 | Sir Granville George Greenwood - 1909 - 172 pages
...but without any particular account of what sort of parts he us'd to play ; and tho' I have inquir'd, I could never meet with any further account of him...way, than that the top of his performance was the ghost in Hamlet." This seems to throw cold water on Canon Beeching's theory that Shakspere derived... | |
 | Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence - 1910 - 312 pages
...but without any particular Account of what sort of Parts he us'd to play ; and tho' I have inquir'd I could never meet with any further Account of him...this way than that the top of his Performance was the Ghost in his own Hamlet." The humblest scene-shifter could play this character, as we shall shew later.... | |
 | Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence - 1910 - 320 pages
...but without any particular Account of what sort of Parts he us'd to play; and tho' I have inquir'd I could never meet with any further Account of him...this way than that the top of his Performance was the Ghost in his own Hamlet." The humblest scene-shifter could play this character, as we shall shew later.... | |
 | Sir Edwin Durning-Lawrence - 1914 - 112 pages
...but without any particular account of what sort of Parts he used to play ; and tho* I have inquir'd, I could never meet with any further Account of him...way, than that the top of his Performance was the Ghost in his own Hamlet." As a lay figure on wheels can perform the part of the Ghost in Hamlet, this... | |
 | Basil Brown - Gesta Grayorum - 1921 - 394 pages
...but without any particular account of what sort of parts he used to play; and though I have enquired, I could never meet with any further account of him...way, than that the top of his performance was the Ghost in his own Hamlet. I should have been much more pleased to have learned, from certain authority,... | |
 | Edmund Arnold Greening Lamborn, George Bagshawe Harrison - Dramatists, English - 1923 - 140 pages
...but without any particular account of what sort of parts he us'd to play; and tho' I have inquir'd, I could never meet with any further account of him...way, than that the top of his performance was the ghost in his own Hamlet.' Thus Rowe. Aubrey's account is : ' This William being inclined naturally... | |
 | Sir Granville George Greenwood - 1925 - 140 pages
...without any particular account of what sort of parts he used to play, and, though I have inquired, I could never meet with any further account of him...way, than that the top of his performance was the Ghost in his own Hamlet ! " No, it was not as an actor, but as owner of shares in the Globe and the... | |
 | Clara Longworth comtesse de Chambrun - 1927 - 392 pages
...but without any particular Account of what sort of Parts he used to play; and tho' I have inquired I could never meet with any further Account of him...way, than that the top of his Performance was the Ghost in his own Hamlet. I should have been much more pleas'd, to have learn'd from some certain Authority,... | |
 | Edward Aloysius Pace, Thomas Edward Shields - Catholic schools - 1916 - 492 pages
...but without any particular account of what sort of parts he used to play; and though I have enquired, I could never meet with any further account of him...way, than that the top of his performance was the Ghost in his own Hamlet." •Cf. "The Diary of Master William Silence" by DH Madden, Longmans, 1897,... | |
 | James Phinney Baxter - Computers - 1915 - 790 pages
...but without any particular account of what sort of parts he used to play; and though I have enquired, I could never meet with any further account of him...way, than that the top of his performance was the Ghost in his own Hamlet.1 This testimony to Shakspere's inferiority in histrionic ability is further... | |
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His name is printed, as the custom was in those times, amongst those of the other players, before some old plays, but without any particular account of what sort of parts he... 
