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  • :Under the heading, "Jn the name of god amen begininge the 25 of novembʒ 1596 as foloweth the lord admerall ...ther avian riddle (of three ravens), and this time the boy—who reveals his name to be "Alexander"—pleases with his answer and is rewarded by being made t
    22 KB (3,083 words) - 11:48, 19 May 2023
  • ...o different dramatic texts with the same title, and b) they don't know the name of the 1602/1633 translator. Given this, the other ''Pastor Fido'' one wou ...English name, ''The Faithful Shepherd'' (and without giving a translator's name). But another comparable contemporary list of plays in print - [[Archer%27
    8 KB (1,217 words) - 09:54, 23 March 2017
  • ...are right'', bearing it without shew of impatience. In his time began the name of ''Turkes'', to bee first heard of in Asia, and the ''Gothes'' and ''Angl ...sisting onely in a bare title, and it was brought to passe that either the name of an Empire must be laid aside, or else ''Phocas'' must die. There was one
    17 KB (2,706 words) - 15:51, 15 August 2022
  • ...lude deleting "tragedy," inserting "playe" and providing some form of the name, Robin Goodfellow.
    6 KB (946 words) - 20:48, 5 September 2016
  • The association of boldness with the name Beauchamp was proverbial, appearing in several contemporaneous collections :That after of that name it to an Adage grew,
    23 KB (3,692 words) - 16:19, 30 September 2020
  • ...hich the Clown defends "Siren" and the Cook puts down 5 drachmas that "her name was Hiren" (56). In further defense of "Siren," the Clown spins out to othe ...t possibly it is the same play as the one revived in August 1594 under the name of ''Mahomet''" (252, n.111). However, he treats "[[Mahomet]]" in its own e
    26 KB (4,057 words) - 13:34, 27 January 2023
  • ...erein they p''er''sonated the said Earle in Apparell, speeche, gesture and name. w''i''th much disgrace and infamy: And so grossly That the Standers by. Cr ...ast will and testament, bequeathing his vice's wooden dagger to Lincoln by name and his fool's cockscomb and bauble to all those who would not go with Sir
    27 KB (4,261 words) - 07:27, 12 March 2024
  • ...Mathias also his sonne succeeding no lesse in the valiantnes, then in the name of hys father…" (p. 722). ...stria. […] [T]he English often mistook [the word ''vaivode''] for a proper name. For example, John Foxe's ''Acts and Monuments'' gives it as the surname of
    29 KB (4,489 words) - 14:31, 4 October 2022
  • ...d whereas in the sayd Information, Mention is made of a Play called by the name of Keepe the Widow waking, this Defendt sayth, that true it is, Hee wrote t ...The following information comes from Sisson’s two-part article of the same name in the 1927 edition of ''The Library'' (pp. 39-57 & 233-59).
    26 KB (4,263 words) - 17:37, 3 August 2022
  • Wright, Laura. "On the Place-Name Isle of Dogs," in Philip Shaw, Britt Erman, Gunnel Melchers, and Peter Sund
    43 KB (5,712 words) - 15:35, 10 May 2024
  • ...to pay company expenses, but quickly stopped and struck through Downton's name. Like Downton, Rowley and Juby were both actors for the company at the time
    20 KB (3,154 words) - 19:02, 1 October 2019
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