Only the subject of the piece and the number of scenes needed to be given; the actors improvised the dialogue.
Some of the actors appear as bears, while others wear masks, the parts of which are moved by strings.
Oh no, it was not for the actorsthat they were sorry.
They go at last; and then they are more like play-actors than anything else--like such a one as you may see taking the part of Cecrops or Sisyphus or Telephus.
The actors in this outrage were excommunicated, and the chancellor was summoned to a council called by John under the forms of a great council.
Naturally, too, I was brought into contact, very often into quite intimate personal contact, with some of the greatestactors of the day.
When actors begin to think, it is time for a change.
Moreover, as happens in our own day, the public was more occupied with the costumes that the actors wore than with the roles that they were enacting; and, in truth, they were right.
But the usher's brutal monologue came to an end; every one had arrived, and Gringoire breathed freely once more; the actorscontinued bravely.
In London he hung about the green-rooms, and was a well-known figure wherever actors or actresses were collected.
It is, in fact, a remarkable tribute to Adrienne that in her thirteenth year she excited so much jealousy among the actors of the Comedie that they evoked the law against her.
She was a true Bohemian, a happy-go-lucky type of the actors of her time.
The courtyard was crowded by gentlemen and ladies, by people of distinction from the court, and at last even by actors and actresses from the Comedie Franchise.
Lecouvreur elevated the social rank of actors and of actresses.
He was, in his way, no mean critic ofactors and actresses.
The principal actors in this affair were John Brown, Captain Abraham Whipple, John B.
It is my intention to give in notes, in the course of the work, brief biographical sketches of all the most important actors in our Revolutionary war, both domestic and foreign.
As is commonly the fact, the immediate actors in these scenes were the dregs of the population.
But it is a mistake to infer, because Shakespeare's name stands first in the list of actors and the elder Kno'well first in the dramatis personae, that Shakespeare took that particular part.
The evidence of this is contained in the list of actors prefixed to the comedy in the folio of Jonson's works, 1616.
Another of these precocious little actors was Salathiel Pavy, who died before he was thirteen, already famed for taking the parts of old men.
The romance of feeling, the inexpressible charm, belonging to that brilliant little period, none know but the actors themselves.
None but those who have mixed amongstactors of talent, and know them intimately, can have an idea of the charm of their society.
The most common places of performance were the yards of the Chaucer-like hostels, in the various towns through which the actors wandered.
They were indeed actors all, but their vocation was over for the time amidst the excitement of the coming war.
Early as was the hour, the business of the morning had commenced, and many of the actors engaged in rehearsing a new play.
The bestactors in the world, either for scene individable, or poem unlimited.
In other respects, except those related, the mode of transacting the trade, and the real actors therein, remained very much as they were.
Many actors who now slumber in their graves are called up to bear witness.
John Garland, who had been chief actors in the matter, did so.
In him terminated the life of one of the most zealous actors in the drama of the American Revolution, in which he was at various times a soldier and an officer, a citizen and a civil magistrate.
Arbuthnot, and the prince of classical collectors, Richard Mead, mix with the ordinary actors of the scene.
The boy remained in the hut, confronting the trilithon as if he expected yet more actorson the scene, but nobody else appeared.
The enrolment of actors in either army occurred at an earlier period, and one Hart was certainly among them.
The headpieces, intended to form a supplement to the full-page illustrations, include portraits of persons whose importance scarcely justified their place among the larger pictures, drawings of theatres, and of actors in character.
The authorities would seem to have winked at these private representations, or to have declined noticing them until after the expiration of the period within which the actors were exposed to punishment.
When she offered the first to the players--it was her ninth play--the actors unanimously denounced it.
The actors might reasonably have argued that "Hamlet" in Scotland Yard or at Holland House was a more worthy entertainment than such grown-up follies in the gallery at Whitehall.
Four hundred and fifty pounds clear profit were shared by the managers, who gave the actors double pay, and sent a contribution of fifty pounds towards the repairs of St. Mary's Church.
The actors could not comprehend why their office was suppressed, while the bear-baiters were putting money in both pockets, and non-edifying puppet-shows were enriching their proprietors.
The embarrassed company of comedians were not allowed to resume their calling for two or three days, and thus serious injury was inflicted on such actors as were paid only on the days of performance.
Among the nobleactors who rode down to the palace was Rich, Earl of Holland.
The writers were the intimate friends of emperors; the actors were infamous.
Your actors play their parts with skill, but the public is frigid.
I used to know all sorts of fellows, actors and fellows like that, and they're all away somewhere.
The various actors in the drama were now engaged in sorting themselves out from the ruins.
After the Intriguing Chambermaid and the revived Author's Farce, Fielding seems to have made farther exertions for "the distressed Actorsin Drury Lane.
The virtual patentees at this time were the actors Colley Cibber, Robert Wilks, and Barton Booth.
Whilst on the subject of the stage, I should be glad if any of your correspondents could inform me what has become of "Dick Leveridge's History of the Stage and Actors in his own Time?
My friend the real detective tells me that Purdy is one of the best actors he has ever seen, and that his skill would beat the devil himself.
Although Mr. Willard's position in the first rank of actors could not have been long delayed, his sudden leap to the front was almost the result of a fortunate accident.
A Nisi Prius cause is a new drama, brought before the jury as the audience; but with this great difference between a play and a cause—the actors in it, on one side only, are interested in its success.
But I have followed the report of Fray Naharro, who collected his information from the actors in the tragedy, and whose minuter statement is corroborated by the more general testimony of both the Pizarros and the secretary Xerez.
But it is not till Gasca's time that we find his name enrolled among the actors in the busy scenes of civil strife, when he accompanied the president in his campaign against Gonzalo Pizarro.
One could have wished to find them specified by some of the actors in the tragedy.
Nor were the subordinate actors in the expedition forgotten.
The actors and the public appeared to have changed sides -- the audience acted, and the actors listened.
The actors had by far the best time of it; for they were spared nearly all the labour of their parts, and merely strutted on the stage to see how matters went on, and then strutted off again.
Most of the favourite actorswere called before the curtain to make their bow, and receive the acclamations of the pit.
From the historical texts of Ashurbânipal’s reign we know the names of many of the actors in that great struggle.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "actors" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
