The Plays of William Shakspeare, Volume 3Printed and fold by J.J. Tourneisen, 1799 |
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... Italian theatre is the moft ancient in Europe , has claimed for his country an honour to which it is not entitled . 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 moft ancient in Europe , has claimed for his country an honour to which it is not entitled . 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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... Italians ; who framed , in the depth of the dark ages , on this foundation , that barba- rous fpecies of theatrical reprefentation called 6 " At Conftantinople " as Mr. Warton has elsewhere ob- ferved , it feems that the ftage ...
... Italians ; who framed , in the depth of the dark ages , on this foundation , that barba- rous fpecies of theatrical reprefentation called 6 " At Conftantinople " as Mr. Warton has elsewhere ob- ferved , it feems that the ftage ...
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... Italy and Conftanti- 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 confequently could imitate ...
... Italy and Conftanti- 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 confequently could imitate ...
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... Italy till the year 1660. and the Mystery of Chrift's Paffion was repre- 9 of the controverfial writers . " They play " fays one of them , " and counterfeite the whole Paffion fo trimly , with all the feven forrowes of our lady , as ...
... Italy till the year 1660. and the Mystery of Chrift's Paffion was repre- 9 of the controverfial writers . " They play " fays one of them , " and counterfeite the whole Paffion fo trimly , with all the feven forrowes of our lady , as ...
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... Italian , and Spanish , have beene thoroughly ranfackt to furnish the playe - houfes in London . Signat . D. 5. b . " 66 Lodge , his antagonist in this controverfy , in his Play of Plays and Paftimes , a work which I have never feen ...
... Italian , and Spanish , have beene thoroughly ranfackt to furnish the playe - houfes in London . Signat . D. 5. b . " 66 Lodge , his antagonist in this controverfy , in his Play of Plays and Paftimes , a work which I have never feen ...
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