 | Joseph Strutt - England - 1841 - 504 pages
...Christi day, whence it received its title. Dugdale says,1 for the performance of these plays they had theatres for the several scenes very large and high, placed upon wheels, ami drawn to all the eminent parts of the city for the better advantage of the spectators. , ' IV.—... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1843 - 566 pages
...tell him how these pageants, "acted with mighty state and reverence by the friars of this house, had theatres for the several scenes, very large and high,...eminent parts of the city for the better advantage of spectators ; and contained the story of the New Testament composed into old English rhyme, as appearcth... | |
 | George Oliver - Lincolnshire (England) - 1846 - 226 pages
...places of amusement, 31 money was acted with mighty state and reverence by the friars of this house, had theatres for the several scenes, very large and high,...eminent parts of the city, for the better advantage of spectators. (Dugdale. p. 110.) 30 Temporary scaffolds, three stories high were erected for the performers;... | |
 | John Heywood, Frederick William Fairholt - 1846 - 32 pages
...which pageants being acted with mighty state and reverence by the friers of this house, had theaters for the several scenes very large and high, placed...eminent parts of the city, for the better advantage of spectators, and contained the story of the New Testament, composed in old English rithme, as appeareth... | |
 | Percy Society - English literature - 1847 - 358 pages
...which pageants being acted with mighty state and reverence by the friers of this house, had theaters for the several scenes very large and high, placed...eminent parts of the city, for the better advantage of spectators, and contained the story of the New Testament, composed in old English rithme, as appeareth... | |
 | George Soane - Fasts and feasts - 1847 - 370 pages
...mighty state and reverence by the Friars of this house (The Gray Friars) had theaters for the severall scenes, very large and high, placed upon wheels, and...eminent parts of the city for the better advantage of spectators; and contained the story of the (Old and) New Testament, composed into English rithme, as... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1849 - 582 pages
...pageants, "acted with mighty state and reverence by the friars of this house [the Grey Friars], had theatres for the several scenes, very large and high,...eminent parts of the city for the better advantage of spectators ; and contained the story of the New Testament composed into old English rhyme, as appeareth... | |
 | William Gray Fearnside - 1851 - 418 pages
...being chosen for the composition ; and Dugdale states, " for the performance of these plays they had theatres for the several scenes very large and high,...city for the better advantage of the spectators." By availing ourselves of a convenient figure in rhetoric, which enables the logician to take" a part... | |
 | George Markham Tweddell - 1852 - 232 pages
...Webstecs . But those performed by the Grey Friars at Coventry, "with mighty state and reverence," who "had theatres for the several scenes, very large and high,...eminent parts of the city, for the better advantage of spectators," were more numerous than any other, being forty-two in number, beginning with the " Creation,"... | |
 | Thomas Amyot, John Payne Collier, William Durrant Cooper, Alexander Dyce, Barron Field, Thomas Wright - English drama - 1853 - 782 pages
...being acted with mighty state and reverence by the friers of this house, had theaters for the severall scenes, very large and high, placed upon wheels, and...eminent parts of the city, for the better advantage of spectators : and contain'd the story of the NewTestament, composed into old English Rithme, as appeareth... | |
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