 | John Wain - 1986 - 536 pages
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 | Paul J. Korshin - 1986 - 288 pages
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 | 2001 - 376 pages
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 | Robert Andrews - 1987 - 343 pages
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 | Lawrence W. Levine - 1990 - 324 pages
...when on the stage." Here was literal proof of the continued validity of Samuel Johnson's prologue: The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live. 'The public," an American critic agreed in 1805, "in the final resort, govern the stage." It was of... | |
 | Michael Foss - 1988 - 248 pages
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 | 1988 - 296 pages
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 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 pages
...tragedies are finish'd by death, all comedies are ended by a marriage. Lord Byron (1788-1824) English poet The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live. Dr. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) English author, lexicographer A first night . . . notoriously distracting... | |
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Ah ! let not Censure term our fate our choice, The stage but echoes back the public voice ; The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live. 
