| 单词 | playgoer |
| 例句 | "You're merely a playgoer, then? Tell me, how did you like the play, a country lad like yourself?" The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z The narrow, dimly lit saloon attracted actors, stagehands, and playgoers from Ford’s Theatre next door. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The sky scowled down upon us, threatening rain as we boated over to Southwark and joined the throng of bearbaiters and playgoers. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z During that event, Adams recalled, playgoers spoke of enjoying the dim-sum format, of being able to sample theater dishes as at a major international event, such as the annual Edinburgh Festival. Perspective | The world still comes to Washington’s stage 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z But at least for this stressed-out American playgoer, the greatest reassurance lay in shows that demonstrated live theater’s distinctive power to extract patterns from life’s chaos and to weave echoing dialogues from irreconcilable viewpoints. The Best Theater of 2017 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z At the Bridge, 400 or so playgoers per performance have the opportunity to follow these characters’ paths to the altar, quite literally. Review: A Mobile Audience for a Moving ‘Guys and Dolls’ 2023-03-15T04:00:00Z A few playgoers leave the theater loudly; you can do so more quietly at home. Direct from Edinburgh: Theaters Are Closed, but a ‘Zoo’ Is Open 2020-08-21T04:00:00Z The show begins backstage, a half-hour before curtain, when playgoers are invited to view the actors in a gallery of living portraits. ‘Healing Wars’ at Arena Stage depicts veterans’ struggles through dance Adventurous playgoers and/or fans of premium cable fare will likely embrace it. 'The Sexual Life of Savages' at the Beverly Hills Playhouse 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z Was Medea’s revenge on Jason so bravura that playgoers stopped to shower the actors in wild applause? Perspective | Play It Again | These songs from musicals changed my life. Now they can sustain me. 2020-05-06T04:00:00Z And, if one's honest, there are times when Mount Lear, as a critic once called it, can seem as daunting a challenge to playgoers as to performers. King Lear - review 2010-12-08T00:05:00Z “Tea for Three” is biography theater — it’s not for playgoers seeking action or a strong plot. Theater Review: ‘Tea for Three,’ With Elaine Bromka, at Urban Stages 2013-06-05T20:16:00Z A playgoer is gratified to see how far out on a limb Artistic Director Michael Kahn is willing to go. Shakespeare Theatre Company’s ‘Shrew’: An all-male muddle 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z Are playgoers these days likely to know the references in the title to the silent film director Mack Sennett and the love of his life, the doomed actress Mabel Normand? One Musical Knockout After Another 2015-07-28T04:00:00Z Clearly, the critic has to withhold a certain amount of information for the sake of potential playgoers. Michael Billington on giving away the plot 2011-04-03T21:01:01Z The company’s monument-minded ticket buyers — you always catch people around you oohing and ahing over the theater’s historic connections — may walk in with a somewhat different constellation of priorities than playgoers at other Washington institutions. A “Menagerie” of real feeling 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Nor is Ms. George letting urban playgoers off the hook by setting the story in the emerald-lawn suburbs. Review: In ‘Hurricane Diane,’ the Perfect Storm Hits Suburbia 2019-02-25T05:00:00Z Together, they’re helping Arena build a strong case for playgoers of this century looking anew at a major American playwright from the last one. Marg Helgenberger and company give Lillian Hellman her due in ‘The Little Foxes’ 2016-10-03T04:00:00Z That’s true even though the musical “Cats” has long been superseded in the zeitgeist and Sidney Poitier may not be a name that playgoers any longer immediately recognize. 2010-01-27T06:00:00Z But a third memoir, “Who Killed My Father,” implicitly asks readers, and now playgoers, to rethink who’s responsible and reassign the blame. Review: In ‘Who Killed My Father,’ an Inquest and an Indictment 2022-05-23T04:00:00Z And, as a few lingering “Yohen” playgoers catch his eye, he mentions one of his many goals. The future of Asian American theater? East West Players' new leader charts a course 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z David Lan’s sympathetic staging navigates pretty well the sometimes abrupt textual shifts of a play set in 1911 Pittsburgh that builds to a violent conclusion capable of leaving lazier playgoers scratching their heads. Review: A British and an American Revival Intoxicate, for Different Reasons 2010-06-15T14:53:00Z This time playgoers can see how well she plays with others -- her "Madwoman" script calls for two additional actors who have yet to be cast. Sandra Tsing Loh's new play is one of five premieres in SCR season 2015-05-13T04:00:00Z But, whether you're a Goldman Sachs executive engaging in conspicuous consumption or a playgoer on a budget, people are spending money on Broadway. There's no business like Broadway's: lessons in ticket pricing from New York 2011-01-17T12:02:54Z It may well disappoint a few playgoers hoping to see Em performing back in Edinburgh, where it all began for her. En Route; Fair Trade; Shakespeare: The Man from Stratford; Up 'N' Under; Odyssey; Poland 3 Iran 2; Beautiful Burnout 2010-08-07T23:05:00Z American playgoers visiting London’s theaters in search of escapism may find that there’s an awful lot on this city’s stages to remind them of political frictions they only thought they’d left at home. Far From Home, but Not Far Enough 2018-08-07T04:00:00Z Individual playgoers will have their own views on that. Harold Pinter and Tracy Letts Revivals, and ISIS on Stage in London 2016-05-06T04:00:00Z But he was intent on using sound to transport his listening playgoers. Who needs TV and movies? Audio dramas are booming when our minds need them most 2020-08-20T04:00:00Z But she was an avid playgoer, at least, and had acted a bit when she was young. In ‘Tom Stoppard,’ Hermione Lee Takes On a New Challenge: a Living Subject 2021-02-13T05:00:00Z One of Immerwahr’s tasks is wooing back some of the playgoers and donors who felt aggrieved by the Roth imbroglio; he acknowledges the company took a hit. ‘What does it mean to be a Jewish theater?’ 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z When hundreds of playgoers lined up outside Wyndham’s Theater in London this week, the mood was excited. West End Theatergoers Grumble as Prices for the Best Seats Surge 2023-10-27T04:00:00Z Does that mean Broadway would have to present twice as many performances to accommodate playgoers at a safe distance? You Live Outside New York. Are You Ready to Return to Broadway? 2020-06-07T04:00:00Z Before evening’s end, nonblack audience members were asked by the cast to leave the theater so that black playgoers could remain for a special segment. Perspective | How a new generation of black playwrights is taking on race and privilege in the age of Trump 2019-04-02T04:00:00Z Before a word has even been spoken, we see the “groundlings” — playgoers who stand in the central well throughout the show, poor weather notwithstanding — poking their heads through a spandex-like black covering. Review: Satiric Assault on the Origins of Scabrous Male Bonding in Politics 2010-05-04T12:00:00Z Rented metal bleachers fronted the stage, giving up to 180 playgoers a close view of the action — which would include some of their friends or neighbors. Cornerstone Theater Company gives local flavors to Shakespeare 2014-09-27T04:00:00Z Because of the powerful emotions playgoers harbor about these men, Biehl and Jimenez say the roles are like none they have ever undertaken. Perspective | You think your job has baggage? Try playing Donald Trump or Fidel Castro. 