10
The first wrote eighteen hundred plays, the variety in the plots of which is so prodigious, that they are the great quarry from which almost all subsequent dramatic writers have borrowed the elements of their theatrical pieces.
11
Euripides was fifteen years younger than Sophocles – the latter being born in the year 495 b. c., the former in 480; and they thrice contended for the prize at the public games of Greece.
12
Miss Cushman's Lady Macbeth is a performance of the very highest merit, and proves that the genius of the stage is capable of being matured in transatlantic climes.
13
At the execution of Doolan and another, for a combination murder near Glasgow, on May 13th, 1842.
14
Schiller's dramas are of the modern kind, and the unities are not strictly observed; but his finer pieces belong more nearly to the Grecian than the Romantic school.