Word: actor
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Shakspere's London period is one of great literary activity. He was an actor in the Blackfriars Theatre and was engaged in writing and recasting plays. By 1598 he had written at least 12 and perhaps 16 plays and two non-dramatic poems. In 1603 six more plays had appeared and in the reign of James the additional works were produced. He probably never sent any of his writings to the printer's except Venus and Adonis and Lucrece. It has been many times asserted that his objects in writing were purely mercenary. This is not true. He was making...
...those who have read Greek drama as literature only. For the settlement of the, question as to whether the principals in a Greek play acted on a long, narrow ledge, the Vetruvian stage, ten feet above the great circles of the orchestra where the chorus were grouped, or whether actors as well as chorus performed in the orchestra, is of great importance even to the general reader, as the whole stage action is involved. Until very lately, scholars following the scholiast have interpreted Greek drama from the standpoint of the existence of a stage, basing their opinions first...
...October number of the Century contains the conclusion of the Autobiography of Joseph Jefferson, which for several months has been a feature of the magazine. The frontispiece, a portrait of the veteran actor, goes with the article. Edward Eggleston turns from tales of Hoosier schoolmasters and of Yankee life to describe "Out of the Ways in High Savoy...