 | John Doran - 1865 - 486 pages
...1662, of the " Midsummer's Night's Dream," which he "had never seen before, nor ever shall again," that "it is the most insipid, ridiculous play, that ever I saw in my life." Walpole thought so too ! It may be said of Davenant, that, if he was quick of fancy and careful in... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1867 - 484 pages
...staid till the Duke was ready. It being Collar-day, we had no time to talk with him about any business. To the King's Theatre, where we saw " Midsummer's...insipid, ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life. Home, where I find Mr. Deane, of "Woolwich, hath sent me the modell he 1 Should be Nicholas Hurt, the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 530 pages
...attracted by Romeo and Juliet ; and ill 1662 we have an entry in his Diary, with his famous criticism : " To the King's Theatre, where we saw Midsummer's Night's...most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my hie." Here, upon unquestionable authority, we have a fifteenth play added to the fourteen previously... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1867 - 456 pages
...had ever heard." Not long after, he went to of tne King's Theatre, where, he says, "we saw 'Midsummer Night's Dream,' which I had never seen before, nor...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, " I... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1868 - 578 pages
...attracted by 'Romeo and Juliet;' and, in 1662, we have an entry in his diary, with his famous criticism : " To the King's Theatre, where we saw ' Midsummer's...insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life." Here, upon unquestionable authority, we have a fifteenth play added to the fourteen previously cited.... | |
 | 1868 - 536 pages
...Tagebuch eintrug: „To the KirnI's Theotre, where we saw Midsummer Nighfs Dream, which I hud necer seen before, nor shall ever again, for it is the most insipid rldiculous play, that I ever saw in my life." Ueber Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre. Von N.... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1895 - 404 pages
...ENGLISH CRITICISMS SAMUEL PEPYS, 1662, September 29 : — To the King's Theatre, where we saw 1 Midsummer Night's Dream,' which I had never seen before, nor...insipid, ridiculous play, that ever I saw in my life — (Vol. ii, p. 51, ed. liright, ap. Ingleby). HAZLITT (Characters, &c., 1817, p. 128) : Puck is the... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 554 pages
...modern style. Pepys, who went to see Midsummer Night's Dream, declared that he would never go there again ; ' for it is the most insipid, ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life.' l The comedy was transformed ; the fact was, that the public was transformed. What an audience was... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 556 pages
...modern style. Pepys, who went to see Midsummer NighCs Dream, declared that he would never go there again ; ' for it is the most insipid, ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life.' 1 The comedy was transformed ; the fact was, that the public was transformed. What an audience was... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1871 - 556 pages
...modern style. Pepys, who went to see Midsummer J\'iyh(s Dream, declared that he would never go there again ; ' for it is the most insipid, ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life.'1 The comedy was transformed; the fact was, that the public was transformed. \Vhnt an audience... | |
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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. 
