 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 624 pagine
...of the ancients. This comedy was written at her command, and by her direction, and she was so eager to see it acted, that she commanded it to be finished in fourteen days ; and was afterwards, as tradition tells us, very well pleased at the representation." The plain statement... | |
 | Thomas Amyot, John Payne Collier, William Durrant Cooper, Alexander Dyce, Barron Field, Thomas Wright - 1853 - 768 pagine
...of the ancients. This comedy was written at her command, and by her direction, and she was so eager to see it acted, that she commanded it to be finished in fourteen days; and was afterwards, as tradition tells us, very well pleas'd at the representation. In the second place,... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1853 - 442 pagine
...the comedy was written at the command of Queen Elizabeth, and by her direction; and she was so eager to see it acted, that she commanded it to be finished in fourteen days." i)ennis gives no authority for any part of this assertion, but beeause he knew Dryden, it is supposed... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1856 - 412 pagine
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 | George Henry Townsend - 1857 - 136 pagine
...of the ancients. This comedy was written at her command, and by her direction, and she was so eager to see it acted, that she commanded it to be finished in fourteen days, and was afterwards, as tradition tells us, very well pleased at the representation." Howe, in 1709,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1857 - 666 pagine
...was in the world This comedy was written at her command and by her direction, and she was so eager to see it acted, that she commanded it to be finished in fourteen days ; and was afterwards, as tradition tells us, very well pleased at the representation." It is supposed... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1858 - 762 pagine
...the comedy was written at the command of Queen Elizabeth, and by her direction ; and she was so eager to see it acted, that she commanded it to be finished in fourteen days." Dennis gives no authority for any part of this assertion, but because he knew Dryden, it is supposed... | |
 | Robert Richard Tighe - 1858 - 752 pagine
...has been said that this comedy was written by command of Queen Elizabeth, and that " she was so eager to see it acted that she commanded it to be finished in fourteen days ; and was afterwards, as tradition tells us, very well pleas'd at the representation." 3 Mr. Knight,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1859 - 720 pagine
...of the ancients. This comedy was written at her command, and by her direction, and she was so eager to see it acted, that she commanded it to be finished in fourteen days ; and was afterwards as tradition tells us very well pleas'd at the representation. — Einen weiteren... | |
 | Thomas Nelson Publishers - 1859 - 166 pagine
...Wives of Windsor' ) was written at Elizabeth's command, and by her direction : and she was so eager to see it acted, that she commanded it to be finished in fourteen days." But if court patronage was one of the influences which developed the genius of the great dramatist,... | |
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This comedy was written at her command, and by her direction, and she was so eager to see it acted, that she commanded it to be finished in fourteen days, and was afterwards, as tradition tells us, very well pleased at the representation. 
