 | William Shakespeare - 1890 - 144 pages
...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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1890 - 140 pages
...in his Diary, under date September 29, 1662: "To the King's Theatre, where we saw Midsummer-Night's Dream, which I had never seen before, nor shall ever again, for it is the most insipid, ridicjlous play that ever I saw in my life." Shakespeare wrote A Midsummer-Night's Dream at a time... | |
 | Henry Morley - 1891 - 398 pages
...worst he had ever heard." Not long after he went to poiue world the King's Theatre, where, he says, " we saw ' Midsummer Night's Dream,' which I had never...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, "... | |
 | Robert William Lowe - 1891 - 212 pages
...Dream, which Pepys saw on Michaelmas Day, 1662, received very short shrift. " We saw Midsummer Nights Dream, which I had never seen before, nor shall ever...insipid, ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life." We may guess that the play was produced for the sake of the show and spectacle that could be introduced... | |
 | William Shepard Walsh - 1892 - 1114 pages
...name or day, while with " A Midsummer Night's Dream" he was so dissatisfied that he would never see it again, " for it is the most insipid, ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life." Evidently he deemed it even worse than " Romeo and Juliet." But Pepys only reflected the taste of his... | |
 | James L. Calderwood - 1971 - 206 pages
...reality. From a similar standpoint Samuel Pepys dismisses the product of Shakespeare's imagination as "the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life"; and one kind of modern critic — Pepys "translated" into the twentieth century — finds it "barely... | |
 | 1882 - 1192 pages
...first time of acting, for they were all of them out more or less. In 1662, on the 29th of September, to the King's Theatre, where we saw Midsummer Night's...insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life. In the next year, So to the Duke's House, and there saw Hamlelt done, giving us fresh reason never... | |
 | Frederick Wilkinson Kilbourne - 1910 - 200 pages
...contempt for them. Two passages' from Pepys will show this conclusively. Under the date of 1662, he says, "To the King's 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; " and again, in... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1992 - 132 pages
...Samuel Pepys saw A Midsummer Night's Dream in September 1662, he remarked that he had never seen it before — 'nor shall ever again, for it is the most...insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life'.' Pepys, however, appears to have been vastly outnumbered, for over the centuries A Midsummer Night's... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1994 - 692 pages
...When Samuel Pepys saw it in 1662 only its incidental features appealed to him. He wrote in his diary: 'We saw Midsummer Night's Dream, which I had never...insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life. I saw, I confess, some good dancing, and some handsome women, which was all my pleasure.' Thirty years... | |
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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. 
