Prefaces. The tempest. The two gentlemen of Verona. The merry wives of Windsor.- v.2. Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour lost.- v.3. Midsummer night's dream. Merchant of Venice. As you like it. Taming the shrew.- v.4. All's well that ends well. Twelfth night. Winter's tale. Macbeth.- v.5 King John. King Richrd II. King Henry IV, parts I-II.- v.6. King Henry V. King Henry VI, parts I-III.- v.7 King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Coriolanus.- v.8. Julius Cæsar. Anthony and Cleopatra. Timon of Athens. Titus Andronicus.- v. 9. Troilus and Cressida. Cymbeline. King Lear.- v. 10. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. OthelloC. Bathurst, 1778 |
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... stage but that of Shakespeare . The theatre , when it is under any other direction , is peo- pled by fuch characters as were never feen , converfing in a language which was never heard , upon topicks which will never arife in the ...
... stage but that of Shakespeare . The theatre , when it is under any other direction , is peo- pled by fuch characters as were never feen , converfing in a language which was never heard , upon topicks which will never arife in the ...
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... stage is only a stage , and that the players are only players . They come to hear a certain number of lines recited with juft gefture and elegant modulation , The lines relate to fome action , and an action must be be in fome place ...
... stage is only a stage , and that the players are only players . They come to hear a certain number of lines recited with juft gefture and elegant modulation , The lines relate to fome action , and an action must be be in fome place ...
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... stage fomething must be done as well as faid , and inactive declamation is very coldly heard , however musical or elegant , paffionate or fublime . Voltaire expreffes his wonder , that our author's extravagancies are endured by a nation ...
... stage fomething must be done as well as faid , and inactive declamation is very coldly heard , however musical or elegant , paffionate or fublime . Voltaire expreffes his wonder , that our author's extravagancies are endured by a nation ...
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... by the players . A change of fcene , with Shakespeare , moft commonly implies a change of place , but always , an entire evacuation of the the stage . The custom of diftinguishing every en- trance ADVERTISEMENT to the READER .
... by the players . A change of fcene , with Shakespeare , moft commonly implies a change of place , but always , an entire evacuation of the the stage . The custom of diftinguishing every en- trance ADVERTISEMENT to the READER .
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William Shakespeare Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed. the stage . The custom of diftinguishing every en- trance or exit by a fresh fcene , was adopted , perhaps very idly , from the French theatre . For the length of many ...
William Shakespeare Samuel Johnson, George Steevens, Isaac Reed. the stage . The custom of diftinguishing every en- trance or exit by a fresh fcene , was adopted , perhaps very idly , from the French theatre . For the length of many ...
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