 | Jonathan Keates - 1996 - 332 pages
...Restoration audiences, and only one production is recorded, in 1662 when Samuel Pepys thought the work 'the most insipid, ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life.' The fact is, nevertheless, that much of the enchantment (an entirely appropriate word in this case)... | |
 | Helen Bevington - 1996 - 238 pages
...Dream, appropriate for a midsummer's parting. How could a man as stagestruck as Pepys have called it "the most insipid, ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life"? — a play so well dreamed that it ended, for lunatic, lover, and poet, with all human problems solved... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 1997 - 820 pages
...suppose in further conformity with our Church. business. To the King's Theatre, where we saw Midsummer's Night's dream, which I had never seen before, nor...insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life. 30th. My condition at present is this; — I have long been building, and my house to my great content... | |
 | Dorothea Kehler - 1998 - 520 pages
...Pepys (l662), who in confiding to his diary gave posterity the first written judgment of Dream, it was "the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life." Luckily, it was not without redeeming qualities: "I saw, I confess, some good dancing and some handsome... | |
 | Samuel Pepys - 2000 - 352 pages
...this afternoon) and then to the King's Theatre, where we saw Midsummers nights dreame, 1 which I have never seen before, nor shall ever again, for it is...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. So to my off1ce... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2000 - 148 pages
...but unproved. The indefatigable London diarist Samuel Pepys saw the play in the 1660s and declared it "the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life," but his condescension must have been an atypical response, for the comedy continued to hold the stage... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 394 pages
...rejoice in the annihilation of a mortal's day. ENGLISH CRITICISMS SAMUEL PEPYS, 1662, September 29 : — To the King's Theatre, where we saw ' Midsummer Night's...insipid, ridiculous play, that ever I saw in my life — (Vol. ii, p. 51, ed. Bright, ap. Ingleby). HAZLITT (Characters, &c., 1817, p. 128) : Puck is the... | |
 | Barbara A. Murray - 2001 - 316 pages
...Shakespeare, the cast kept forgetting their lines). In September 1662 he saw the King's Company in A Midsummer Night's Dream: "which I had never seen before,...insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life." Pepys was also at Twelfth Night on 6 January 1663: it was "acted well, though it be but a silly play... | |
 | Peter Quennell, Hamish Johnson - 2002 - 246 pages
...and, in September 166z, Samuel Pepys attended a performance by the King's company, and dismissed it as 'the most insipid, ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life'. Octavia (Ant.) The sister of Octavius Caesar. The 'patient Octavia' is married to Antony as part of... | |
 | Stanley Wells - 2003 - 494 pages
...worst that ever I heard in my life'; later that year he went to A Midsummer Night's Dream 'which I have never seen before, nor shall ever again, for it is...insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life'. But the occasion was at least partially redeemed by 'some good dancing and some handsome women, which... | |
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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. 
