| Samuel Pepys - 1877 - 514 páginas
...playhouse, and saw " Hamlet," which we have not seen this year before, or more ; and mightily pleased with it ; but, above all, with Betterton, the best part, I believe, 1 In Fleet Street. that ever man acted. Thence to the Fayre, and saw " Polichinelle," and so home.... | |
| Samuel [collections] Pepys - 1877 - 514 páginas
...playhouse, and saw " Hamlet," which we have not seen this year before, or more ; and mightily pleased with it ; but, above all, with Betterton, the best part, I believe, 1 In Fleet Street. that ever man acted. Thence to the Fayre, and saw " Polichinelle," and so home.... | |
| Charles Wilkins - 1885 - 786 páginas
...of York's Play-house, and saw Bamlef which we have not seen this year before, and mightily pleased with it, but above all with Betterton, the best part I believe that ever man acted. While speaking of Shakspeare it is interesting to note the number of Elizabethan plays that were put... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1890 - 620 páginas
...which latter occasion he says that he had not seen it "this year before, or more; and mightily pleased with it, but above all with Betterton, the best part, I believe, that ever man acted" (vol. vp 347). So long as Betterton lived no one seems to have cared to dispute his supremacy in this... | |
| Henry Pitt Phelps - 1890 - 224 páginas
...play-house, and there saw Hamlet, which we have not seen this year before, or more ; and mightily pleased with it, but above all with Betterton, the best part, I believe, that ever man acted." When we consider the rather light estimate in which this amusing old critic held the plays and characters... | |
| Robert William Lowe - 1891 - 210 páginas
...Playhouse, and saw Hamlet, which we have not seen this year before, or more ; and mightily pleased with it ; but, above all, with Betterton, the best part, I believe, that ever man acted." His Ophelia was Mrs. Saunderson; the King was played by Lilliston ; the Ghost, by Richards • Cave... | |
| William Allingham - 1893 - 396 páginas
...ordinary plays.' To do Samuel justice, he was ' mightily pleased ' with Hamlet (August 31, 1668) ; ' but, above all, with Betterton, the best part, I believe, that ever man acted.' Frank. It is pleasant to part with our friendly Diarist on good terms. How persistently Shakespeare... | |
| Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright - 1896 - 166 páginas
...Hewer was, and saw " Hamlet, " which we have not seen this year before, or more; and mightily pleased with it; but, above all, with Betterton, the best...to the Fayre, and saw " Polichinelle," and so home, and after a little supper to bed. This night lay the first night in Deb.'s chamber, which is now hung... | |
| Charles Edgar Lewis Wingate - 1896 - 444 páginas
...later on, after witnessing another performance, he affirmed enthusiastically, " I was mightily pleased with it, but above all with Betterton, the best part, I believe, that ever man acted." Admiration without stint was poured by Colley Gibber upon the acting of the elder player. Sitting one... | |
| Sara Elizabeth Husted Lockwood, Mary Alice Emerson - 1901 - 490 páginas
...playhouse, and saw "Hamlet," which we have not seen this year before ; or more; and mightily pleased with it, but above all with Betterton, the best part, I believe that ever man acted. September 1. To the fair, and there saw several sights ; among others, the mare that tells money and... | |
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