...Othello, to introduce the fint actrtsi on our stage, has humorously touched on this gross absurdity : " Our women are defective, and so sized, You'd think they were some of the guard disguised ; For to spenk truth, men act, that are between Forty and fifty, wenches of fifteen ; With brows so large, and...

...written for the introduction of the first actress: HELENA MODJESKA. JULIA MARLOWE. GEORGIA CAYVAN. 4 Our women are defective, and so sized You'd think...incompliant, When you call Desdemona enter giant." The work that properly belonged to women, when given to men, often caused ridiculous incongruities ; and...

...the stage. Our women are defective, and so siz'd, You'd think they were some of the guard disguis'd ; For, to speak truth, men act, that are between Forty...incompliant, When you call Desdemona, enter Giant." Not all the female characters were at once given to women. Pepys, who failed to see the " Othello "...

...the stage. Our women are defective, and so siz'd, You'd think they were some of the guard disguis'd ; For, to speak truth, men act. that are between Forty...and fifty, wenches of fifteen ; With bone so large, an, I nerve so incompliant. When you call Dcxdemonn, enter Giant." Not all the female characters were...

...complained of having some "squeaking" mimic "boy" his greatness. Jordan in 1662 complained thus: " For to speak truth, men act, that are between Forty...incompliant, When you call Desdemona — enter Giant." Yet they were wont to call French actresses " monsters " and pippin -pelt them from the theatre, and...

...poet, wrote a prologue to notify the new procedure, and referred to the absurdity of the old custom : For to speak truth, men act, that are between Forty...wenches of fifteen, With bone so large and nerve so uncompliant, When you call DESDEMONA, enter GIANT. serious qualifications. Garrick had no scruple in...

...poet, wrote a prologue to notify the new procedure, and referred to the absurdity of the old custom : For to speak truth, men act, that are between Forty...wenches of fifteen, With bone so large and nerve so uncompliant, When you call DESDEMONA, enter GIANT. The actress on the occasion is said to have been...

...poet, wrote a prologue to notify the new procedure, and referred to the absurdity of the old custom : For to speak truth, men act, that are between Forty...wenches of fifteen, With bone so large and nerve so uncompliant, When you call DESDEMONA, enter GIANT. The actress on the occasion is said to have been...

...poet, wrote a prologue to notify the new procedure, and referred to the absurdity of the old custom : For to speak truth, men act, that are between Forty and fifty, wenches of fifteen, With hone so large and nerve so uncompliant, When you call DESDEMONA, enter GIANT. The actress on the occasion...

...boy. This frequently gave rise to the most absurd situations. Thus Jordan, writing in 1662, says : For to speak truth, men act, that are between Forty and fifty, wenches of f1fteen ; With bone so large, and nerve so incompliant, When you call Desdemona— enter Giant ! According...