Shakespeare and the Modern Stage; with Other EssaysLee, Sidney, Sir
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Shakespeare and the Modern Stage; with Other Essays
Lee, Sidney, Sir
Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616; Shakespeare, William, 1564-1616 -- Stage history
Theatres in Elizabethan London, 36;
seating arrangements, 39;
prices of admission, 39;
the scenery, 40;
the costumes, 41;
contrast between their methods of production and those of later
date, 44
Theatres, at Restoration, 86;
characteristics of, 87-90.
(See also Playhouses.)
_Theatrical Review_ of 1763, 190
Theatrical spectacle in Shakespearean drama, effect of excess, 3;
its want of logic, 4;
its costliness, 7;
at the Restoration, 89, 109;
at the present day, 110
Thomson, James, French study of, 201
Tuke, Sir Samuel, his _Adventures of Five Hours_, 98-99
Taylor, Joseph, original actor in Shakespeare's plays, 61;
coached by Shakespeare in part of Henry VIII., 63, 71, 72
Vanbrugh, Sir John, 91
Veronese, Paolo, statue of, 233
Victoria, Queen, and Stratford-on-Avon, 222;
statues of, 237
Vienna, production of _Antony and Cleopatra_ at the Burg-Theater,
17;
types of subsidised theatres at, 136, 138;
conservatoire of actors at, 139
Voltaire on Shakespeare, 205, 206
War, popular view of, 177
Ward, John, vicar of Stratford-on-Avon, 74;
his _Diary_, 74
Warner, Mrs, at Sadler's Wells, 11
Wellington, Duke of, monument to, 238
Westminster Abbey, Shakespeare's exclusion from, 50;
his cenotaph in, 215-216
Will, freedom of, 166
Women, Shakespeare's views on, 168
Wordsworth, William, French study of, 201
Wycherley, William, 91
Young, Edward, French study of, 201
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