The Monthly Review, Vol. 2: From May to August Inclusive, 1826; With an Appendix (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

Ralph Griffiths

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0332436101 ISBN 13: 9780332436104

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from The Monthly Review, Vol. 2: From May to August Inclusive, 1826; With an Appendix

We have, however, every disposition to do full justice to the curious interest and real merits of Mr. Sharp's volume. If he has been able to add no novel facts or fresh conclusions to those already familiar to the dramatic scholar, his researches have certainly con siderably augmented the general mass of details relating to the machinery of the pageants, the costume of those rude theatres, and Lhe dramatis persanes of the mysteries; and though the particulars which he has brought forward prove only the pertéct similarity of these Coventry exhibitions to the performances at Chester, York, and various others of our provincial towns, yet the result of the comparison is satisfactory and interesting. Mr. Sharp, moreover, has introduced many incidental and correlative particulars on some of the manners and customs of our ancestors: several of the plates which adorn his volume are highly curious; and the work, which is handsomely got up, may altogether be pronounced a very pleasing and acceptable contribution to our archaeological literature.

As the costliness and rarity of the volume, as well as its elaborate form and the multiplicity of its details, will preclude it from general circulation and perusal, we shall probably be rendering our readers an agreeable service by giving such an account of its contents, and com, pressing into our pages as many of its most interesting points, as our limits will permit. Mr. Sharp has commenced by directing and separating his enquiries into the Nature of the Vehicles on which the Mysteries were represented, the Characters which figured in the exhibition, and the Dresses of the actors. He informs us, that he was induced to compile the present dissertation from having, in the course of acquiring materials for the history of his native city, examined the ancient books and documents belonging to the cor poration, and the remaining account-books and other writings of the trading companies, and thereby been enabled to collect a con siderable body of information respecting the pageants, or mysteries, formerly exhibiting at Coventry; tending, more particularly, to elucidate the management, machinery, dresses, character, and ia ternal economy of those performances.'

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0332436101
• ISBN 13: 9780332436104
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 558