Shakspere's Predecessors in the English DramaSmith, Elder & Company, 1900 - 551 Seiten "A critical inquiry into the condition of the English drama" -- Preface. |
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... MASQUES AT COURT I. Definition of the Masque - its Courtly Character - Its Partial Influence over the Regular Drama . - II . Its Italian Origin.— III . Masques at Rome in 1474 - At Ferrara in 1502 - Morris Dances - At Urbino in 1513 ...
... MASQUES AT COURT I. Definition of the Masque - its Courtly Character - Its Partial Influence over the Regular Drama . - II . Its Italian Origin.— III . Masques at Rome in 1474 - At Ferrara in 1502 - Morris Dances - At Urbino in 1513 ...
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... Masque , Domestic Tragedy , Melodrama - had achieved its triumph over the Classical Drama of the scholars . Rhyme had been discarded , and blank verse adopted as the proper vehicle of dramatic expression . Shakspere's greatness ...
... Masque , Domestic Tragedy , Melodrama - had achieved its triumph over the Classical Drama of the scholars . Rhyme had been discarded , and blank verse adopted as the proper vehicle of dramatic expression . Shakspere's greatness ...
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... Masque of Lunatics are fantastic appeals to the vulgar apprehension , rather than scientific studies . But the interspaces between sanity and frenzy , the vacillations of the mind upon a brink of horror , the yieldings of the reason to ...
... Masque of Lunatics are fantastic appeals to the vulgar apprehension , rather than scientific studies . But the interspaces between sanity and frenzy , the vacillations of the mind upon a brink of horror , the yieldings of the reason to ...
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... Masque at Court to the legitimate Drama . It would not serve a useful purpose to pursue this analysis further . It is enough to indicate how large a part Imagination and Romantic Fancy played in English comic art . What is now known as ...
... Masque at Court to the legitimate Drama . It would not serve a useful purpose to pursue this analysis further . It is enough to indicate how large a part Imagination and Romantic Fancy played in English comic art . What is now known as ...
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... Masques and learned shows . Long after the publica- tion of Shakspere's plays in 1637 , Thomas Nabbes brought out a Moral Masque ' styled ' Microcosmus , ' in which Phys- ander , or the natural man , is married to Bellanima , and ...
... Masques and learned shows . Long after the publica- tion of Shakspere's plays in 1637 , Thomas Nabbes brought out a Moral Masque ' styled ' Microcosmus , ' in which Phys- ander , or the natural man , is married to Bellanima , and ...
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Seite 42 - Why this is hell, nor am I out of it : Think'st thou that I who saw the face of God, And tasted the eternal joys of Heaven, Am not tormented with ten thousand hells, In being deprived of everlasting bliss ? O Faustus!
Seite 345 - I have heard That guilty creatures sitting at a play Have by the very cunning of the scene Been struck so to the soul that presently They have proclaimed their malefactions ; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.
Seite 411 - Full little knowest thou that hast not tried What hell it is in suing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better spent, To waste long nights in pensive discontent, To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow, To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow, To have thy prince's grace yet want her Peers...
Seite 492 - O, thou art fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars...
Seite 67 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam...
Seite 474 - THE measure is English heroic verse without rime, as that of Homer in Greek, and of Virgil in Latin — rime being no necessary adjunct or true ornament of poem or good verse, in longer works especially, but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame metre...
Seite 255 - But He, her fears to cease, Sent down the meek-eyed Peace ; She, crowned with olive green, came softly sliding Down through the turning sphere His ready harbinger, With turtle wing the amorous clouds dividing; And waving wide her myrtle wand, She strikes a universal peace through sea and land.
Seite 215 - ... as well for the recreation of our loving subjects as for our solace and pleasure when we shall think good to see them, during our pleasure.
Seite 308 - How would it have joyed brave Talbot, the terror of the French, to think that after he had lain two hundred years in his tomb, he should triumph again on the stage and have his bones new embalmed with the tears of ten thousand spectators at least (at several times), who, in the tragedian that represents his person, imagine they behold him fresh bleeding...
Seite 38 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod...