The Rehearsal: With Illustrations from Previous Plays, EtcAlex. Murray, 1868 - 136 pages |
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... Stage , by JOHN DOWNES . In a prefatory Addrefs To the Reader , ' he 6 gives the following account of himself : - The Editor of the enfuing Relation , being long Converfant with the Plays and Actors of the Original Company , under the ...
... Stage , by JOHN DOWNES . In a prefatory Addrefs To the Reader , ' he 6 gives the following account of himself : - The Editor of the enfuing Relation , being long Converfant with the Plays and Actors of the Original Company , under the ...
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... stage soon after the Restoration . The then general state of society and town life is defcribed in the third chapter of Lord ' Macaulay's Hiflory of England . At prefent we have only to deal with one particular fashion of dramatic ...
... stage soon after the Restoration . The then general state of society and town life is defcribed in the third chapter of Lord ' Macaulay's Hiflory of England . At prefent we have only to deal with one particular fashion of dramatic ...
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... stage . The allufions to Sir Robert Howard's tragedies are fo few and inconfiderable , that he never could have been the author's prin- cipal object .. -As foon as it was refolved that Dryden should be the hero , an abundant use was ...
... stage . The allufions to Sir Robert Howard's tragedies are fo few and inconfiderable , that he never could have been the author's prin- cipal object .. -As foon as it was refolved that Dryden should be the hero , an abundant use was ...
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... stage some nine or ten years , when the Duke of Buckingham undertook to expose their abfurdities in The Rehearsal , produced in the winter of 1671. It is faid that he was affifted in the defign by Butler , Sprat , Clifford , and others ...
... stage some nine or ten years , when the Duke of Buckingham undertook to expose their abfurdities in The Rehearsal , produced in the winter of 1671. It is faid that he was affifted in the defign by Butler , Sprat , Clifford , and others ...
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... stage , which was first published in 1698 , whereas the Duke died in 1687. He also speaks of the Rehearsal as having flourished in print two and thirty years , which brings it down to the year 1704 , when the first edition of the KEY ...
... stage , which was first published in 1698 , whereas the Duke died in 1687. He also speaks of the Rehearsal as having flourished in print two and thirty years , which brings it down to the year 1704 , when the first edition of the KEY ...
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Act v. p. Battel BAYES becauſe Brentford buſineſs Cloris Colig Company conceipt Conquest of Granada D'Avenant Dance deſign Dryden Duke of Buckingham earl earl of Rutland edition Enter Exeunt Exit fame farce felf fhall fhew firſt fleep fome fuch fure Gentlemen George Villiers GERARD LANGBAINE himſelf Hoft Honour JOHNS juſt King King's King's Company Lardella laſt London lord Fairfax Love moſt Mufick muſt know Nakar never obſerve papyr Percy perſon Phab Phys Play Players pleaſe Plot Poets pray preſently Pret Prince Pretty-man Prince Volfcius printed Profe Prologue queſtion reaſon Rehearsal ſay SCENA Scene ſelf servant ſhall ſhe ſhould Siege of Rhodes ſome ſpeak Stage ſtate ſtay ſtill Theatre thee themſelves There's theſe things thoſe thou troth Tyrannick Love underſtand uſe Verſe Vols vow to gad we'l whiſper William Davenant writ write you'l