Crossword-Solution: HISTRIO 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

For example, in _The Poetaster_, Histrio, the actor, is advised to ingratiate himself with _Pantalabus_, “gent’man parcel-poet, his father was a man of worship, I tell thee.” This is perhaps unmistakably a blow at Shakespeare, who had recently acquired for his father and himself arms, and the pleasure of writing himself “gentleman.” This “parcel-poet gent’man” “pens lofty, in a new stalking style,”—he is thus an author, he “pens,” and in a high style.

The Etruscans, on the contrary, who in many respects resembled the Egyptians, had theatrical representations; and what is singular enough, the Etruscan name for an actor _histrio_, is preserved in living languages even to the present day.

Certes, some man who understood the stage must have put the incidents together, and then left it to each illiterate histrio to find the words, --words, my dear confreres, signify so little in an acting play.

Certes, some man who understood the stage must have put the incidents together, and then left it to each illiterate histrio to find the words,--words, my dear confreres, signify so little in an acting play.

Whatever the cause, Lessing early in 1767 accepts the position of Theatrical Manager at Hamburg, as usual not too much vexed with disappointment, but quoting gayly "Quod non dant proceres, dabit histrio." Like Burns, he was always "contented wi' little and canty wi' mair." In connection with his place as Manager he was to write a series of dramatic essays and criticisms.