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z Ticket revenue was put to quick use — to buy the makings of dinner, to be served to the playgoers. Jeff Weiss, an Unconventional Theatrical Force, Dies at 82 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z He was not an experienced playgoer—actually, this was his first time—and he watched the performance with blank-eyed fascination. Theatre for Babies 2016-04-20T04:00:00Z But I’ve rarely heard an audience as attentive as the Almeida’s was when Hainsworth’s guttural sorrow gave way to a startlingly vivid suicide, from which several playgoers around me visibly recoiled. Review: In London, a ‘Romeo and Juliet’ That Feels Startlingly New 2023-06-16T04:00:00Z The Rep also aims to attract a new generation of playgoers with education programs and works by hot younger writers, and Manning is hiring more Seattle talent than ever. A look back at 50 years of Seattle Rep 2012-09-28T17:21:06Z Many playgoers thought the wound was part of the act. Irish `Hamlet' suffers abrupt end in sword mishap 2011-03-22T12:44:13Z “I did not know I had visitors,” she says, deadpan, taking in the playgoers seated on all sides. On London Stages, Finding Something Fresh in Tragedy 2023-02-22T05:00:00Z Fletcher, best known to New York playgoers as Jay Gatsby in the Elevator Repair Service production of “Gatz,” speaks beautifully and never barks. In a Double Bill, the Avant-Garde Meets a Very Good Girl 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z She believes combining “the personal and global” helps a centuries-old text resonate with playgoers. How Pasadena's A Noise Within theater troupe builds a future on the past 2017-03-09T05:00:00Z Now, happily, the revival turns up in these parts to deliver its knockout punch to Washington playgoers. Top 10 choices (possibly) in the new theater season 2016-09-09T04:00:00Z So on Saturday evening, I found myself, along with seven other playgoers, seated along the perimeter of the Denizen’s small square playing space. Review: From Neil LaBute, a Case of He Said, She Said, No One Said 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z Calling Baker’s play “exceedingly clever,” and praising the performances, that review deemed “Chains” nonetheless “something too familiar to create any great excitement with our playgoers.” ‘Chains’ Review: Drab Lives, but Dreaming of More 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z Some of the works he championed upset critics and playgoers unused to nontraditional productions, but he was unapologetic. Robert Brustein, theater critic and pioneer who founded stage programs for Yale and Harvard, dies 2023-10-29T04:00:00Z On the evening of April 14, 1865, playgoers settled into their seats at Ford’s Theater in Washington to see a production of the comedy “Our American Cousin.” Two Tickets to History Sell for Six Figures 2023-09-26T04:00:00Z Drama that tackles sensitive subjects and seeks to dissect provocative minds is on the agenda this fall in Washington theater, the result being that playgoers have their pick of challenging evenings all over town. Review | On D.C. stages, illuminating Emmett Till and Leonardo da Vinci to mixed effect 2022-10-14T04:00:00Z It’s been the mission of the Contemporary American Theater Festival since 1991: offering a multi-production fix to playgoers who crave theater served hot from the creative kitchen. Perspective | New plays about race and climate change bloom in West Virginia’s wilds 2022-07-15T04:00:00Z But the civic contribution the play makes — asking playgoers in the Calderwood/BCA complex to reflect on the legacy of that explosive era — confers on the proceedings a welcome urgency. Review | For ‘1776,’ the casting of Founding Fathers is kind of revolutionary 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z It isn’t often that a serial playgoer, worn down by other, wordier dramatists, watches the lights come up and hopes they go back down. Review | In ‘Private,’ we ponder where to draw the line on surveillance 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z As playgoers filtered into the amphitheater, the cast and crew — with a flair for the dramatic — could hardly contain their excitement. Theater returns to a town called Volcano after a siege of COVID and fire 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z Breaking habits in the theater is a tough business, and nothing perhaps vexes playgoers more than a drama that doesn’t dictate what a theatergoer is supposed to think. Coming to an L.A. stage: Proof we're in a golden age of American playwriting 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z By Act 3, Scene 2, playgoers are invested. Opinion | The context behind the fatal punchline that obscured the Lincoln assassination 2021-04-13T04:00:00Z The Globe, which opened in 1997 and draws hundreds of thousands of playgoers and tourists every year, is a commercial theater, which means it gets no grants from the British government. Inside the 'Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' reunion with Joseph Marcell: 'It felt so good to be back' 2020-09-22T04:00:00Z Nowadays the company draws around 45,000 playgoers to what typically consists of two free outdoor productions each summer. 'Two Gentlemen of Verona' rocks and rolls in Independent Shakespeare staging 2017-08-25T04:00:00Z “Think of the thrill of a first night, all those ardent playgoers willing one to succeed.” Theater returns to a town called Volcano after a siege of COVID and fire 2021-09-13T04:00:00Z That alien playgoer would leave with his thoughts about men, sure, but also with ideas about painting and assurance that Earth can produce some mighty fine theater. Review: ‘Art’ and ‘Red’ in Repertory at Westport Country Playhouse 2016-05-12T04:00:00Z These buildings were all similar in design, built to hold 2,000 or so playgoers from across the social spectrum. Shakespeare's last act: a torrent of twisted fantasies 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z Gouged-out eyeballs were not exactly an everyday occurrence, but they were an unavoidable fact of life for the playgoers who flocked across London Bridge to Southwark, then the theatrical and red-light district of the capital. Get Thee to a Museum 2012-08-06T05:00:00Z Many playgoers emerged electrified by the experience of seeing the uprising examined publicly in a work of art. Mohammad al-Attar Play Explores Syria Uprising 2012-06-16T15:30:36Z In one of the boxes was one of those hardy playgoers who attended our shows night after night. The Secrets of a Savoyard 2012-04-08T02:00:19.727Z A good many of the playgoers caught the infection at the playhouse and died; which caused the epidemic to receive the sinister nickname, "the Garrick fever." Superwomen 2012-04-03T02:00:38.047Z The cramped playing space at Blackfriars, framed by playgoers who paid for the privilege of sitting on stools on the edge of the stage, couldn’t comfortably accommodate swordfighting. Shakespeare's last act: a torrent of twisted fantasies 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z Even the Weird Sisters, the witches who prophesy Macbeth’s rise to power, would have had real resonance for the playgoers of the 1600s. Get Thee to a Museum 2012-08-06T05:00:00Z Her audience was more fastidious than the playgoers of Dresden and Warsaw. Lola Montez An Adventuress of the 'Forties 2012-01-08T03:00:19.240Z According to Mr Ross, "The Florentine Tragedy" promises to become almost as popular with German playgoers as "Salom�" is now. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z They have bored, angered, and distressed a less intelligent majority of playgoers and critics. More Portmanteau Plays 2011-11-11T03:00:27.887Z For many modern readers and playgoers, and surely for his contemporaries as well, the most distinctive feature of Shakespeare’s Jacobean plays is their often difficult and knotty verse style. Shakespeare's last act: a torrent of twisted fantasies 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z This innovation was extremely popular with the younger patrons of the Opera, but, on the other hand, alarmed the modesty of many of the more conservative playgoers. Queens of the French Stage 2011-10-06T02:00:38.820Z Regret soon ceases on finding that I am among old friends acting a story more or less familiar to every playgoer. