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Page xv
The Sun's Darling , " in its present state , was performed in 1624 ; but not printed till 1658 , when the long persecution of the stage ( fortunately for the lovers of the old drama ) compelled the actors to have recourse to the press ...
The Sun's Darling , " in its present state , was performed in 1624 ; but not printed till 1658 , when the long persecution of the stage ( fortunately for the lovers of the old drama ) compelled the actors to have recourse to the press ...
Page xvi
I suspect that this was the foundation of the present Masque , and that Decker was the author of it . If it be so , the incongruous nature of the fable is easily accounted for , by the additions which other poets , and above all our ...
I suspect that this was the foundation of the present Masque , and that Decker was the author of it . If it be so , the incongruous nature of the fable is easily accounted for , by the additions which other poets , and above all our ...
Page xvii
... and may have been the foundation of the present work , with a more popular name : -for Edmonton had already given a " Devil to the delighted stage ; " and INTRODUCTION . xvii.
... and may have been the foundation of the present work , with a more popular name : -for Edmonton had already given a " Devil to the delighted stage ; " and INTRODUCTION . xvii.
Page xxii
The present play has neither prologue nor epilogue ; but in the dedication to the Earl of Peterborough , who had openly manifested his satisfaction with the piece on its first appearance , ( when the actors exerted themselves with such ...
The present play has neither prologue nor epilogue ; but in the dedication to the Earl of Peterborough , who had openly manifested his satisfaction with the piece on its first appearance , ( when the actors exerted themselves with such ...
Page xxiii
could scarcely be ; as ( to omit all mention of those in which he joined with Decker ) one of his dramas was performed at court nearly twenty years before the date of the present , * which bears besides tokens of a mind habituated to ...
could scarcely be ; as ( to omit all mention of those in which he joined with Decker ) one of his dramas was performed at court nearly twenty years before the date of the present , * which bears besides tokens of a mind habituated to ...
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