...miscellany, I *ball here transcribe them : " A Prologue, to introduce the Jlrst woman that came to ad on the stage, in the tragedy called The Moor of Venice. " I come, unknown to any of the rest, " To tell you news ; I saw the lady drest : " The woman plays to-day:...

...Thomas Jordan, no date, but printed, I believe, in 1662. Jordan was an actor as well as a poet. ** A Prologue, to introduce the first woman that came...stage, in the tragedy called The Moor of Venice. " I come, unknown to any of the rest, " To tell you news; I saw the lady drest : " The woman plays to-day...

...Thomas Jordan, and being only found in a very scarce miscellany 4, I shall here transcribe them : " A Prologue, to introduce the first woman that came...stage, in the tragedy called The Moor of Venice. • i . . " I come, unknown to any of the rest, " To tell you news ; I saw the lad}' drest : " The woman...

...heroine of Davenport's " King John." It seems from a prologue written by Thomas Jordan, expressly " to introduce the first woman that came to act on the stage," that this lady, who performed Desdemma, was an unmarried woman, and as Ann Marshall was the principal...

...Mr. Malone believes, in 1662. Jordan was an actor as well as a poet. : A Prologue, to introduce tlie first Woman that came to act on the Stage, in the Tragedy called The Moor of Venice. " I come, unknown to any of the rest, To tell you news ; I saw the lady drest : The woman plays to-day...

...female, Mr. Malone quotes, from a " very scarce miscellany," a prologue, written by Thomas Gordon, to introduce the first woman that came to act on the...stage, in the tragedy called the " Moor of Venice." The following extract from the prologue will shew the necessity of the innovation, and the plea put...

...female, Mr. Malone quotes, from a " very scarce miscellany," a prologue, written by Thomas Gordon, to introduce the first woman that came to act on the...stage, in the tragedy called the " Moor of Venice." The following extract from the prologue will shew the necessity of the innovation, and the plea put...

...English stage belonged to this theatre ; for it was Thomas Jordan, an actor at the Red Bull, who wrote " A Prologue, to introduce the first Woman that came...Stage, in the Tragedy called The Moor of Venice." This was just prior to the Restoration: the name of the "gentle Desdemona" who volunteered to supplant...

...one of the few players and poets who lived to see the restoration of 20 ¡_ THE ALDINE MAGAZINE. 21 first Woman that came to act on the Stage, in the tragedy called the Moor of Venice." From this composition we extract the following lines : — " Our women are defective, and so sized,...

...performers some months before D'Avenant opened his theatre. Thomas Jordan wrote a prologue expressly " to introduce the first woman that came to act on the stage." It appears from this, that the lady, who performed Desdemona, was an unmarried woman ; and as Ann Marshall...