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Other editions - View allCommon terms and phrasesacted actors aforesaid Bankside Bear Garden Beeston Blackfriars Brayne building called Chamber Chapel Children Christopher Beeston Cockpit Collier Curtain Cuthbert Burbage documents Dramatic Poetry 1879 Drury Lane Dulwich Dulwich College E. K. Chambers Earl Edward Alleyn Elizabeth English Dramatic Poetry erected Evans feet Fleay Fortune Fortune Playhouse friars galleries Giles Globe Playhouse Greg Hall hath Heminges Henry Henslowe Papers Henslowe's Diary Herbert History of English Ibid James Burbage John Keysar King's lease license London Theatres Lord Mayor Majesty Majesty's Malone Society's Collections manager Map of London March Nathaniel Field October patent Paul's performances play players Prince Charles's printed Privy Council Queen records Red Bull referred Revels Richard Richard Burbage rooms Rose Rosseter royal Salisbury Court seems Shakespeare Society's Papers share stage Stow's Annals Street Swan Thomas tion troupe unto Variorum View of London vols Wallace warrant Whitefriars Whitehall William Davenant Popular passagesPage 252 - True,' representing some principal pieces of the reign of Henry VIII., which was set forth with many extraordinary circumstances of pomp and majesty, even to the matting of the stage ; the Knights of the Order, with their Georges and... Page 209 - Nay, their endeavour keeps in the wonted pace : but there is, sir, an aery of children, little eyases, that cry out on the top of question, and are most tyrannically clapped for 't : these are now the fashion, and so berattle the common stages— so they call them— that many wearing rapiers are afraid of goose-quills and dare scarce come thither. Page 207 - CHILD OF QUEEN ELIZABETH'S CHAPEL'. Weep with me, all you that read This little story ; And know, for whom a tear you shed Death's self is sorry. 'Twas a child that so did thrive In grace and feature, As Heaven and Nature seemed to strive Which owned the creature. Page 330 - God quit you, or bless you ! In witness whereof, as you have preposterously put to your seals already, which is your money, you will now add the other part of suffrage, your hands. The play shall presently begin. And though the Fair be not kept in the same region that some here, perhaps, would have it; yet think, that therein the author hath observed a special decorum, the place being as dirty as Smithfield, and as stinking every whit. Page 132 - To this Entertainment, there often follows that of whipping a blinded bear, which is performed by five or six men, standing circularly with whips, which they exercise upon him without any mercy, as he cannot escape from them because of his chain : he defends himself with all his force and skill, throwing down all who come within his reach, and are not active enough to get out of it, and tearing the whips out of their hands, and breaking them. Page 226 - O, it will get us a huge deal of money, captain, and we have need on't ; for this winter has made us all poorer than so many starved snakes : nobody comes at us ; not a gentleman, nor a Tuc. Page 132 - To this entertainment there often follows that of whipping a blinded Bear, which is performed by five or six men, standing circularly, with whips, which they exercise upon him without any mercy, as he cannot escape from them because of his chain. He defends himself with all his force and skill, throwing down all who come within his reach, and are not quite active enough to get out of it, and tearing the Whips out of their hands and breaking them. Page 131 - There is still another place, built in the form of a Theatre, which serves for the baiting of Bulls and Bears ; they are fastened behind, and then worried by great English bull-dogs; but not without great... Page 363 - They made up one company out of all the scattered members of several, and in the winter before the King's murder, 1648, they ventured to act some plays, with as much caution and privacy as could be at the Cockpit. They continued undisturbed for three or four days; but, at last, as they were presenting the tragedy of the Bloody Brother... Page 253 - ... out by a peal of chambers (that I know not upon what occasion were to be used in the play), the tampin or stopple of one of them lighting in the thatch that covered the house... References from web pagesInternet Archive: Details: Shakespearean playhouses : a history of ... Shakespearean Playhouses: A History of English Theatres from the ... Shakespearean Playhouses by Joseph Quincy Adams - Free ebook JSTOR: Shakespearean Playhouses. A History of English Theatres ... The Online Books Page: Shakespearean Playhouses: A History of ... The Project Gutenberg ebook of Shakespearean Playhouses, by Joseph ... Mobipocket ebook: "SHAKESPEAREAN PLAYHOUSES - A History of English ... PLAYERS IN THE PARISH OF ST. GILES IN THE FIELDS Bibliographic information
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