The Elizabethan Playhouse, and Other StudiesShakespeare head Press, 1912 - 265 páginas |
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Página 129 - Here I observed certaine things that I never saw before. For I saw women acte, a thing that I never saw before, though I have heard that it hath beene sometimes used in London, and they performed it with as good a grace, action, gesture, and whatsoever convenient for a Player, as ever I saw any masculine Actor.
Página 88 - Musicke, who were then esteemed the best of common musitians in London. Whenever I came to that house, (as I did sometimes in those dayes, though not often,) to see a play, the musitians would presently play...
Página 58 - Now ye shall have three ladies walk to gather flowers, and then we must believe the stage to be a garden. By...
Página 214 - The Tragedy of Macbeth, altered by Sir William Davenant; being dressed in all its finery, as new clothes, new scenes, machines, as flyings for the witches, with all the singing and dancing in it: the first composed by Mr. Lock, the other by Mr. Channell and Mr. Joseph Priest; it being all excellently performed, being in the nature of an Opera, it recompensed double the expense: it proves still a lasting play.
Página 198 - Corinthian order ; the wreathings of the columns are beautified with roses wound round them, and several Cupids flying about them. On the cornice, just over the capitals, sits on either side a figure, with a trumpet in one hand and a palm in the other, representing Fame.
Página 58 - By and by we hear news of shipwreck in the same place, and then we are to blame if we accept it not for a rock. Upon the back of that comes out a hideous monster with fire and smoke, and then the...
Página 36 - I, that am glad thy innocence was thy guilt, And wish that all the Muses...
Página 214 - The Tragedy of Macbeth, alter'd by Sir William Davenant; being drest in all it's Finery, as new Cloath's, new Scenes, Machines, as flyings for the Witches; with all the singing and Dancing in it: THE first Compos'd by Mr.
Página 117 - First, for the scene, was drawn a lunbtSeljat) (landscape) consisting of small woods, and here and there a void place filled with huntings; which falling, an artificial sea was seen to shoot forth...
Página 146 - Whitehall, and all sorts of people flocking thither, and paying their money as at a common play-house ; nay, even a twelvepenny gallery is builded for the convenience of his Majesty's poorer subjects'.