I bans, to dress his characters. Fitzstephen writing in 1174, says that, " London, for its theatrical exhibitions, has religious plays, either the representations of miracles wrought by holy confessors, or the sufferings of martyrs. Medii Ævi Kalendarium: Or, Dates, Charters, and Customs of the Middle Ages - Page 281de Robert Thomas Hampson - 1841Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
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| William Shakespeare - 1813 - 564 pages
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| William Shakespeare - 1821 - 578 pages
...patron Archbishop Becket, and in the twenty-first year of the reign of King Henry the Second, mentions, that " London, for its theatrical exhibitions, has...wrought by holy confessors, or the sufferings of martyrs *" 3 Apud Dunestapliam — quendam ludum de sancta Katerina (quem Miracula vulgariter appellamus) fecit.... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1821 - 572 pages
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| William Hone - 1823 - 342 pages
...the neighbouring abbey of St. Albans, to dress Jlis characters." • Fitestephen writing in 1 174, says, that ' London, for its theatrical exhibitions,...miracles wrought by holy confessors, or the sufferings of martyrs.'.1' Besides those of Coventry, there are MSS. of the Chester Mysteries/ ascribed to Itunulph... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1823 - 526 pages
...patron Archbishop Becket, and in the twenty-first year of the reign of King Henry the Second, mentions, that " London, for its theatrical exhibitions, has...by holy confessors, or the sufferings of martyrs." Mr. Warton has remarked, that " in the time of Chaucer, Plays of Miracles appear to have been the common... | |
| James Walker - 1824 - 140 pages
...the sacrist of the neighbouring Abbey of Saint Alban's, to dress his characters. Fitz-Stephen writing in 1174, says, that ' London, for its theatrical exhibitions,...by holy confessors, or the sufferings of martyrs.' The earliest notices, however, which we meet with of the performance of mysteries by trading societies,... | |
| James Walker (of Newcastle-upon-Tyne.) - 1824 - 196 pages
...the sacrist of the neighbouring Abbey of Saint Alban's, to dress his characters. Fitz-Stephen writing in 1174, says, that ' London, for its theatrical exhibitions,...by holy confessors, or the sufferings of martyrs." The earliest notices, however, which we meet with of the performance of mysteries by trading societies,... | |
| Sholto Percy, Reuben Percy - 1824 - 392 pages
...who wrote in 1174, speaks of the mysteries as quite common in the metropolis : " London," he says, "for its theatrical exhibitions has religious plays,...by holy confessors, or the sufferings of martyrs." That the mysteries were one of the means used by the priests to sustain the Roman Catholic religion,... | |
| William Hone - 1825 - 842 pages
...from the sacrist of the neighbouring abbey of St. Albans, to dress his characters. Fitzstephen writing in 1174, says that, " London, for its theatrical exhibitions,...plays, either the representations of miracles wrought by'holy confessors, or the sufferings of martyrs." Besides those of Coventry, there are MSS. of the... | |
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