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The life of Christopher Marlowe. Tamberlaine the Great, pts. I-II. The Jew ... - Page v
by Christopher Marlowe - 1826
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Modern Philology, Volume 2

Electronic journals - 1904 - 644 pages
...disquieting: From the printer's address, Tamburlainc, 1592: I have purposely omitted and left out some fond and frivolous gestures, digressing, and, in my...to be regarded, though haply they have been of some vain-conceited fondlings greatly gaped at, what time they were showed upon the stage in their graced...
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Christopher Marlowe and His Associates

John H. Ingram - Dramatists, English - 1904 - 332 pages
...Histories,' in which he, or some one over his signature, says, ' I have purposely omitted and left out some fond and frivolous gestures, digressing and, in my...to be regarded, though haply they have been of some vain-conceited fondlings greatly gaped at what time they were shewed upon the stage in their graced...
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Some Principles of Elizabethan Staging ...

George Fullmer Reynolds - English drama - 1905 - 82 pages
...disquieting: From the printer's address, Tamburlaine, 1592: I have purposely omitted and left out some fond and frivolous gestures, digressing, and, in my...to be regarded, though haply they have been of some vain-conceited fondlings greatly gaped at, what time they were showed upon the stage in their graced...
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Some Principles of Elizabethan Staging ...

George Fullmer Reynolds - English drama - 1905 - 86 pages
...disquieting : From the printer's address, Tamburlaine, 1592: I have purposely omitted and left out some fond and frivolous gestures, digressing, and, in my...to be regarded, though haply they have been of some vain-conceited fondlings greatly gaped at, what time they were showed upon the stage in their graced...
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A Literary History of the English People from the Renaissance to the Civil ...

Jean Jules Jusserand - English literature - 1909 - 668 pages
...second and third Blast of retrait from Plaies," 1580, in Hazlitt, "English Drama and Stage." p. 138. gaped at what time they were shewed upon the stage in their graced deformities" (1590). — Generally speaking, exuberance, spontaneity, fancy. — Reserve and self-possession were...
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The Cambridge History of English Literature: The drama to 1642

Sir Adolphus William Ward, Alfred Rayney Waller - English literature - 1910 - 536 pages
...who tells us apologetically, in his edition of Tamburlaine, that he ' purposely omitted . . . some fond and frivolous gestures, digressing, and, in my poor opinion, far unmeet for the matter.' He saw the ' disgrace ' of mixing these things in print ' with such matter of worth.' The bias for...
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The English Drama in the Age of Shakespeare

Wilhelm Michael Anton Creizenach - Literary Criticism - 1916 - 488 pages
...fail to offend the taste of understanding men, ' though haply they have been of some vain-conceited fondlings greatly gaped at, what time they were shewed upon the stage in their graced deformities.' Hall, the satirist, also reports (in 1597) that at the acting of the piece the tyrant's outbursts of...
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An Image of Shakespeare

Frank James Mathew - 1922 - 462 pages
...frivolous gestures, disguising and in my opinion far unmeet for the matter, which I thought might prove more tedious unto the wise than any way else to be...conceited fondlings greatly gaped at, what time they were showed upon the Stage in their graced deformities : nevertheless now to be mixtured in print with such...
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A Literary History of the English People from the Origins to the ..., Volume 2

Jean Jules Jusserand - English literature - 1926 - 666 pages
...second and third Blast of retrait from Plaies," 1580, in Haelitt, "English Drama and Stage," p. 138. gaped at what time they were shewed upon the stage in their graced deformities" (1590). — Generally speaking, exuberance, spontaneity, fancy. — / Reserve andTelf-possession were...
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Tamburlaine the Great

Christopher Marlowe - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 236 pages
...jestures, digressing and, in my poor opinion, far unmeet for the matter, which I thought might seem more 10 tedious unto the wise than any way else to be regarded...some vain conceited fondlings greatly gaped at, what times they were showed upon the stage in their graced deformities. Nevertheless, now to be mixtured...
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