Search results

Results 21 – 60 of 62
Advanced search

Search in namespaces:

  • ...viewTranscripts.jsp?play=LS&act=1&type=BOTH ''The Love Sick Court''] as a "gentleman belonging to the King". Intriguingly, "Agnostus" appears as a character ("a
    6 KB (857 words) - 11:06, 12 November 2019
  • Richard Brome, ''A Mad Couple Well Matched''. The rakish gentleman Careless and his servant Wat are penniless, and discussing how to make some :O base Villaine! No I'le never fall so deep below a Gentleman, as to be Master of a Baudy-house.
    9 KB (1,473 words) - 15:58, 10 December 2021
  • (Jordan, "A Gentleman in love with twenty Mistresses", in ''Poetical Varieties'', 2).
    5 KB (680 words) - 14:04, 10 December 2021
  • ...as once content to be “Goodman Tailor” but now styles himself “Merchant or Gentleman-Merchant-Tailor” (p. 30). Another is the professional whose very work is
    11 KB (1,692 words) - 21:43, 7 July 2022
  • ...eleases a great devil out of her mouth. In return for his assistance, the gentleman grants the Prior an enormous load of lead for the roof of a new church. Th
    14 KB (2,398 words) - 17:21, 31 May 2019
  • ...ntice represented by plays such as ''The Four Prentices''; ''A Shoemaker a Gentleman''; and Thomas Rawlins' ''The Rebellion''.
    6 KB (886 words) - 14:02, 10 December 2021
  • ...): "Dr Furnivall told me many years ago that the MS. was in the hands of a gentleman at Oxford, who was editing Tourneur's Works; but I have heard nothing furth The "gentleman at Oxford" referred to by Hazlitt might also be Collins himself, who began
    12 KB (1,945 words) - 12:14, 8 February 2023
  • | Gentleman Vsher.
    8 KB (977 words) - 17:48, 30 August 2018
  • ...thief” may indicate that the narrative was based on the convention of the gentleman robber, most famously embodied by the figure of Robin Hood but also encompa
    6 KB (955 words) - 09:18, 29 May 2020
  • :[Receaved by mee George Chapman gentleman of M<sup>r</sup>]
    7 KB (1,053 words) - 19:45, 13 March 2024
  • ...etter, a ring, gold, blue coats, slops, a rapier, a false beard, a country gentleman's attire with padding, a nightgown, and "physicians' gowns" of fustian (Car
    18 KB (2,963 words) - 10:43, 21 December 2023
  • :Gentleman of verona. :Shoemaker a Gentleman.
    14 KB (1,964 words) - 05:01, 1 August 2018
  • ...had spent much, and learnt little, one whose outside onely shewd he was a Gentleman," and one who "to make him wise, and to take héede what pasture he breakes
    7 KB (1,101 words) - 10:16, 21 September 2022
  • ...at was no disgrace, nor any blemish to his reputation beeing but a priuate Gentleman, and no King nor Prince, for hee left the keeping of them to his captaines.
    8 KB (1,251 words) - 15:54, 10 December 2021
  • ''Titus'' a noble Gentleman more illustrious for his Christian courage, then parentage: was sollicited
    9 KB (1,320 words) - 09:36, 1 October 2021
  • ...kker's '' The Shoemaker's Holiday'' and William Rowley's ''The Shoemaker a Gentleman''.
    14 KB (2,248 words) - 12:57, 4 July 2018
  • ...r having made him rail against heaven over the flight of a bird and have a gentleman beaten for calling off his dogs, they portrayed him as drunk at least once ...hunter, "rail[ing] against heaven over the flight of a bird" and having "a gentleman beaten for calling off his dogs." The play also targeted James's favourites
    19 KB (2,951 words) - 16:26, 1 July 2019
  • ...eele dresses him in clothes of his own and slips away, leaving the hapless gentleman—now mistaken for Peele—to pay the four nobles owed on the rent of the r Anon. ''Merrie Conceited Iests, of George Peele Gentleman, sometimes a student in Oxford''. 1607. [http://www.luminarium.org/renascen
    26 KB (4,057 words) - 13:34, 27 January 2023
  • ...nt and lost plays about British saints including Rowley's ''A Shoemaker, a Gentleman'' and the anonymous and lost "[[England’s First Happiness, or The Life of
    11 KB (1,707 words) - 12:31, 20 January 2022
  • ...ef. 1606), where a character is described as strutting "... as if hee were gentleman Vsher to the Great ''Turke'', or the Diuell of ''Dowgate''", and a referenc
