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The People For Whom Shakespeare Wrote

By Charles Dudley Warner

2019-10-24 16:13:25

Brief Extract: Roscius the Comedian is recorded in History with such commendation, it may be allowed us to do the like with some of our Nation. Richard Bourbidge and Edward Allen, two such actors as no age must ever look to see the like; and to make ... Read more
Brief Extract: Roscius the Comedian is recorded in History with such commendation, it may be allowed us to do the like with some of our Nation. Richard Bourbidge and Edward Allen, two such actors as no age must ever look to see the like; and to make their Comedies compleat, Richard Tarleton, who for the Part called the Clowns Part, never had his match, never will have. For Writers of Playes, and such as have been players themselves, William Shakespeare and Benjamin Johnson have especially left their Names recommended to posterity." Less

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File size77.737 KB
Print pages218
PublisherPublic Domain Book
LanguageEnglish
ISBN978-1163332900
Charles Dudley Warner was an American essayist, novelist, and friend of Mark Twain, with whom he co-authored the novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today. Warner travelled widely, lectured frequently,...

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