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, September 9, 1893 2011-09-30T02:00:15.237Z There was a hidden terror in the word "War" that at first held the amazed playgoers breathless and thoughtful. The Great War in England in 1897 2011-09-20T02:00:17.083Z The awkward pause which followed was relieved by one of the playgoers who wanted to know whether it was true that to pitch a ball required more skill than to catch one. Yekl A tale of the New York ghetto 2011-07-13T02:00:17.480Z It may be coincidental, but in his Elizabethan days Shakespeare referred to playgoers as auditors, while in his Jacobean period he describes them as spectators. Shakespeare's last act: a torrent of twisted fantasies 2016-04-17T04:00:00Z In pathetic passages, we are told, she drew tears from the eyes of the most hardened playgoers. Queens of the French Stage 2011-10-06T02:00:38.820Z The barbarians had begun to arrive; it was the first wave of democracy before which the habitué, the playgoer of the old school, was forced to flee. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z Already the startled playgoers could hear in their excited imagination the clash of arms mingling with the triumphant yell of the victor, and the stifled, despairing cry of the hapless victim. The Great War in England in 1897 2011-09-20T02:00:17.083Z All have made merry over the extravagances of melodrama and "problem" plays; the vanity and the mistakes of actors, actresses and dramatists; and the blunderings of the average playgoer. Mr. Punch at the Play Humours of Music and the Drama 2011-06-29T02:00:22.990Z The story of the Red Barn is well known to provincial playgoers in the Eastern Counties, where it still sometimes figures in theatrical programmes on Saturday nights. The Pictorial Press Its Origin and Progress 2011-06-15T02:00:20.920Z Dumesnil and her school of acting and the most captious of critics were compelled to acknowledge her charm, while the ordinary playgoer was "transported with enthusiasm." Queens of the French Stage 2011-10-06T02:00:38.820Z To this day Lytton remains an idol of English playgoers and actors, a lasting proof of their inability to distinguish what is dramatic truth. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z The transition from sensational drama and broad farce to refined comedy was by no means appreciated by local playgoers, and the attendance during the week was unusually small even for Norwich. Norfolk Annals A Chronological Record of Remarkable Events in the Nineteeth Century, Vol. 2 2011-05-25T02:00:19.650Z Instead he gave them folk like Oswald, and all the Norwegian playgoers could go skipping out into the moonlight with their teeth chattering from laughter as much as from cold. Seeing Things at Night 2011-04-10T02:00:05.360Z George Bernard Shaw changed the style, and taught playgoers to refuse to accept technic as something just as good as spiritual significance. Pieces of Hate And Other Enthusiams 2011-03-28T02:00:24.120Z Occasionally, though, playgoers on one side or another are unhelpfully and perhaps unavoidably denied a full view of an actor’s face. Review: Peter Marks on Theater J?s ?The Chosen? at Arena Stage 2011-03-16T05:19:04Z Lastly, I love the theatre, and have been an enthusiastic playgoer. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z Seated by my side in the foyer, she subjected the throng of returning playgoers to a frankly humorous and malicious scrutiny. Mrs. Fitz 2011-02-14T03:00:38.317Z The one thought in which these playgoers of another day take comfort is that even if we had such drama now there would be no one who could act it. Seeing Things at Night 2011-04-10T02:00:05.360Z Every company has its leading man, leading lady, low comedians, old man and old woman, and those ordinary characters which all playgoers know by heart. The Galaxy Vol. XXIII?March, 1877.?No. 3 2011-01-31T03:00:16.193Z But the playgoers of the Restoration, and of the period that immediately succeeded it, were intolerant of all views but their own. Shakespeare in the Theatre 2011-01-30T03:00:17.973Z He knows that if he treats of unlawful love he imperils his chances and tends to drive away whole classes—one may say, the great majority of playgoers. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z The playgoer of to-day is fed on other stuff, on experiences quite unlike those his predecessors knew. London Days A Book of Reminiscences 2011-01-03T03:01:01.297Z Sernine seemed to be greatly diverted and to be watching the scene with the air of a playgoer who is thoroughly amused and very anxious to know how the piece is going to end. 813 2010-12-28T03:00:13.553Z Although some of the improvements, like roof repairs, will not be apparent to playgoers, the new heating, ventilation and air-conditioning system is sure to be noticed and welcomed by all. | Connecticut: Hartford Stage?s Theater Starts Its New Look 2010-06-12T03:05:00Z The speculator lost his money, the playgoer did not see his “star,” and the student heard no masterpieces. Shakespeare in the Theatre 2011-01-30T03:00:17.973Z But what is a mere accessory in the view of the ordinary playgoer, constitutes the essential part of the play for the critic, for the historian of the drama and of life. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z And the generation which furnishes the majority of the playgoers of to-day does not care a button. London Days A Book of Reminiscences 2011-01-03T03:01:01.297Z As a writer he had scandalised a whole generation of playgoers. A Cursory History of Swearing You were never a great playgoer, you see, and Mrs. Ricardo was anything but a great actress. Witching Hill There must be some sane playgoers who still wish to see in the playhouse Juliet smile upon Romeo, and Othello frown on Iago. Shakespeare in the Theatre 2011-01-30T03:00:17.973Z And then we escape that ultimate conversion, a lamentable concession made by Feuillet to the optimistic playgoers of the fair sex of thirty years ago. The English Stage Being an Account of the Victorian Drama 2011-07-04T02:00:21.750Z We turned to the bridge, and stood there until all the playgoers had streamed homewards, and silence and solitude reigned. Glories of Spain It is a book for all playgoers who have done their playgoing in the English theatre of the past twenty-five years. Sinister Street, vol. 1 Examinations to prepare compelled me for some time to postpone all idea of astonishing the Paris playgoers with a "new and original" drama. John Bull, Junior or French as She is Traduced To playgoers at the Globe, then, the interest in the play of “Macbeth” lay in the man’s daring attempt to defeat the supernatural. Shakespeare in the Theatre 2011-01-30T03:00:17.973Z My adversaries were driven mad by the revolt it caused among playgoers, by its parodies and hidden meanings, which the newspapers industriously explained, describing many things which I had never put there. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second The monologue is the simplest form of dramatic composition and needs but little notice, though it seems to have met with some favour from playgoers of the time. A Short History of French Literature Again, the railways which bring London productions to the country take country playgoers by the thousand to London. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" Mrs. Potts is a playgoer, and with the sensibility of her sex, would "ten to one rather see the Corsican Brothers than Hamlet." Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) It must be conceded, also, that our playgoers are rarely familiar with the text of Shakespeare’s plays, and thus increased opportunity is given to the actor to overrule the author. Shakespeare in the Theatre 2011-01-30T03:00:17.973Z It happened at this time that Sacchi had dismissed his first actress, Regina Cicucci, a very able artist, but one who had not won great fame with Venetian playgoers. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second The London playgoer may remember a piece in which the celebrated Ravel made a great sensation; it was entitled "Les Folies Dramatiques," and was founded upon the mania of the old man. An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections Though the majority of French playgoers continued to side with him, and to cling to the time-honoured theatrical beliefs, a few young men were beginning to murmur against the too elaborate mechanism and artificial logic. