Let not the ordinary playgoer be dismayed at the prospect before him. From Wordnik.com. [An Autobiography]
Adding insult to injury, the playgoer paid a lot of money for this disappointment. From Wordnik.com. [Journey’s End (The Boomer Blog)] Reference
Anglo-Saxon playgoer, who demands that drama shall contain that great essential of all good drama, action. From Wordnik.com. [William of Germany] Reference
To Roland he looked like an en-thralled playgoer in a penny seat; all he needed was a lapful of orange-peel. From Wordnik.com. [Wizard and Glass]
But to the critical playgoer of 1590 few plays would have seemed either 'right comedies' or 'right tragedies.'. From Wordnik.com. [The Facts About Shakespeare] Reference
New York Two-character musicals are hard to pull off, though I suspect it's mainly because of the expectations of the average playgoer. From Wordnik.com. [Get Thee to New Jersey] Reference
The setting of "Billy Elliot" is the British miners 'strike of 1984-85, about which the average American playgoer knows absolutely nothing. From Wordnik.com. [Karl Marx in a Tutu] Reference
I am not much of a playgoer, but in Dublin we always went to the theatre on the chance of hearing some of the proverbial wit of its gallery. From Wordnik.com. [The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent] Reference
And usually, we may note, the playgoer is youthful. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character] Reference
An old playgoer is almost a contradiction in terms. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character] Reference
How different the attitude of the occasional playgoer!. From Wordnik.com. [Without Prejudice] Reference
What playgoer will give a valid analysis of King Lear?. From Wordnik.com. [A Hero and Some Other Folks] Reference
But you cannot argue with the playgoer who stays away. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O] Reference
"My memory as a playgoer doesn't extend over many years," he began. From Wordnik.com. [Blind Love] Reference
The opposition is the firm and narrow mind of the British playgoer. From Wordnik.com. [Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory] Reference
You might think of this next time you drop across the old playgoer. From Wordnik.com. [Prose Fancies] Reference
I am not much of a playgoer, I was very pleased to have Mr. Iglesias invite me. From Wordnik.com. [The Far Horizon] Reference
Some of the pleasantest memories of the playgoer concern superb performances by. From Wordnik.com. [Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette"] Reference
This is how an ordinary playgoer contrasted the reception of Jonson's Roman play of. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays] Reference
How absurd, then, for the average critic to be play-taster to the occasional playgoer!. From Wordnik.com. [Without Prejudice] Reference
Darrell, who never was a playgoer, and who, to his shame be it said, had looked very little into. From Wordnik.com. [What Will He Do with It? — Complete] Reference
As the English playgoer does not ask for intelligible situations, he is satisfied with the residuum. From Wordnik.com. [Without Prejudice] Reference
Half-price was an institution of old date, however, and by no means without advantage to the playgoer. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character] Reference
The playgoer no longer demands whatever of primal passion is presented to him to be dressed in doublet and hose. From Wordnik.com. [The Onlooker, Volume 1, Part 2] Reference
Dr. Forman, the astrologer who kept notes of some of his experiences as a playgoer, saw 'Cymbeline' acted either in. From Wordnik.com. [A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles] Reference
The playgoer does not always agree with the player, still less with that unfortunate object, the poor actor-manager. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Eloquence: Vol II, After-Dinner Speeches E-O] Reference
The average Elizabethan repudiated the jeremiads of the ultra-pious, and instantaneously became an enthusiastic playgoer. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays] Reference
The Elizabethan's hard fate strangely contrasts with the situation of the playgoer of the nineteenth or twentieth century. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare and the Modern Stage with Other Essays] Reference
Incidentally, it may be asked whether the ordinary playgoer exactly appreciates the position of the last rows of the stalls. From Wordnik.com. [Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette"] Reference
He was not a playgoer, being of such fastidious taste that he was easily disgusted by the bad filling-up of the inferior parts. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 1] Reference
The cry of the average playgoer is for "action," to be sure; but even "action" may be heightened by contrast, by peace and serenity. From Wordnik.com. [Penguin Persons & Peppermints] Reference
From the average commercial manager's point of view there is a question about that seamy kind of thing getting over with the playgoer. From Wordnik.com. [Star-Dust] Reference
Art would be better served by the old-fashioned method, for the playgoer is more willing to concede a whole than a half "make-belief.". From Wordnik.com. [Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette"] Reference
Bjørnson closes this general discussion of scenery and properties with a word about the supreme importance of imagination to the playgoer. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay Toward a History of Shakespeare in Norway] Reference
But a literal version is rarely attempted; for the original incidents, thoughts, and emotions would be unintelligible to the average reader or playgoer. From Wordnik.com. [Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints] Reference
Chamberlain has suppressed, the old playgoer of London could point to five which, had he been more intelligent, he might more reasonably have suppressed in its place. From Wordnik.com. [Nonsenseorship] Reference
I used to go about, like many another delighted playgoer, I expect, quoting the better bits in it, and they are many, and often laughing to himself at its admirable caricature. From Wordnik.com. [Crowded Out! and Other Sketches] Reference
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