Word: goer
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...often suffered to interrupt action, and that Shakespeare not infrequently uses what seems to many persons a single and arbitrary psychology-vide for example the marriage of Celia and Oliver and that of Isabella and the Duke-makes Shakespeare-land seem a foreign country to the ordinary play goer and to not a few readers, who are by no means ordinary. But the realistic and materialistic trend of our own time is one of the strongest reasons for going back to Shakespeare's country and dwelling in it until we have learned to take familiar delight there...
...theatre-goer who loves good dramatic literature or who takes pleasure in contemplating an eminently well-bred and well-dressed gentleman cannot but be delighted with "Beau Brummell" as Richard Mansfield shows him to the Globe Theatre audiences. There is an exquisite artistic delicacy in his impersonation of this most noted of English swells, and throughout the play the dialogue is admirable in its terseness and its polish. The delineation of the minor characters is excellent, and "Beau Brummell," as a play, is a piece of work at once literary and effective...