 | Joseph Quincy Adams - London (England) - 1917 - 560 pages
...Plays, p. 127. In exactly the same words Pope disposed of his share in the Globe. 4 Ibid., p. 230. however, further information is wanting, it is useless...the Peace to examine into the case and to punish the offenders.1 Early in 1604 a draft of a royal patent for Queen Anne's Players — who had hitherto been... | |
 | George Wyndham - English literature - 1919 - 502 pages
...writes to the Middlesex Justices complaining that the players at the Curtain represent on the stage under obscure manner, but yet in such sort as all...the matter and the persons that are meant 'thereby ' : certain gentlemen that are yet alive. 1 I. iii. 140-196. m. iii. 266-292. Cf. supra. 3 Guff s Horn-Book.... | |
 | Morse Shepard Allen - 1920 - 204 pages
...Privy Council on May 10, 1601, records troubles sprung from staging "the persons of some .gentlemen of good desert and quality that are yet alive under obscure manner, but yet in such a sort that all the hearers may take notice both of the matter and the persons that are meant thereby."6... | |
 | Charlotte Carmichael Stopes - Great Britain - 1922 - 580 pages
...gentlemen of good desert and quality that are yet alive, under obscure manner but yet in such sorte that all the hearers may take notice both of the matter and the persons that are meant thereby. All are to be examined " 1 See my Shakespeare's Warwickshire Contemporaries, p. 170. * Journal of the... | |
 | Edmund Kerchever Chambers - Actors - 1923 - 444 pages
...if need be, suppress a play at the Curtain, in which were presented ' the persons of some gentlemen of good desert and quality that are yet alive, under...the hearers may take notice both of the matter and of the persons that are meant thereby '. A rather inexplicable part was taken by players in the wild... | |
 | Edmund Kerchever Chambers - Actors - 1923 - 492 pages
...gentlemen of good desert and quallity that are yet alive under obscure manner, but yet in such sorte as all the hearers may take notice both of the matter and the persons that are meant thereby. This beinge a thinge very unfitte, offensive and contrary to such direccion as have bin heretofore... | |
 | Andrew Gurr - Drama - 1992 - 298 pages
...Curtaine in Moorefeildes do represent upon the stage in their interludes the persons of some gentlemen of good desert and quality that are yet alive under obscure manner, but yet in such sorte as all the hearers may take notice both of the matter and the persons that are meant thereby.18... | |
 | George Bagshawe Harrison - Drama - 1999 - 436 pages
...FORBIDDEN. Great complaint is made that the players at the Curtain represent the persons of some gentlemen of good desert and quality that are yet alive under obscure manner, but in such a sort as the hearers may take note of the matter and the persons. The Justices of Middlesex... | |
 | Glynne Wickham, Herbert Berry, William Ingram - Drama - 2000 - 768 pages
...recite their plays at the Curtain ... do represent upon the stage . . . the persons of some gentlemen of good desert and quality that are yet alive, under...the matter and the persons that are meant thereby. This being a thing very unfit, offensive and contrary to such direction[s] as have been heretofore... | |
 | Janette Dillon - Drama - 2006 - 39 pages
...Curtain in Moorfields do represent upon the stage in their interludes the persons of some gentlemen of good desert and quality, that are yet alive, under...the matter and the persons that are meant thereby. This being a thing very unfit, offensive and contrary to such direction as have been heretofore taken... | |
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Middlesex received a letter from the Privy Council : '. . . We do understand that certain players that use to recite their plays at the Curtain in Moorfields do represent upon the stage in their interludes the persons of some gentlemen of good desert... 
