...more appositely, in The Rape of Lucrece, 1594 : " Black stage for tragedies, and murthers fell." 9 " What child is there, that coming to a play and seeing Thebes written upon an old door, doth believe that it is Thebes?" Defence of Poesie, by Sir Philip Sidney. Signat. G. 1595. When D'Avenant introduced...

...more appositely, in The Rape of Lucrece, 1594 : " Black stage for tragedies, and murthers fell." 9 " What child is there, that coming to a play and seeing Thebes lent ten upon an old door, doth believe that it is Thebes?" Defence of Poesie, by Sir Philip Sidney....

...so as to be visible to the audience. In The Defence of Poesie, by sir Philip Sydney, 1595, he says: om the smoke into the smother; From tyrant doke, unto a tyrant brother: — Bat heavenly Rosalind! [B that it is Thebes V And Davenant, in the Introduction to his Siego of Rhodes, 1650, >ays : " In the...

...1595, alludes to the custom of writing the supposed locality of each scene over the stage, and asks, "What child is there that coming to a play, and seeing Thebes written in great letters on an old door, doth believe that it is Thebes." As late as the production of Davenant's...

...1595, alludes to the custom of writing the supposed locality of each scene over the stage, and asks, " What child is there that coming to a play, and seeing Thebes written in great letters on an old door, doth believe that it is Thebes." As late as the production of Davenant's...

...1595, alludes to the custom of writing the supposed locality of each scene over the stage, and asks, "What child is there that coming to a play, and seeing Thebes written in great letters on an old door, doth believe that it is Thebes." As late as the production of Davenant's...

...wrote it for actually true were well worthy to have his name chronicled among the beasts he writeth of. What child is there that, coming to a play and seeing ' Thebes ' written in great letters upon an old door, doth believe that it is Thebes 1 If then a man can arrive to the...

...Sir Philip Sidney says, when speaking of the old theatrical practice of labeling the stage-scenery, " What child is there, that, coming to a play, and seeing 'Thebes' written on an old door, doth believe that it is Thebes ? " But all history, and art, and science are but so...

...same place, and we are to blame if we accept it not for a rock." Again, however, Sir Philip says, " What child is there that coming to a play, and seeing Thebes written upon an old door, doth believe that it is Thebes ? " Sir William Davenant also, in the Introduction to the '' Siege of Rhodes," says,...

...is unnecessary to point out here. * Gibbon, chap. x. t Chandler. t See Sidney's Defence of Poesy. " What child is there that, coming to a play, and seeing Thebes written in great letters upon an old door, doth believe that it is Thebes?" This rude device was probably employed...