 | Evan Thomas Davies - 1876 - 232 pages
...more to see the first time of acting, for they were all of them out more or less." September 29t}). " To the King's Theatre, where we saw ' Midsummer's...insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life." 1663. May 28th. " By water to the Royall Theatre ; but that was so full they told us we could have... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1877 - 202 pages
...like." Pepys saw the play performed, September agth, 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1877 - 216 pages
...like." Pepys saw the play performed, September 2gth, 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1877 - 184 pages
...came to an end on that day, rewarded his constancy by going to the King's Theatre, where, he says, ' we saw " Midsummer's Night's Dream," which I had never...insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life.' Mr. Pepys was perhaps a little difficult to please, and his critical judgement was not final. The Tempest... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1877 - 472 pages
...modern style. Pepys, who went to see Midsummer Nights 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 Comedy was transformed ; the fact was, that the public was transformed. What an audience was... | |
 | Karl Elze - 1877 - 442 pages
...Tagebuch eintrug : ' To t he King' s Theatre , where we saw Midsummer Night's Dream, which I had neiter seen before, nor shall ever again, for it is the most insipid ridieulous play , that I ever saw in my life. ' Wie nicht anders zu erwarten stand, ist die Zurückdatirung... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1878 - 824 pages
...extinguish a Shakspere ; as thus: ' September 29, 1662. To the King's Theatre, where we saw Midsummer Night's Dream, which I had never seen before, nor...insipid, ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life/ Heaven preserve me from the tender mercies of a diarist in search of scalps to hang at his girdle!... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1879 - 190 pages
...came to an end on that day, rewarded his constancy by going to the King's Theatre, where, he says, ' we saw " Midsummer's Night's Dream," which I had never...insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life.' Mr. Pepys was perhaps a little difficult to please, and his critical judgement was not final. The Tempest... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1879 - 60 pages
...1662, does not scruple to condemn its insipidity,—" To the King's Theatre, where we saw Midsummer Night's Dream, which I had never seen before, nor...insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life." Yet this condemnatory criticism was equalled, if not excelled, by Lord Orford in the following century,... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1879 - 368 pages
...1662, does not scruple to condemn its insipidity, — "To the King's Theatre, where we saw Midsummer Night's Dream, which I had never seen before, nor...is the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw 38 in my life." Yet this condemnatory criticism was equalled, if not excelled, by Lord Orford in the... | |
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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. 
