"Squeamishly" Quotes from Famous Books
... described it as "a farce, as it was d—d at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane." This was a following of Ben Jonson's example, who, publishing his "New Inn," makes mention of it as a comedy "never acted, but most negligently played by some of the king's servants, and more squeamishly beheld and censured by others the king's subjects, 1629; and now, at last, set at liberty to the readers, his majesty's servants and subjects, to be ... — A Book of the Play - Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character • Dutton Cook |