Plays Players And Playhouses At Home And Abroad With Anecdotes Of The Drama And The Stage Vol 1 Of 2 Classic Reprint PDF Download

Excerpt from The Lives of the Players, Vol. 1 of 2 Pay of some Of the nobility, * and it is not probable that the patron of the player withheld his munificence from the decorations of the theatre. The reverse should be inferred; besides, in all probability, the ornaments Of the courtly masques and pageants were disposed of to the theatres in the same manner as the wardrobes of the London houses, in our own time, are sometimes recruited from cast-off court-dresses. If I am correct in this con jecture, we may form some idea of the style of the scenery with which the plays of Shakspeare were performed by looking at Ben Jonson's Hymenwal Masque indeed the note is too curious and too apposite to be omitted. 'here the upper part of the scene, which was all of clouds, and artificially to swell and ride like the rack, began to Open, and the air clearing, in the top thereof was discovered Juno Sitting on a throne, supported by two beautiful peacocks; her attire rich, and like a queen; a white diadem on her head, from whence descended a veil, and that bound by a fascia of several coloured silks, set with all sorts Of jewels, and raised on the top with lilies and roses; in her right hand she held a Sceptre, in the other a timbrel; at her golden feet the hide Of a lion was placed; round about her the Spirits of the air in several colours making music; above her the region of. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.