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" I am not much of a playgoer myself, you know. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) If a sound judgment and true taste are to prevail among playgoers, criticism should dissociate history from sentiment and discriminate between old conventions and modern innovations. Shakespeare in the Theatre 2011-01-30T03:00:17.973Z These are the things playgoers—and who is not a playgoer these days?—want to know about the players who have "arrived." The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 1 March 1906 My excuse for so doing is the extraordinary popularity of Dumas' play with all classes of playgoers. An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections In his youth he had been a playgoer, but he shortly came to the conclusion that tragedy is a stilted and bombastic art, and after a time comedy interested him no more than tragedy. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 7 "Columbus" to "Condottiere" Although these plays have but slight appeal to us as readers, they must have been highly popular among Elizabethan playgoers. An Introduction to Shakespeare Most modern playgoers are unaware of the methods of Elizabethan stage-playing, and therefore cannot condemn them as unsatisfactory. Shakespeare in the Theatre 2011-01-30T03:00:17.973Z How those lines, so simply yet so earnestly spoken, ring yet in the ears of old playgoers: "To hell with the man that strikes a woman!" The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 1 March 1906 I am not myself a playgoer, but I am informed that, in Europe at least, it is not in a state to arouse any deep interest or respect in any cultivated or virtuous person. Lectures Delivered in America in 1874 The Dowager Lady Randolph watched the young household with something of the interest with which a playgoer watches the stage. Sir Tom The piece is played with the burlesque earnestness that characterised the first performances of Engaged at the Haymarket, which piece the Scotch accent recalls to the playgoer's memory. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, May 3, 1890. Sometimes playgoers will receive an author’s brightest comedy with coldness. Shakespeare in the Theatre 2011-01-30T03:00:17.973Z Mrs. Langtry's Rosalind is charming, her scenes with Orlando being as pretty a piece of acting as any honest playgoer could wish to see. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, April 5, 1890 She loved her London, its throbbing streets, its life and movement, its concerts, its bright restaurants, and, most of all, its theatres—for she was an ardent playgoer. The Sign of Silence The mere fact that they were for the most part new versions of works that were then quite familiar to playgoers would have told against them. William Shakespeare His Homes and Haunts The fact of the matter is, as a playgoer, the Father of our Country figured quite as constantly as the Father of our Theatre. André The Elizabethan playgoer had no desire to bias the judgment of the dramatist. Shakespeare in the Theatre 2011-01-30T03:00:17.973Z He cancelled "Harry Lorrequer," put him back in the bookcase to make an incident, then began actively waiting for the return of the playgoers. Somehow Good Mankind may be divided into playgoers and not playgoers; and the first are far more numerous, and also far more illustrious. Hortus Vitae Essays on the Gardening of Life The vast range of his writings enabled him to bring his bold questionings to the attention of all sorts and conditions of men,—not only to the general reader, but even to the careless playgoer. An Introduction to the History of Western Europe In the interests of playwriters and play-actors, I wish to see the playgoer—our dramatic lawgiver—be educated; and I think this might be done by means of a “Royal Dramatic Academy.” The Idler Magazine, Volume III, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Euripides was none the less famous, as a dramatist, because the Athenian playgoers disliked his opinions and banished him from their midst. Shakespeare in the Theatre 2011-01-30T03:00:17.973Z But playgoers had but to be shown something better than that they had, to discover that the convention of the Restoration needed new blood. The Comedies of William Congreve Volume 1 [of 2] For several years his genius as dramatist and poet had been acknowledged by critics and playgoers alike, and his social and professional position had become considerable. A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles The real playgoers know that this is atmosphere. Behind the Beyond and Other Contributions to Human Knowledge As a result, it quickly attained popularity with London playgoers, and before the end of the century had caused the centre of dramatic activity to be shifted from Finsbury Field to the Bank. Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration His criticisms are those of a playgoer writing of plays, as if he had seen them acted at the theatre. Shakespeare in the Theatre 2011-01-30T03:00:17.973Z It is a book for all playgoers who have done their playgoing in the English theatre of the last twenty-five years. Personality in Literature But Bensley’s powers were rated more moderately by more experienced playgoers. A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles But to the critical playgoer of 1590 few plays would have seemed either 'right comedies' or 'right tragedies.' The Facts About Shakespeare To reach the hall, playgoers had to come first into Water Lane, thence through "a way leading from the said way called Water Lane" to "a certain void ground" before the building. Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration For thirty years I have been a constant playgoer, and seen the best art this country can produce, but never can I say that I have seen English tragedy on the English stage. Shakespeare in the Theatre 2011-01-30T03:00:17.973Z Junius Brutus Booth was the delight of the Washington playgoers in the Jackson Administration. Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis In Hungary, Shakespeare’s greatest works have since the beginning of the century been highly appreciated by students and by playgoers. A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Mr. Pepys—most devoted of playgoers—notes occasionally of particular plays, that 'the machines are fine and the paintings very pretty.' Art in England Notes and Studies Against plays, players, and playgoers they waged in pulpit and pamphlet a warfare characterized by the most intense fanaticism. Shakespearean Playhouses A History of English Theatres from the Beginnings to the Restoration It even encouraged him to be studious of the playgoer’s profit as well as of his pleasure. Shakespeare in the Theatre 2011-01-30T03:00:17.973Z What playgoer will give a valid analysis of King Lear? A Hero and Some Other Folks It has since attracted more attention from actors, playgoers, and readers of all capacities than any other of Shakespeare’s plays. A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles The scenes themselves are the work of gifted and highly educated artists, and never degenerate into the rough daubs with which most playgoers are familiar. Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City The pleasures of vice were already flaunted before the playgoers. George Bernard Shaw Only so much is given here as may interest the reader, who is a playgoer first of all, and asks for entertainment and a light in these darker passages of the old British drama. "Everyman," with other interludes, including eight miracle plays There are music-lovers and serious playgoers in America; but for the most part our theatres cater to, and are filled by, a public seeking a soothing and condimented mental atmosphere, in which to finish digestion. Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View Mr. Yeats is again the authority: "The London playgoers ... sympathized with the doctors, and held the divine vision a dream." Irish Plays and Playwrights Helen said that she would be delighted, and Miss Grizel avowed herself a devoted playgoer, and Franklin, taking out his notebook, inscribed their willingness to do a play on Wednesday night. Franklin Kane The triumphs won in it by Edwin Booth are within the remembrance of many playgoers of this generation. Shadows of the Stage They are much frequented by business men for luncheon, and by playgoers for supper after the theatre. The Gourmet's Guide to Europe The playgoer does not always agree with the player, still less with that unfortunate object, the poor actor-manager. Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O Very striking is the contrast offered by the methods of representation accepted with enthusiasm by the Elizabethan playgoer and those deemed essential by the fashionable modern manager. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays Dozens of regular playgoers knew the traditions of the theatre better than many actors and actresses. Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera' The playgoer who never saw Charles Fisher as Triplet can scarcely claim that he ever saw the part at all. Shadows of the Stage Nanteuil had a great success which was marked less by vociferous calls before the curtain than by the deeper and more discreet approval of discriminating playgoers. A Mummer's Tale But you cannot argue with the playgoer who stays away. Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O The imaginative faculty was far from universal among the Elizabethan playgoers. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays Long habit and familiarity with good models have made the lower class of playgoers critical; their judgment of a piece, or of an actor, is always good and worth having. Spanish Life in Town and Country The old Park, for example, was called simply The Theatre, and when the New York playgoer spoke of going to the play he meant that he was going there. Shadows of the Stage The conventional "happy ending" demanded by sentimental critics to suit the taste of sentimental playgoers, the divided parents left weeping in each other's arms over the recovered child, would also be quite possible. The Black Cat A Play in Three Acts While in Paris Smith was a very steady playgoer. Life of Adam Smith But the reception accorded to Shakespeare's plays in the theatre of his day, in contemporary theatrical conditions, is proof-positive of a signal imaginative faculty in an exceptionally large proportion of the playgoers. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays Mr. Jones has more than once succeeded in pleasing the playgoers of his own time, and Tennyson failed to achieve the particular kind of success he was aiming at. Inquiries and Opinions It takes the playgoer a long way back, to be thinking about this old piece and the casts that it has had upon the American stage. Shadows of the Stage The "well-made play" of the day before yesterday is not a canon for all time, even for the most conservative playgoer. The Black Cat A Play in Three Acts The playgoer no longer demands whatever of primal passion is presented to him to be dressed in doublet and hose. The Onlooker, Volume 1, Part 2 At first sight it would seem that the Elizabethan playgoer's lot was anything but happy. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays Then he turned his back on antiquity and faced the present in the series of prose-plays by which he is most widely known to actual playgoers. Inquiries and Opinions I am not much of a playgoer, but in Dublin we always went to the theatre on the chance of hearing some of the proverbial wit of its gallery. The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent Bj�rnson closes this general discussion of scenery and properties with a word about the supreme importance of imagination to the playgoer. An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway She dwelt at picturesque length upon her shining place upon the Viennese stage; she recounted her triumphs, she prophesied the joy of the playgoers at her return to them. The Palace of Darkened Windows Within recent memory the English playgoer viewed with impatience any theatrical programme which lacked a Parisian flavour. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays In the most of his social dramas Ibsen makes his meaning transparently clear; and there is never any undue strain on the attention of the average playgoer. Inquiries and Opinions The playwright gave the playgoers the happy ending for which the world craves and sent them home relieved. Married Life The True Romance In the summer of 1861, he visited England, and played an engagement at the Haymarket Theater in London, where he was favorably received by the British playgoers. Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made He still clung to the notion that he was a far better judge of the requirements and desires of playgoers than they could possibly be themselves. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character In that year the tragedy of the French Revolution—a tragedy of real life, grimmer than any that Shakespeare imagined—was being enacted in literal truth by the Parisian playgoers themselves. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays As a constant playgoer, he knew the words of the plays by heart, and what he sought was to isolate the gesture of the performers, and to enjoy and criticise that by itself. Diderot and the Encyclopædists (Vol 1 of 2) You might think of this next time you drop across the old playgoer. Prose Fancies The scenes themselves are the works of highly educated artists, and never degenerate into the rough daubs with which most playgoers are familiar. Great Fortunes, and How They Were Made Assuredly these were very hard times for players, playhouses, and playgoers. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character Both actor and playgoer suffer signal injury from its effects. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays English playgoers recognize but vaguely the distinguishing characteristics of actors and actresses, whose fame has been won wholly by their performances on the other side of the Atlantic. Mary Anderson With Mr. TREE's impersonation of Hamlet most London playgoers are by this time acquainted, though not yet familiar. Punch, Or the London Charivari, Volume 102, April 16, 1892 The opposition is the firm and narrow mind of the British playgoer. Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory He is merely a young playgoer who has grown old. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character There is no doubt at all that Shakespeare conspicuously caught the ear of the Elizabethan playgoer at a very early date in his career, and that he held it firmly for life. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays Of course, the influence of the Press upon the stage is very powerful, but it will cease to be so if playgoers find that their mentors, the critics, are not trustworthy guides. Mary Anderson Perhaps when playgoers have progressed for another century or two, they may discard some of the trappings and the suits of our present drama, and become again like little children. The Theory of the Theatre There have been pieces and performances concerning which the praise of the critics, or some of them, has seemed mere raving to the ordinary playgoer. Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" Presently, however, Lamb recovered tone, so to speak, as a playgoer. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character Fashionable playgoers of the male sex might, if they opened their purses wide enough, occupy stools on the wide platform-stage. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays Between herself and that great artist, middle-aged play-goers seem to find a certain resemblance; but to the present generation of playgoers Mary Anderson is an absolutely new revelation on the London boards. Mary Anderson American playgoers will remember the disguise of Sherlock Holmes in the last act of Mr. Gillette's admirable melodrama. The Theory of the Theatre The average playgoer has no idea of the skill involved in writing the ordinary successful comedy of the present time. Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" And usually, we may note, the playgoer is youthful. