...understood and imitated the conversation of gentlemen much better. . . . Their plays are now the most pleasant and frequent entertainments of the stage...Jonson's ; the reason is, because there is a certain gayety in their comedies, and pathos in their more serious plays, which suits generally with all men's...

...Beaumont and Fletcher were praised by Dryden in the time of Charles II., when their plays were "the most pleasant and frequent entertainments of the stage,...through the year for one of Shakespeare's or Jonson's." We shall see how in that later Stuart time The Maid's Tragedy was dealt with. As first produced, in...

...entertainments of the stage, two of theirs being acted throughout the year for one of Shakspeare's or Jonson's. The reason is, because there is a certain...in their more serious plays, which suits generally all men's humour. Shakspeare's language is likewise a little obsolete, and Ben Jonson's wit comes short...

...Beaumont and Fletcher ; and Dryden, in speaking of the two latter, says, 'their plays are now the most pleasant and frequent entertainments of the stage,...of theirs being acted through the year for one of Shakspeare's.' The play during the representation of which, in the winter of 1648, the theatre was...

...of gentlemen much better than Shakspeare ; and he states that their plays were, in his day, the most - Shakspeare's or Jonson's.' It was different some forty years previous to this. In 1627, the King's...

...Beaumont and Fletcher were praised by Dryden in the time of Charles II., when their plays were " the most pleasant and frequent entertainments of the stage,...through the year for one of Shakespeare's or Jonson's." We shall see how in that later Stuart time "The Maid's Tragedy" was dealt with. As first produced,...

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...words have since been taken in are rather superfluous than ornamental. Their plays are now the most ter assumes the aspect of a guide or genius Shakspeare's or Jonson's : the reason is, because there is a certain gaiety in their comedies, and...

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...preferred before him," and proceeds to describe the plays of Beaumont and Fletcher as " now the most pleasant and frequent entertainments of the stage...for one of Shakespeare's or Jonson's. The reason," he explains, " is because there is a certain gaiety in their comedies and pathos in their more serious...