Why, therefore, are these living personages on the stage more condemned than these mute comedians on canvas?
So soon as the author began to write words for the actors to deliver, so soon, be sure, did the comedians begin to interpolate speech of their own contriving.
It will be observed that the character thus described more nearly resembles the modern clown than the modern harlequin, and the early harlequins of the English stage were therefore naturally played by the low comedians of the time.
In "Antony and Cleopatra" occurs the passage: The quick comedians Extemporally will stage us and present Our Alexandrian revels.
From this it would almost seem that these comedians owed their fame and advancement to their skill and inventiveness in the matter of gagging.
There were also troupes of French comedians and minstrels who performed at Court from time to time.
The English dramatist insinuates that the comedians let in their own countrymen free of charge that they might lead the applause, and give the cue to the ladies.
Through his kindly interest and guidance I was enabled to secure my first real engagement and make the acquaintance of the best Shakespearean clown of modern times and one of the cleverest of modern comedians as well, Stuart Robson.
Many comedians either make you laugh or frighten you to death.
My two light comedians were so light I am sure they could have walked on water!
Forrest and Macready never looked more like Roman senators than those two comedians as they acknowledged the plaudits with true tragic dignity.
There are a few comedians of to-day who know the art.
It need hardly be said that the apparition of these two extraordinary figures created a sensation among the jaded Comedians and their friends.
The Comedians were a time-honoured institution at Grandcourt.
After You was far too ambitious a flight for the Comedians at Railsford's; they had far better have stuck to King Lear.
Although the Grandcourt House Comedians were an old institution, they had not always been equally flourishing.
In April 1595 the English agent in Edinburgh wrote to Burghley, how ill King James took it that the comedians in London should scorn the king and people of Scotland in their plays.
Now and again the comedians had lapses of language and the Americans were forced to let jokes go zipping by without response.
Twenty-six months of imprisonment would work wonders with ever so many comedians back home.
He is perfectly acquainted with the manners ofcomedians and courtiers,--of students and pretty women.
And the French comedians were all unmoved, and hastened not to throw themselves at the feet of Le Sage, to pray, to supplicate him to take under his all-powerful protection that theatre elevated by the genius and by the toils of Molière!
But these senseless comedians were unable to foresee anything.
One of the liveliest guests was Sir Francis Burnand--who entirely contradicted the theory that professional comedians are always the most gloomy of men in company.
I didn't understand many of the jokes which the American comedians made that night, but I liked their dry, cool way of making them.
The comedians wore a leathern apron with a large false organ of red leather on the outside.
In the sixteenth century Italian comediansbegan to play at Paris in Italian.
It became a sign of the trade of boxers, athletes, gymnasts, and comedians to bind the organ and tie it up, whereby it was twisted into a horn shape.
Raucourt, Talma, Rachel, Sarah Bernhardt, not to name many excellent comedians who in the present day are almost as well known in London as in Paris.
At the same time the French comedians were authorised, in lieu of previous arrangements, to deduct the full expenses of the theatre before paying anything to the authors.
The French comedians were ready to do anything in order to keep their monopoly.
Since I cannot have the comedians come to my own house, I will have the liberty to come in my plain deshabille, enjoy my arm-chair, receive the homage of my humble suitors, and leave the place before I am tired.
The pair of tragic comedians of whom there will be question pass under this word as under their banner and motto.
It is true, he is called a philosopher, or a lover of wisdom; but he was only so by name; and no more in reality than the comedians of these times are true Christians.
Not so; I am writing not about comedians in general, but about Newgag.
He's my new side partner," she said, looking at the boy, who was not in the least abashed at the bold gaze of the negligently dressed soubrettes and the chaffing comedians who sat at the tables.
The most wealthy of the Italian comedians in Paris was Pantaloon, the father of Coraline and Camille, and a well-known usurer.
The Italian comedians obtained at that time permission to perform parodies of operas and of tragedies.
He was also of opinion that the cheapest troupe of comedians was the best, and that the music required at the performances could be entrusted to the regimental bands.
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.
Comedians came to offer themselves; but I was in no humour for them.
Beauteville, that he should request admission to the city for a company of comedians to amuse himself and his suite.
The comedians were introduced; a theatre was arranged for them; and Voltaire could chuckle again.
The first step of the French mediator was generally, as we shall see, to demand that a theatre should be opened and a company of comedians installed in it for his diversion.
Certain it is that no people have produced more first-rate humourists and more first-rate comedians than the English.
He had been five months at San Carlino when he married Teresa Pinotti, daughter of an actor engaged at the theatre, and one of the greatest comedians of Italy.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "comedians" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