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character The Elizabethan's hard fate strangely contrasts with the situation of the playgoer of the nineteenth or twentieth century. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays As soon as the sun begins to rise in the heaven, sign-boards all glistening with paintings and gold are displayed, and the playgoers flock in crowds to the theatre. Tales of Old Japan He discovered that he had quite a number of startling ideas about theatre-construction, based on his own experience as a playgoer. The Regent Consequently, the French dramatist has not only more freedom in subject and treatment than the English, but in addition a greater public of playgoers who bring their intellect into the auditorium. Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" An old playgoer is almost a contradiction in terms. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character The needful dramatic illusion was obviously evoked in the playgoer of the past with an ease that is unknown to the present patrons of the stage. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays Here is another instance of English taking over a French word and giving it a meaning not acceptable in Paris, where the playgoers do not encore, they bis. Society for Pure English, Tract 05 The Englishing of French Words; the Dialectal Words in Blunden's Poems The crowded houses at "Faust" were largely composed of "repeaters," as Americans call those charming playgoers who come to see a play again and again. The Story of My Life Recollections and Reflections Perhaps because such playgoers as will accept the more or less material ghost are even more sceptical than the scientific as to the objective phenomena of the spiritualist. Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" It is clear that playgoers of the Shakespearean period dearly loved to see a battle represented upon the stage. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character What is the moral to be deduced from any examination of the Elizabethan playgoer's attitude to Shakespeare's plays? Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays Their leave-taking of the public, their "retirement," as biographers call it, is one death; since a playgoer then considers an actor dead "to all intents and purposes"—a very non est. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 534, February 18, 1832 Coghlan's clothes were not more perfect than his manner, but both were a little in advance of the appreciation of Bristol playgoers in the 'sixties. The Story of My Life Recollections and Reflections To a great extent Duse fascinates most playgoers by her plastic art, since they do not understand her speech. Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" But spectacles—to which the "super" has always been indispensable—had already won the favour of playgoers. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character In his capacity of playgoer, as indeed in almost every other capacity, Pepys presents himself to readers of his naïve diary as the incarnation, or the microcosm, of the average man. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays The eyes whose kindly light had illumined the dull soul of many a playgoer, closed for ever on the 23rd of October, 1730, and the incomparable Oldfield was no more. The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield One old playgoer wrote to tell me that he liked me better than my former instructress, Mrs. Charles Kean. The Story of My Life Recollections and Reflections It would be idle to pretend that there are very many playgoers who possess fine taste, consequently the money must be lavished in order to delight people with a more or less uncultivated taste. Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" Certain playgoers, indeed, appear to applaud no matter what, simply for the sake of applauding. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character No other writer has pictured with the same lifelike precision and simplicity the average playgoer's sensations of pleasure or pain. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays It is more to the purpose to speak of the two theatres which claimed the attention of London playgoers in the year 1703—the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, and the house in Lincoln's Inn Fields. The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield She, who had made one of her early successes as the spirit of Astarte in "Manfred," was known to a later generation of playgoers as the aristocratic dowager of stately presence and incisive repartee. The Story of My Life Recollections and Reflections No doubt a great deal of money may be spent on quiet details, and sometimes is, without the attention of the ordinary playgoer being drawn to the expenditure, but the case is exceptional. Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" And it would seem that he afterwards justified his pretensions, especially in the eyes of the playgoers prizing imitative skill above mere reality. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character Had Pepys gone at regular intervals, when the theatres were open, he would have been a playgoer at least once a week. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays It is not my province to write here of Forbes-Robertson from the point of view of the reminiscent playgoer or of the technical critic of acting. Vanishing Roads and Other Essays The Elizabethan playgoer delighted in virtuosity; in exhibitions of strength or skill from his actors; the broad sword combat in Macbeth, and the wrestling in As You Like It, were real trials of skill. English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge Art would be better served by the old-fashioned method, for the playgoer is more willing to concede a whole than a half "make-belief." Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" Yet they were assuredly spoken, and often by women, apparently to the complete satisfaction of the playgoers of the time. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character It might be profitable to compare Pepys's experiences as a spectator of Shakespeare's plays on the stage with the opportunities open to playgoers at the present moment. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays Although playgoers and plays have prodigiously increased in the United States in the last forty years, the population indulges in this kind of amusement with the greatest reserve. Democracy in America — Volume 2 Possibly his early failure on the stage—mainly due to the obstinacy of playgoers immersed in a stock tradition—was partly due also to his failure in constructive power. English Literature: Modern Home University Library of Modern Knowledge Nevertheless there are so many pieces still produced which in one way or another are injurious to playgoers as to render it fairly arguable that the effect of the stage as a whole is bad. Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" These are now, of course, but commonplace contrivances; they were, however, distinctly the inventions of De Loutherbourg, and were calculated to impress the playgoers of his time very signally. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character However seductive may be the musico-scenic ornamentation, Shakespeare will never justly affect the mind of the average playgoer unless great or inspired actors are at hand to interpret him. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays It is singularly well conducted by Mr. Mitchell, a comic actor of great quiet humour and originality, who is well remembered and esteemed by London playgoers. American Notes The playgoers seemed to grow more united as the managers grew more obstinate. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1 Most of their repertoire consisted of works unknown to London playgoers. Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" It must be remembered that the playgoers of a century ago were rather a family than a people. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character Upon that site private enterprise is invited to erect a theatre under adequate guarantee that it shall exclusively respect the purposes of art, and spare to the utmost the pockets of the playgoer. