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The Mirror Of Taste, Volume 1, No. 5, May 1810

The Mirror Of Taste, Volume 1, No. 5, May 1810

by S. C. Carpenter

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Editor
Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen), -1820?
Title
The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810
Credits
Produced by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net.
Language
English
LoC Class
AP: General Works: Periodicals
Subject
Drama -- Periodicals
Category
Text
eBook-No.
27109
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27109
Release Date
October 31, 2008
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.THE MIRROR OF TASTE, — AND — DRAMATIC CENSOR.
  2. 2.Vol. I. MAY, 1810. No. 5.
  3. 3.Contents
  4. 4.HISTORY OF THE STAGE. — CHAPTER V. — Conclusion of the Greek Drama. — MENANDER.
  5. 5.BIOGRAPHY. — LIFE OF WILLIAM GIFFORD, ESQ. AUTHOR OF THE BAEVIAD AND MAEVIAD, AND TRANSLATOR OF JUVENAL. — ( To be concluded in our next. ) — FOOTNOTES:
  6. 6.BIOGRAPHY—FOR THE MIRROR. — SKETCH OF THE LIFE OF THE LATE MR. HODGKINSON. — ( Continued from page 297. ) — ( To be continued. ) — FOOTNOTES:
  7. 7.NOKES.
  8. 8.MISCELLANY. — THEOBALDUS SECUNDUS, OR SHAKSPEARE AS HE SHOULD BE. — NO. IV. — Hamlet Prince of Denmark, continued. — ( To be Continued. ) — King Lear. — Macklin and Foote. — Macklin afterwards failed. — Countess of Carlisle's opinion of the Drama, taken from her maxims to young ladies. — The general lover—An Ovidian rhapsody. — Humorous Epilogues after Tragedies. — TO THE CONDUCTOR. — A CHAPTER ON LOGIC; — Or, the Horse Chesnut, and the Chesnut Horse. — What is the literary world? — What are the most rare animals in the world? — Addison's pedigree of Wit. — Anecdotes of Macklin. — ANECDOTE OF QUIN. — FOOTNOTES:
  9. 9.SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. — BLODWELL ROCK. — WILTSHIRE PASTIME. — ST. GILES'S PASTIME — A singular circumstance. — Pedestrianism.
  10. 10.DRAMATIC CENSOR. — From a Correspondent at New-York. — NEW-YORK THEATRICALS. — THE AFRICANS. — Mr. Cooper's second visit this season. — ALEXANDER. — MR. DWYER. — Grand Musical Performances. — FOOTNOTES:
  11. 11.KING OF CASTILE: — A TRAGEDY IN FIVE ACTS. — BY M. G. LEWIS.
  12. 12.ALFONSO, KING OF CASTILE: — DRAMATIS PERSONAE.
  13. 13.ACT I. — SCENE I.— The palace-garden.—Daybreak. — Ottilia enters in a night dress: her hair flows dishevelled. — End of Act I.
  14. 14.ACT II. — SCENE I. A hall in Cæsario's palace . — [ Shouts heard without. ] — [ Exeunt. — SCENE III.—— A garden. — End of Act II.
  15. 15.ACT III. — SCENE I.—— A chamber in the palace. — Enter Ottilia and Inis. — SCENE II. The forest as before. — Enter Cæsario and Henriquez. — End of Act III.
  16. 16.ACT IV. — SCENE I. Amelrosa's chamber. — Amelrosa in white robes, crowned with flowers , Estella, with a letter. — SCENE II. St. Juan's cloisters by moon-light.—On one side a gothic chapel. — SCENE III.—A cavern. — Enter Melchior with a lamp, as from an inner cavern . — SCENE IV.—[ The inner cavern, partially lighted with lamps. In the middle, folding doors guarded with iron bars; on one side a rough hewn staircase leading to a small door above. ] — Gomez, Marcos, and conspirators, discovered in listening attitudes . — End of Act IV.
  17. 17.ACT V. — SCENE I.— The interior of Orsino's hermitage. — Alfonso is discovered sleeping. — Enter Orsino and Ricardo. — Scene II.— A chamber in the palace. — Enter Henriquez and Melchior. — [ The scene closes. ] — Scene III.— A field of battle—alarums—thunder and lightning. — Soldiers cross the stage fighting. — Enter Orsino. — Scene IV.— Before the walls of Burgos—The storm continues. — Enter Cæsario. — End of Act V.

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