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1825. Chiefly with reference to the Vehicle, Characters and Dresses of the Actors. Compiled in a Great Degree from sources hitherto unexplored. To which are added the Pageant of the Shearmen and Taylors' Company and other municipal entertainments of a public nature. In this volume Sharp investigates Religious Dramas or Mysteries.
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IT is remarkable that while the history of the English Stage has been investigated with a perseverance and minuteness of research, which scarcely leaves an expectation of any additional facts or illustrations remaining to be discovered; our Religious Dramas or Mysteries, the unquestionable groundwork of the Stage, have been treated in a very superficial and unsatisfactory manner. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Leet Book, Trinity Gild, Queen Elizabeth, Act of Leet, Grey Friers, Annals of the City, City Waits, Common Council, Ludus Coventrim, Midsummer Eve, Pageant House, Religious Mysteries, Captain Cox, Chester Giants, Corporis Christi, Lord Mayor, Books of Accounts, Chester Plays, Coventry Pageants, English Stage, High Priest, Illustrations of Shakspeare, Ludus Coventria, Mary Magdalene, Pageant of the Destruction of Jerusalem New!
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IT is remarkable that while the history of the English Stage has been investigated with a perseverance and minuteness of research, which scarcely leaves an expectation of any additional facts or illustrations remaining to be discovered; our Religious Dramas or Mysteries, the unquestionable groundwork of the Stage, have been treated in a very superficial and unsatisfactory manner. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
corpus xpi, marching watch, been shewn Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Leet Book, Trinity Gild, Queen Elizabeth, Act of Leet, Grey Friers, Annals of the City, City Waits, Common Council, Ludus Coventrim, Midsummer Eve, Pageant House, Religious Mysteries, Captain Cox, Chester Giants, Corporis Christi, Lord Mayor, Books of Accounts, Chester Plays, Coventry Pageants, English Stage, High Priest, Illustrations of Shakspeare, Ludus Coventria, Mary Magdalene, Pageant of the Destruction of Jerusalem New!
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- Samson Agonistes by John Milton in Back Matter
- The Museum: Behind the Scenes at the British Museum by Rupert Smith on page 210
- The Diversions of Purley (Works in the History of Language) by John Horne Tooke on page 2
- A Christmas Carol by Anna Laura Page on page 121
- The Arte of English Poesie (Kent English reprints. The Renaissance) by George Puttenham on page 203
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