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays We next have word of her imitating Nell Gwynn, both in selling oranges to playgoers and in becoming an actress—not, however, at Old Drury, but at the other patent theatre, Covent Garden. She Stands Accused Continual scuffles ensued: but the invincible resolution of the playgoers would not allow them to quail; it rather aroused them to renewed opposition, and a determination never to submit or yield. Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Volume 1 Some of the pleasantest memories of the playgoer concern superb performances by Miss Elizabeth Robins, and yet they can recollect two or three appearances in commonplace dramas that were flat failures. Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" Puritanism was too strong for opposition; and besides, the playgoer, by the nature of his favourite pursuit, almost avows himself a man of peace and obedient to the law. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character The musico-scenic method of producing Shakespeare can always count on the applause of the average multitude of playgoers, of which Pepys is the ever-living spokesman. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays From the average commercial manager's point of view there is a question about that seamy kind of thing getting over with the playgoer. Star-Dust It had been a music-hall of a low class until the earnest playgoers of Cottenham, extremely anxious about the condition of the drama, formed themselves into a society to improve the theatre. The Foolish Lovers So questions were put to an ardent playgoer, who spends appalling sums of money on her dress, as to why she makes a fuss about taking off her hat in the theatre. Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" Half-price was an institution of old date, however, and by no means without advantage to the playgoer. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character What better title could be offered to the support and encouragement of the intelligent playgoer? Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays But a literal version is rarely attempted; for the original incidents, thoughts, and emotions would be unintelligible to the average reader or playgoer. Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints I used to go about, like many another delighted playgoer, I expect, quoting the better bits in it, and they are many, and often laughing to himself at its admirable caricature. Crowded Out! and Other Sketches It is said that these playgoers are peculiarly severe in their judgments and remarkably apathetic! Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" To his pamphlet we are indebted for certain interesting details in regard to the manners and customs of the Elizabethan playgoers. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character At any rate, judgment should be held in suspense until the British playgoers' mettle has been more thoroughly tested than hitherto. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays I am not a very ardent playgoer, I am afraid. The Far Horizon Think of all the simple playgoers, the young people, the old honest souls, who are lifted out of their tedious everyday life by your appearance, your voice, your revelation of tragic beauty. Jean-Christophe Journey's End No doubt this gives some uncharitable amusement to people who overhear the conversation of ignorant playgoers misled by the programme. Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" Of course he had to yield at last, as managers must when playgoers are resolute; he had to live by pleasing, not displeasing. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character The impressions he finally formed of Othello and Hamlet are not consistent one with the other, but are eminently characteristic of the variable moods of the average playgoer. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays But as I was going to say, though I am not much of a playgoer, I was very pleased to have Mr. Iglesias invite me. The Far Horizon "My memory as a playgoer doesn't extend over many years," he began; "but I can appreciate the historical interest of your beautiful prints." Blind Love Of the many incomprehensible things connected with the theatre one of the most puzzling is the fact that quite conscientious playgoers get caught outside the auditorium after the curtain is up. Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" But attempts to be accurate in this way were only of an intermittent kind; any enduring amendment can hardly be found until we approach a period that is within the recollection of living playgoers. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character A working dramatist by the circumstance of his calling appeals as soon as the play is written to the playgoer for a sympathetic appreciation. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays It's many years since I've been much of a playgoer," she continued, "and people tell me it's all a good deal changed, and not for the better. The Far Horizon The most unsophisticated playgoer feels the effect of neat workmanship, though he may not be able to put his satisfaction into words. Play-Making A Manual of Craftsmanship Incidentally, it may be asked whether the ordinary playgoer exactly appreciates the position of the last rows of the stalls. Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" Some degree of accuracy our modern playgoers would demand, if they disdained or disregarded minute correctness. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character This play of Hamlet, this play of his "which most kindled English hearts," received a specially enthusiastic welcome from Elizabethan playgoers. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays So much in earnest was Macklin that he accepted a farewell benefit at Drury Lane theatre, at which he recited a good-bye prologue commending his daughter to the favour of playgoers. Inns and Taverns of Old London There is absolutely no question which Professor Matthews, or any playgoer who shares his point of view, is "eager to have answered." Play-Making A Manual of Craftsmanship The enjoyment of these expert or semi-expert playgoers of a performance of a Shakespeare play, when compared with their pleasure in reading it, is probably much higher than Lamb imagined. Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" Shakespeare makes no mention of goose in this sense, but he refers now and then to hissing as the playgoers' method of indicating disapproval. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character Thus the charge sometimes brought against the Elizabethan playgoer of failing to recognise Shakespeare's sovereign genius should be reckoned among popular errors. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays And indeed, for every play which the Lord Chamberlain has suppressed, the old playgoer of London could point to five which, had he been more intelligent, he might more reasonably have suppressed in its place. Nonsenseorship The playgoer's interest is really not so much as to what is to happen as the way in which this event is going to affect the characters involved. Play-Making A Manual of Craftsmanship However, it is hardly worth the while of the casual playgoer to study the structure of dramas sufficiently to appreciate fully such marvels of technique—the marvels are very rare. Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" The playgoers of Garrick's time, and long afterwards, were habituated to the defective system of theatrical costume—had grown up with it. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character And then, as now, the playgoer's appreciation was quickened by his knowledge that the play they were witnessing had been produced before the Court at Whitehall a few days earlier. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays The critic is not only more cultured than the average playgoer, he is more blasé. Without Prejudice This has often been done upon deliberate theory, in the belief that no play can exist, or can attract playgoers, without a definite and more or less exciting plot. Play-Making A Manual of Craftsmanship This, of course, is very often the case; probably to the simple-minded playgoer when it happens there seems to be evidence that the dialogue is true. Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" Certainly he was; but then custom had sanctioned it, and playgoers were not prepared for any meddling with the text of Shakespeare. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character Boys or men of all shapes and sizes squeaking or bawling out the tender and pathetic lines of Shakespeare's heroines, and no joys of scenery to distract the playgoer from the uncouth inconsistency! Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays How absurd, then, for the average critic to be play-taster to the occasional playgoer! Without Prejudice There is a large class of playgoers, both in England and America, which is capable of appreciating work of a high intellectual order, if only it does not ignore the fundamental conditions of theatrical presentation. Play-Making A Manual of Craftsmanship Perhaps the judgment of the simple-minded playgoer is sounder on this point than that of the critic, who is hoping that the characters will utter something that he does not expect them to say. Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" Gradually it boasted a strong critical leaven; it became the recognised resort of the more enlightened playgoers. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character As a regular playgoer at a time when the stage mainly depended on the drama of Elizabethan days, Pepys was bound to witness numerous performances of Shakespeare's plays. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays How different the attitude of the occasional playgoer! Without Prejudice The route to Innesmore Mansions traversed some of London's main arteries, but, despite the rush of traffic due to the first flight of homewardbound playgoers, the gray car kept steadily on his track. Number Seventeen Duncan, through all his anger and apprehension, felt a little thrill of superiority over these departing playgoers as he and his stepmother were admitted behind the scenes. Poor, Dear Margaret Kirby Country managers would seen to have ruled their scale of charges in strict accordance with the means of their patrons; to have been content, indeed, with anything they could get from the provincial playgoers. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character It was in "the old plays" that he and all average playgoers mainly delighted. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays As the English playgoer does not ask for intelligible situations, he is satisfied with the residuum. Without Prejudice All those marvellous and complicated effects, which old playgoers must well recollect in Irving's Lyceum productions, were obtained with gas. The Days Before Yesterday On the one hand was the playgoer, always seeking pleasure, paying exorbitantly for it, suffering unbearable discomforts for it, and hardly ever getting it. Bernard Shaw's Preface to Major Barbara The Leamington audience were provided with music at the commencement of the evening only; the Warwick playgoers dispensed with orchestral accompaniments until a later period in the performances. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character But Shakespeare was the sun in the firmament: when his light shone, the fires of all contemporaries paled in the contemporary playgoer's eye. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays I so frighted players and playgoers that they swore it was witchcraft, and Burbage's knees did knock together in dead earnest. To Have and to Hold You must remember," I continued, "that I am an old playgoer. They and I Fortunately, the Salvationists are more accessible to the religious character of the drama than the playgoers to the gay energy and artistic fertility of religion. Bernard Shaw's Preface to Major Barbara Altogether, it may perhaps be held that in Western London, although theatrical entertainments have been considerably cheapened, they still tax the pockets of playgoers more severely than need be. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character But Shakespeare's universality of appeal was such as to include among his worshippers from the first the trained and the untrained playgoer of his time. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays The hollow rang to the exultation of the playgoers. To Have and to Hold They involved an unction and over-emphasis of the club-man: then I suddenly remembered feeling the same thing in some old actors or old playgoers who had modelled themselves on actors. A Miscellany of Men But in our professional playgoers this indispensable preliminary conception of sanctity seems wanting. Bernard Shaw's Preface to Major Barbara There had been a decline in the public spirit of playgoers. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character The average Elizabethan repudiated the jeremiads of the ultra-pious, and instantaneously became an enthusiastic playgoer. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays Let those of them who have been playgoers cast their minds back to their experience of theatres. And Even Now It is an age of mutual improvement societies—a delightful idea, everybody's business being to improve everybody else; of amateur parliaments, of literary councils, of playgoers' clubs. Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow In him you have a successor to your Mascarille so perfect, that the ghosts of playgoers of your date might cry, could they see him, that Moliere had come again. Letters to Dead Authors It would seem that the exhibition concluded at nine o'clock in the morning, so that the playgoers of the period must probably have assembled so early as six. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character Never was there a more indefatigable playgoer than Pepys. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays The playgoers heard the bell ring, and left the greenroom to take their places again. The Magic Skin Rather do they protest, not altogether unjustly, against a few relapses into staginess and caricature which betray the young playwright and the old playgoer in this early work of mine. Mrs. Warren's Profession Garrick's opinion of those playgoers of his time, whom he at last banished from his stage, may be gathered from the dialogue between Æsop and the Fine Gentleman, in his farce of "Lethe." A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character In our early theatres, the arrangements for receiving the money of the playgoers were rather of a confused kind. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character A constant change of programme, such as the old methods of the stage require, causes the present generation of London playgoers, to whom it is unfamiliar, a good deal of perplexity. Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays From that date the playgoers of the past grew more and more like the playgoers of the present, until the flight of time rendered distinction between them no longer possible, and merged yesterday in to-day. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character The voluptuous sentimentality of Gounod's Faust and Bizet's Carmen has captured the common playgoer; and there is, flatly, no future now for any drama without music except the drama of thought. Mrs. Warren's Profession Even nowadays, middle-aged playgoers, old enough to remember the late Mr. Macready, are trumped, as it were, by older playgoers, boastful of their memories of Kemble and the elder Kean. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character Apparently the royal decree was not very implicitly obeyed by the playgoers. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character As to the playgoers of the Restoration we have abundant information from the poet Dryden, and the diarist Pepys. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character It is the youthful playgoers who are ever the best friends of the players. A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character |
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