...saw. His remarks, often quoted, say more about the taste of his time than the actual production: 'Then to the King's Theatre, where we saw "Midsummer Night's...again, for it is the most insipid ridiculous play that I ever saw in my life. I saw, I confess, some good dancing and some handsome women, which was all my...

...Romeo & Juliet. "A play of itself the worst ever I heard in my life." On A Midsummer Night's Dream. "The most insipid, ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life..." From the Odessa Courier — on Tolstoi's Anna Karenina. "Sentimental rubbish - show me one page that...

...Samuel Pepys often reports finding Shakespearean comedies silly, calling A Midsummer Night's Dream 'the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life', and though William Wycherley's comedy The Country Wife, with its heroine disguised as a boy and its...

...ever I heard in my life." Pepys revised his opinion when he saw A Midsummer Night's Dream, calling it "the most insipid, ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life." Good thing Pepys wasn't forced to sit through Measure for Measure , which London theater critic James...

...phenomenon. When Samuel Pepys saw the play in September, 1662, it was so cut and revised that he thought it "the most insipid, ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life." The evening was redeemed for him only "by some good dancing, and some handsome women, which was all...