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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.

The Monthly Mirror: Reflecting Men and Manners : with Strictures on Their ... - Page 51
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Richard III

William Shakespeare - 1998 - 338 pages

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Samuel Johnson: The Life of an Author

Lawrence Lipking - 1998 - 422 pages

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A Midsummer Night's Dream

William Shakespeare - 1998 - 244 pages

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As You Like It

William Shakespeare - 1998 - 308 pages

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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

Elizabeth M. Knowles - 1999 - 1156 pages

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Richard II

William Shakespeare - 1999 - 340 pages

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A New History of the English Stage

Percy H. Fitzgerald - 2000 - 473 pages

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The St. Petersburg Imperial Theaters: Stage and State in Revolutionary ...

Murray Frame - 2000 - 228 pages

...theaters were ill-advised to overlook the wishes of the audience. As Samuel Johnson put it in 1765, "The Drama's laws the Drama's patrons give / For we that live to please must please to live." Ultimately, as a consequence of Dr. Johnson's dictum, serious financial problems did not emanate from...

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The Writing Life of Hugh Kelly: Politics, Journalism, and Theater in Late ...

Robert R. Bataille - 2000 - 232 pages

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Popular Culture in American History

Jim Cullen - 2000 - 328 pages

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