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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... written in the morning of the art anticipating its late afternoon . The rapidity with which the changes in our drama were accomplished introduces some confusion . We are sometimes at a loss whether to maintain the chronological or the ...
... written in the morning of the art anticipating its late afternoon . The rapidity with which the changes in our drama were accomplished introduces some confusion . We are sometimes at a loss whether to maintain the chronological or the ...
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... written to be acted , we have novels written to be read . These are produced in such profusion , with such spontaneous and untutored licence , so various in quality and yet upon the whole so excellent , that the Victorian period ...
... written to be acted , we have novels written to be read . These are produced in such profusion , with such spontaneous and untutored licence , so various in quality and yet upon the whole so excellent , that the Victorian period ...
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... written to exemplify a leading moral quality . Nor again , with the single exception of the ' Merry Wives of Windsor , ' did he give the world a Comedy of Manners in the strict sense of that phrase . Where Shakspere ruled supreme was ...
... written to exemplify a leading moral quality . Nor again , with the single exception of the ' Merry Wives of Windsor , ' did he give the world a Comedy of Manners in the strict sense of that phrase . Where Shakspere ruled supreme was ...
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... written , depended on the actors , who were trained more strictly to their business then than now . The old custom of maintain- ing jesters in castles and at Court bred a class of men whose profession it was to entertain an audience ...
... written , depended on the actors , who were trained more strictly to their business then than now . The old custom of maintain- ing jesters in castles and at Court bred a class of men whose profession it was to entertain an audience ...
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... writing . It encouraged the playwrights to penetrate the deepest and the subtlest labyrinths of passion , and forced them to express themselves through language , for want of any other medium . But it also impressed a certain homeli ...
... writing . It encouraged the playwrights to penetrate the deepest and the subtlest labyrinths of passion , and forced them to express themselves through language , for want of any other medium . But it also impressed a certain homeli ...
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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...