 | Henry Morley - 1887 - 388 páginas
...Theatre, where, he says, "we saw pdishScri1- ' Midsummer Night's Dream,' which I had never s'hlkespeare. seen before, nor shall ever again, for it is the most...insipid, ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life." In 1676, in going to Deptford by water, he read " Othello, Moor of Venice," which, he continues, "lever... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1888 - 208 páginas
...like." VPepys saw the play performed, September 29th, 1662, and thus records the fact in his Diary : " To the King's Theatre, where we saw 'Midsummer's Night's...insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life." In 1692 the play was changed into an opera under the title of The Fairy Queen, and performed in London... | |
 | Charlotte Endymion Porter - 1888 - 636 páginas
...he goes to see for the first time and is so dissatisfied with that he declares he will never see it again, ' for it is the most insipid, ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life.' But Pepys only reflected the taste, or want of taste, of his time. His brother diarist, Evelyn, remarks... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1888 - 550 páginas
...Theatre, where we saw ' Midsummer Night's Dream,' which I had never seen before, nor shall ever see again, for it is the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life" (vol. ii. p. 51). The next mention of the piece we tind is in Downes' Roscius Anglicamis, as: "The... | |
 | 1888 - 680 páginas
...he goes to see for the first time and is so dissatisfied with that he declares he will never see it again, ' for it is the most insipid, ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life.' But Pepys only reflected the taste, or want of taste, of liis time. His brother diarist, Evelyn, remarks... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1890 - 620 páginas
...Eomeo and Juliet, "a play of itself the worst that ever I heard in my life;" A Midsummer Night's Dream, "the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life;" Twelfth Night, "a silly play;" Macbeth, "a most excellent play for variety;" and to this last he returned... | |
 | Edward Walford, George Latimer Apperson - 1889 - 324 páginas
...tells us, that on September 29, 1662, "he went to the King's Theatre, where we saw Midsummer Ni^hfs Dream, which I had never seen before, nor shall ever...again, for it is the most insipid, ridiculous play that I ever saw in my life." In no part of his Diary is there any mention of Milton or his poems. Mortals... | |
 | Edward Walford, George Latimer Apperson - 1889 - 298 páginas
...September 29, 1662, "he went to the King's Theatre, where we saw Midsummer Night's {¡ream, which 1 hail never seen before, nor shall ever again, for it is the most insipid, ridiculous play that I ever saw in my life." In no part of his Diary is there any mention of Milton or his poems. Mortals... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Edwin Austin Abbey - 1889 - 234 páginas
...T1TAN1A. 338 HARPER'S NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. Mr. Pepys, as we know, thought the Midsummer -Night's Dream "the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life." Indeed, Mr. Pepys lived in another world than Shakespeare's, and perhaps the piece is too ethereal... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1890 - 144 páginas
...in his Diary, under date September 29, I662: "To the King's Theatre, where we saw Midsummer-Night's Dream, which I had never seen before, nor shall ever...insipid, ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life." Shakespeare wrote A Midsummer-Night's Dream at a time of his life when fancy was strong, and a sense... | |
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Midsummer Night's Dream, which I had never seen before, nor shall ever again, for it is the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life. 
