 | Kolachelam Rao S. - 1986 - 342 páginas
...It is this king that gave sanction for women to appear on the stage in the following royal rescript. "Whereas the women's parts in plays have, hitherto, been acted by men in habits of women, at which some have taken offence, We do permit and give leave from this time to come... | |
 | Alice Ida Perry Wood - 1909 - 214 páginas
...officially recognized as members of the theatrical companies. It is stated in D'Avenant's patent thus: " Whereas the women's parts in plays have hitherto been acted by men, at which some have taken offence, we do give leave that for the time to come all women's parts be acted... | |
 | Forrest Izard - 1915 - 440 páginas
...to employ none but women to represent female characters: "Whereas" — the royal patents read, — "the women's parts in plays have hitherto been acted...of women, at which some have taken offense, we do give leave that for the time to come all women's parts be acted by women." In a year or so the "boy-actresses"... | |
 | Allardyce Nicoll - 1923 - 420 páginas
...acted do contain several prophane, obscene, and scurrilous passages, and the women parts therein have been acted by men in the habits of women, at which some have taken offence ; for the preventing of these abuses for the future we do strictly charge, command, and enjoin... | |
 | Sheldon Cheney, Edith Juliet Rich Isaacs - 1927 - 542 páginas
...acted do contain several prophane, obscene, and scurrilous passages, and the women parts therein have been acted by men in the habits of women, at which some have taken offence; for the preventing of these abuses for the future we do strictly charge, command, and enjoin... | |
 | J. L. Styan - 1986 - 292 páginas
...contained the following operative sentence: Forasmuch as ... the women's parts [in many plays] have been acted by men in the habits of women, at which some have taken offence, ... we do ... permit and give leave that all the women's parts to be acted in either of the... | |
 | James H. Forse - 1993 - 314 páginas
...until the closing of the theatres in 1642. He himself obtained the clause in his patent which specifies "That, whereas the women's parts in plays have hitherto been acted by men in the habits of women, of which some have taken offence, we permit and give leave for the time to come, that all women's parts... | |
 | James H. Forse - 1993 - 314 páginas
...until the closing of the theatres in 1642. He himself obtained the clause in his patent which specifies "That, whereas the women's parts in plays have hitherto been acted by men in the habits of women, of which some have taken offence, we permit and give leave for the time to come, that all women's parts... | |
 | Ruth B. Emde - 1997 - 418 páginas
...Schauspielerinnen dessen ungeachtet offiziell und als tugendhaft anerkannt: „The women's parts therin have been acted by men in the habits of women, at which some have taken offence; for the preventing of these abuses for the future we do strictly charge, command and enjoin... | |
 | Martin White - 1998 - 282 páginas
...II, when Sir William Davenant obtained the following clause in his patent for his theatre company: That, whereas the women's parts in plays have hitherto been acted by men in the habits of women, of which some have taken offence, we permit and give leave for the time to come, that all women's parts... | |
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That, the women's parts in plays have hitherto been acted by men in the habits of women, at which some have taken offence, we do permit, and give leave, for the time to come, that all women's parts be acted by women. 