    10 KB (1,642 words) - 15:26, 10 December 2021
  • ::''To that worthy and generous Gentleman, my very good friend'', Captaine Smith.
    11 KB (1,747 words) - 23:25, 1 August 2012
  • ...his praise to his face, tho hee bee as fell a mastiue as euer rann vpon a gentleman: yett the curre is of a good breede, ''and to one hee knowes will shake his :a gentleman, yet the cur is of a good
    35 KB (5,671 words) - 09:22, 12 February 2023
  • ...he laborious task of editorship myself, instead of transferring it to that gentleman, as it was my intention to have done" ("Statement," 9). Editing ''Believe a
    13 KB (1,882 words) - 13:10, 21 December 2022
  • ...ebster writes in his dedication "To the Right Worthie, and All-accomplisht Gentleman, Sir Thomas Finch, Knight Baronet":
    13 KB (1,913 words) - 14:22, 8 September 2020
  • ...n than prince-like honour, [Katherine] tooke to husband priuilie a gallant gentleman and a right beautifull person, iudued with manie goodlie gifts both of bodi
    12 KB (1,894 words) - 17:06, 4 October 2022
  • ...n, ''The Historie of George Castriot, Surnamed Scanderbeg'', trans. "Z. I. Gentleman", 1596.
    13 KB (1,929 words) - 15:29, 10 December 2021
  • ...of other notable writers concerning the same. Set foorth by Raph Rabbards Gentleman, studious and expert in archemicall artes.'' 1591. </div>
    13 KB (1,855 words) - 16:16, 3 October 2022
  • ===Among the library holdings of a Warwickshire Gentleman?===
    34 KB (5,171 words) - 15:30, 10 December 2021
  • ...hes at Paris Garden, where one is found by two watermen and the other by a gentleman walking his dog. Merry’s servant, Harry Williams, gets branded for withho
    16 KB (2,488 words) - 15:55, 10 December 2021
  • ...n Flushing; and shee her selfe, with Cosby and his Sister, together with a Gentleman Master Green, who had carried Letters betwixt the two Adulterers: (though h
    14 KB (2,294 words) - 17:50, 11 March 2024
  • :Receaved by mee Robert Daborne gentleman of Phillipp Henchlowe Esquier the 24 of december 1613 the some of seaven po
    16 KB (2,687 words) - 17:43, 23 August 2021
  • ...&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</strike> Madam this gentleman </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td>And if I like the gentleman and the tearmes </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr>
    196 KB (37,845 words) - 00:23, 9 May 2016
  • <tr><td>Poore: </td><td>————————Madam this gentleman </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr> <tr><td> </td><td>And if I like the gentleman and the tearmes </td><td> </td><td> </td></tr>
    147 KB (28,947 words) - 01:03, 3 December 2015
  • ...inished 1588. Written by Master Francis Pretty lately of Ey in Suffolke, a Gentleman employed in the same action.'' in Richard Hakluyt, ''The principal nauigati
    16 KB (2,405 words) - 18:26, 25 September 2019
  • ...all'' begins with the confession (extracted on the rack) of John de Paris, Gentleman of the Chamber to Prince Maurcie de Nassau and “present prisoner in the C
    16 KB (2,651 words) - 15:31, 10 December 2021
  • :&nbsp;&nbsp;''Now'': They did the more wrong to the gentleman.
    17 KB (2,784 words) - 15:53, 10 December 2021
  • ...m; text-indent: -2em">[Lichfield, Richard]. ''The Trimming of Thomas Nashe Gentleman''. London: Philip Scarlet, 1597.</div>
    19 KB (2,991 words) - 05:02, 1 August 2018
  • ...otoriety for his wit, attractiveness, and reckless aspiration as the first gentleman of the queen’s household, rapidly cultivating the resentment of competiti
    20 KB (3,245 words) - 13:47, 13 April 2016
  • Poore&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Madam this gentleman<br \> ...sp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;And if I like the gentleman and the tearmes<br \>
    173 KB (30,575 words) - 04:17, 2 December 2015
  • ...2em; text-indent: -2em">Lichfield, Richard. ''The trimming of Thomas Nashe Gentleman, by the high-tituled patron Don Richardo de Medico campo, barber chirurgion
    40 KB (6,428 words) - 20:58, 10 March 2021
View ( | next 50) (20 | 50 | 100 | 250 | 500)