She was so well pleased with that admirable character of Falstaff, in The Two Parts of Henry the Fourth, that she commanded him to continue it for one play more, and to shew him in love. This is said to be the occasion of his writing The Merry Wives of... The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select - Page 74by Reuben Percy - 1826Full view - About this book
| William Shakespeare - 1788 - 318 pages
...brought in, and very handsomely applied to her. She was so well pleased with that admirable charafter of Falstaff, in The two Parts of Henry the Fourth, that she commanded him to continue it for one play more, and to shew him in love. This is said to be the occasion of his... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1798 - 306 pages
...Elizabeth," says a writer of Shakspeare's life, " was so well pleas'd with that admirable character of Falstaff, in the two parts of Henry the Fourth, that she commanded him to continue it for one play more, and to shew him in love. This is said to be the occasion of his... | |
| Stephen Jones - Biography - 1799 - 456 pages
...engaged nor d«*eivtd his attention ; it was Elizabeth was so much pleased with the delightful charadcr of Sir John Falstaff, in the two parts of " Henry...the author to continue it for one play more, and to shew the knight in love; which he executed inimitably, in " The Merry'Wives of Windsor."The names of... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1803 - 494 pages
...brought in, and very handsomely applied to her. She was so well pleased with that admirable character of FalstafF, in The Two Parts of Henry the Fourth, that she commanded him to continue it for one play rnore, and to show him in love. This is said to, b$ the occasion of... | |
| Stephen Jones - Biography - 1805 - 470 pages
...said, that queen Elizabeth was so much pleased with the delightful charaâer of Sir John FalstafT, in the two parts of " Henry the Fourth," that she...the author to continue it for one play more, and to sbew the knight in love; which he executed inimitably, in " The Merry Wives of Windsor." The names... | |
| Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 322 pages
...brought in, and very handsomely applied to ner. She was so well pleased with that admirable character of Falstaff, in "The two Parts of Henry the Fourth," that she commanded him to continue it for one play more, and to shew him in love. This is said to be the occasion of his... | |
| William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough - 1807 - 578 pages
...brought in, and very handsomely applied to her. She was so well pleased with that admirable character of Falstaff, in The Two Parts of Henry the Fourth, that she commanded him to continue it for one play more, and to shew him. in love. This is said to be the occasion of... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1809 - 390 pages
...brought in, and very handsomely applied to her. She was so well pleased with that admirable character of Falstaff, in The Two Parts of Henry the Fourth, that she commanded him to continue it for one play more,* and to show him in love. This is said to be the occasion of... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1809 - 394 pages
...Elizabeth," says a writer of Shakspeare's life, "was so well pleas'd with that admirable character of Falstaff, in the two parts of Henry the Fourth, that she commanded him to continue it for one play more, and to shew him in love. This is said to be the occasion of his... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1810 - 444 pages
...brought in, and very handsomely applied to her. She was so well pleased with that admirable character of Falstaff, in The Two Parts of Henry the Fourth, that she commanded him to continue it for one play more, and to shew him in love. This is said to be the occasion of his... | |
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