| Nathaniel Wanley - Characters and characteristics - 1806 - 552 pages
...their own art. - 1. Richard Burbage and Edward Allen, were two such actors in queen Elizabeth's time, as no age must ever look to see the like: and to make their comedies cqmplete, Richard Tarleton, who for his" part played the clown, never had his match, nor ever will... | |
| Nathaniel Wanley - Characters and characteristics - 1806 - 590 pages
...their own art. 1. Richard Burbage and Edward Allen, were two such actors in queen Elizabeth's time, as no age must ever look. to see the like : and to make thefr comedies complete, Richard Tarleton, who for his part played the clown, never liad bis match,... | |
| George Alexander Cooke - England - 1817 - 364 pages
...acquired great celebrity in his profession, Baker speaking ot him and Burhage, says, " they were too such actors, as no age must ever look to see the like." Heywood calls him. " Proteus' for shapes, and Roscins for a tongue." Fuller says, he was the Roscins... | |
| Theater - 1824 - 462 pages
...uncommon applause. BAKER, in his Chronicles, says, that " RICHARD BOWBRIDGE arid EDWARD ALLEYN were two such actors as no age must ever look to see the like;" and HEYWOOD, speaking of ALLEYN in Barabbas (the Jew) and other characters, says, he was " Proteus for... | |
| Thomas Kitson Cromwell - Surrey (England) - 1821 - 300 pages
...him " Proteus for shapes, and Roscius for tongue." Baker says of him and Burbage, that " they were two such actors as no age must ever look to see the like ;" while Ben Johnson, and others of his contemporaries, also make mention of him in the highest terms... | |
| Thomas Cromwell - NEH British History Preservation Project - 1996 - 1821 - 314 pages
...him " Proteus for shapes, and Roscius for tongue/' Baker says of him and Burbage, that " they were two such actors as no age must ever look to see the like f while Ben Johnson, and others of his contemporaries, also make mention of him in the highest terms... | |
| William Goodhugh - Best books - 1827 - 402 pages
...men as Richard Burhage and Edward Allen i "two such actors" (says Baker, in his Chronicle, p. 423,) "as no age must ever look to see the like ; and, to make their comedies complete, Richard Tarlton never had his match ; never will have, t One Decker, as Pennant term!) him,... | |
| George Alexander Cooke - Surrey (England) - 1830 - 202 pages
...soon acquired great celebrity in his profession. Baker, speaking of him and Burbage, says, " they were two such actors as no age must ever look to see the like." Heywood calls him " Proteus for shapes, and Roscius for a tongue." Fuller says he was the Roscius of... | |
| English periodicals - 1831 - 512 pages
...actors, ' Excellency in 'he meanest things deserves remembrance. Richard Burbidge,* and Edward AIlen,t two such actors, as no age must ever look to see the like ; and to make their comedies complete, Richard Tarleton, for the clown's part, never had his match, nor never will have.' What this... | |
| David Paul Brown - 1838 - 86 pages
...such commendation, it may be allowed us to do the like with some of our own nation. Richard Burbige and Edward Allen, two such actors as no age must ever look to see the like, and to make their comedies complete, Richard Tarleton, who, for the part called the clown's part, never had his match, never will... | |
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