence for their publique playing ; and if the mayor like the actors , or would shew respect to their lord and master , he appoints them to play their first play before himself and the aldermen and ...
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... servants ( of whom Shakespeare was one ) , 45 the Earl of Leicester's players ; those of Lord Warwick , Lord Worcester , Lord Pembroke , & c . There were also certain private adventurers who acted without official licence , and were the ...
... servants ( of whom Shakespeare was one ) , 45 the Earl of Leicester's players ; those of Lord Warwick , Lord Worcester , Lord Pembroke , & c . There were also certain private adventurers who acted without official licence , and were the ...
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... servants of the Earl of Leicester , " to use , exercise and occupie the art and faculty of playeing comedies , tragedies , enterludes , stage- playes , and such other like as they have alredy used and studied , as well for the ...
... servants of the Earl of Leicester , " to use , exercise and occupie the art and faculty of playeing comedies , tragedies , enterludes , stage- playes , and such other like as they have alredy used and studied , as well for the ...
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... servants in 1598. It is noticeable that in a list of the " principal comedians " subjoined to this piece , Shake- speare's name stands first ; unfortunately this list does not specify the character played by each actor , but our poet is ...
... servants in 1598. It is noticeable that in a list of the " principal comedians " subjoined to this piece , Shake- speare's name stands first ; unfortunately this list does not specify the character played by each actor , but our poet is ...
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... servants , Laurence Fletcher , William Shakespeare , Richard Burbage , Augustine Phillippes , John Hemmings , Henrie Condell , William Sly , Robert Armyn , Richard Cowlye , and the rest of their associats , freely 70 The entry in the ...
... servants , Laurence Fletcher , William Shakespeare , Richard Burbage , Augustine Phillippes , John Hemmings , Henrie Condell , William Sly , Robert Armyn , Richard Cowlye , and the rest of their associats , freely 70 The entry in the ...
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Page 471 - Cover your heads, and mock not flesh and blood With solemn reverence : throw away respect, Tradition, form, and ceremonious duty, For you have but mistook me all this while: I live with bread like you, feel want, Taste grief, need friends: subjected thus, How can you say to me I am a king?
Page 374 - Lovers, and madmen, have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, Are of imagination all compact. One sees more devils than vast hell can hold ; That is, the madman : the lover, all as frantic, Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt...
Page 310 - For heaven's sake, Hubert, let me not be bound! Nay, hear me, Hubert: drive these men away, And I will sit as quiet as a lamb; I will not stir, nor wince, nor speak a word, Nor look upon the iron angerly. Thrust but these men away, and I'll forgive you, Whatever torment you do put me to.
Page 168 - Prick'd from the lazy finger of a maid ; Her chariot is an empty hazel-nut Made by the joiner squirrel or old grub, Time out o' mind the fairies' coachmakers. And in this state she gallops night by night Through lovers...
Page 3 - 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," which they thought a malevolent speech.