Some Principles of Elizabethan Staging ...

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University of Chicago Press, 1905 - English drama - 63 pages
 

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Page 599 - Let there be a Brazen Head set in the middle of the place behind the stage, out of the which cast flames of fire. Drums rumble within. Enter two PRIESTS.
Page 612 - I have purposely omitted and left out some fond and frivolous gestures, digressing and, in my poor opinion, far unmeet for the matter, which I thought might seem more tedious unto the wise than any way else to be regarded, though haply they have been of some vain, conceited fondlings greatly gaped at, what times they were showed upon the stage in their graced deformities.
Page 602 - God t' untie th' unlikely knot; The stage was still a stage, two entrances Were not two parts o' the world, disjoin 'd by seas. Thine were land-tragedies no prince was found To swim a whole scene out then o...
Page 78 - Now will I descend my honourable prospect ; the farthest seeing sea-mark of the world ; no marvel, then, if I could see two miles about me. I hope the red tempest's anger be now over-blown, which sure, I think, Heaven sent as a punishment for profaning holy Saint Luke's memory with so ridiculous a custom. Thou dishonest satire ! farewell...
Page 82 - Thou ^mother of chaste dew, night's modest lamp, Thou by whose faint shine the blushing lovers Join glowing cheeks, and mix their trembling lips In vows well kiss'd, rise all as full of...
Page 613 - I must answer before it be objected ; 'tis this. When these comedies and tragedies were presented on the stage, the actors omitted some scenes and passages, with the authors' consent, as occasion led them ; and when private friends desired a copy, they then, and justly too, transcribed what they acted...
Page 613 - ... consent, as occasion led them ; and when private friends desired -a copy, they then, and justly too, transcribed what they acted : but now you have both all that was acted, and all that was not ; even the perfect full originals, without the least mutilation...
Page 607 - Highest, aloft, and on the Top of the Musick Tree the Title The Faery Pastorall, Beneath him pind on Post of the Tree The Scene Eluida Forrest. Lowest of all ouer the Canopie NAPAIT-BODAION or Faery Chappell.
Page 602 - Gorboduck, how much more in al the rest ? where you shal have Asia of the one side, and Affrick of the other, and so many other under-kingdoms, that the Player, when he commeth in, must ever begin with telling where he is : or els, the tale wil not be conceived.
Page 73 - A history of the Duke of Millayn and the Marques of Mantua shewed at Whitehall on St. Stephens daie at nighte enacted by the Lord...

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