Shakspere's Predecessors in the English DramaSmith, Elder & Company, 1909 - 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 , in ...
... 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 , in ...
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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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