 | Francis Asbury Smith - 1907 - 144 sider
...being naturally inclined to poetry and acting, came to London, I guess about eighteen (ie, in 1582), and was an actor at one of the playhouses, and did act exceeding well." " He began early to make essays at dramatic poetry, and his plays took well." The... | |
 | Sir Granville George Greenwood - 1909 - 176 sider
...say? " This William being inclined naturally to poetry and acting, came to London I guesse about 1 8, and was an actor at one of the play-houses, and did act exceedingly well." Why, Shakspere married at eighteen, had his first child born to him at nineteen, was the father of... | |
 | Stratford-upon-Avon (England). Shakespeare's Birthplace - 1910 - 160 sider
...him for a naturall witt, his acquaintance and coetanean, but dyed young. This William, being 1nclined naturally to poetry and acting, came to London, I...one of the playhouses, and did act exceedingly well. He began early to make essayes at dramatique poetry, which at that time was very lowe, and his playes... | |
 | Charles Wells Moulton - 1910 - 812 sider
...but dyed young. This William being inclined naturally to poetry and acting, came to London, Iguesse, about 18 ; and was an actor at one of the playhouses, and did act exceedingly well (now B. Johnson was never a good actor, but an excellent instructor). He began early to make essayes at dramatique... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1913 - 194 sider
...reference is found in a manuscript note appended to this statement in Aubrey,1 " This Ws, being inclined naturally to Poetry and acting, came to London, I guesse, about 18." The manuscript note, supposed to have been written by the Reverend Richard Davies between 1688 and... | |
 | Thomas Kay - 1914 - 126 sider
...biographer, Aubrey, who, in the few words he bestows upon the subject, says : " This William . . . came to London I guesse about 18; and was an actor at one of the play houses." 1 Although Aubrey uses the words " I guesse," it will be seen that his evidence is of... | |
 | Waldo Hilary Dunn - 1916 - 354 sider
...for a natural! witt, his acquaintance and coetanean, but dyed young. " This William being inclined naturally to poetry and acting, came to London, I...the playhouses, and did act exceedingly well (now B. Johnson was never a good actor, but an excellent instructor). " He began early to make essayes at dramatique... | |
 | Alexander Cargill - 1916 - 230 sider
...tone Aubrey writes of him : 4 This Wm. being inclined naturally to poetry and acting came to London, and was an actor at one of the playhouses, and did act exceedingly well. . . . He began early to make essayes at dramatique poetry, which at that time was very lowe, and his... | |
 | Walter Lowrie Hervey, Melvin Hix - 1918 - 552 sider
..., . r*f\n1r- 1 . ," T, . >.fiii . < > iv • T .«.« . ] . , » i F i >• < \ • _ eighteen — and was an actor at one of the playhouses, and did act exceedingly well." A later tradition runs, "He was obliged to leave his business and family in Warwickshire for some time,... | |
 | Jesse Franklin Bradley, Joseph Quincy Adams - 1922 - 492 sider
...his Humour. (ii, 184; cf. 192.) * * * * William Shakespear (1564-1616). • . . . This William . . . was an actor at one of the playhouses, and did act exceedingly well (now B. Johnson was never A good actor, but an excellent instructor). . . . Ben Johnson .and he did gather... | |
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This William being inclined naturally to poetry and acting, came to London, I guesse, about 18; and was an actor at one of the play-houses, and did act exceedingly well (now B. 
