 | Martin Banham - 1996 - 436 pages
...opening of Garrick's management of DRURY LANE in 1747, formulating his managerial policy in the couplet "The Drama's laws the Drama's patrons give,/ For we that live to please must please to live.' His only play, Irene, was produced by Garrick in 1749. A sterile tragedy, it survived for nine nights... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 pages
...tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage. GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON, ÖTH 3 The drama's laws, the drama's patrons give, For we that live to please, must please to live. SAMUEL JOHNSON, (1709-1784) British author, lexicographer. "Prologue at the Opening of the Theatre... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 1997 - 290 pages
...responsible: Ah! let not Censure term our Fate our Choice, The Stage but echoes back the publick Voice. The Drama's Laws the Drama's Patrons give. For we that live to please, must please to live. (51-54) Johnson's symbolic transfer of the audience to the stage allows him unthreatening incrimination... | |
 | Pierre Danchin - 1990 - 440 pages
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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. 
