 | Sir Sidney Lee - 1898 - 526 pages
...the opportunity which offered Shakespeare fame and fortune. According to Rowe's vague statement, ' he was received into the company then in being at first in a very mean rank.' William Castle, the parish clerk of Stratford at the end of the seventeenth century, was in the habit... | |
 | Sir Sidney Lee - 1898 - 536 pages
...the opportunity which offered Shakespeare fame and fortune. According to Rowe's vague statement, ' he was received into the company then in being at first in a very mean rank.' William Castle, the parish clerk of Stratford at the end of the seventeenth century, was in the habit... | |
 | Sir Sidney Lee - 1898 - 526 pages
...opportunity which offered Shakespeare Vltor' fame and fortune. According to Rowe's vague statement, '' he was received into the company then in being at first in a very mean rank.' William Castle, the parish clerk of Stratford at the end of the seventeenth century, was in the habit... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1899 - 966 pages
...we cannot doubt that Bowe, Shakespeare's earliest biographer, states with substantial truth that be was " received into the company then in being at first in a very mean rank." The playwrights of established position — Greene, Lodge, Peele, Nash, Marlowe — had all received... | |
 | Sir Sidney Lee - 1899 - 454 pages
...the opportunity which offered Shakespeare fame and fortune. According to Rov/e's vague statement, ' he was received into the company then in being at first in a very A play- mean rank.' William Castle, the parish clerk of Stratford at the vitor. " end of the seventeenth... | |
 | Sir Sidney Lee - 1900 - 270 pages
...the opportunity which offered Shakespeare fame and fortune. According to Rowe's vague statement, ' he was received into the company then in being at first in a very mean rank.' William Castle, the parish clerk of Stratford at the end of the seventeenth century, was in the habit... | |
 | Hamilton Wright Mabie - 1900 - 378 pages
...Shakespeare the craftsman and Shakespeare the artist were ideal collaborators. Rowe's statement that " he was received into the company then in being at first in a very mean rank " has behind it two credible and probable traditions : the story that he entered the theatre as a mere... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 434 pages
...this accident, that he is said to have made his first acquaintance in the Play-house. He was receiv'd into the Company then in being, at first in a very...wit, and the natural turn of it to the stage, soon distinguish'd him, if not as an extraordinary Actor, yet as an excellent Writer. His name is printed,... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 450 pages
...oblig'd to leave his business and family in Warwickshire, for some time, and shelter himself in London. It is at this time, and upon this accident, that he...made his first acquaintance in the Play-house. He was receiv'd into the Company then in being, at first in a very mean rank ; but his admirable wit, and... | |
 | David Nichol Smith - 1903 - 434 pages
...oblig'd to leave his business and family in Warwickshire, for some time, and shelter himself in London. It is at this time, and upon this accident, that he...made his first acquaintance in the Play-house. He was receiv'd into the Company then in being, at first in a very mean rank ; but his admirable wit, and... | |
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Warwickshire for some time and shelter himself in London. It is at this time, and upon this accident, that he is said to have made his first acquaintance in the playhouse. He was received into the company then in being, at first in a very mean rank... 
