Shakspere's Predecessors in the English Drama, Band 4Smith, Elder & Company, 1884 - 668 Seiten |
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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 pur- pose 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 ...
... Masque at Court to the legitimate Drama . It would not serve a useful pur- pose 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 ...
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... Masques and learned shows . Long after the publication of Shak- spere's plays in 1637 , Thomas Nabbes brought out a ' Moral Masque ' styled ' Microcosmus , ' in.
... Masques and learned shows . Long after the publication of Shak- spere's plays in 1637 , Thomas Nabbes brought out a ' Moral Masque ' styled ' Microcosmus , ' in.
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Seite 57 - tis the soul of peace ; Of all the virtues 'tis nearest kin to heaven ; It makes men look like gods. The best of men That e'er wore earth about him was a sufferer, A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit, The first true gentleman that ever breath'd.
Seite 226 - Thence what the lofty grave tragedians taught In chorus or iambic, teachers best Of moral prudence, with delight received In brief sententious precepts, while they treat Of fate, and chance, and change in human life, High actions, and high passions best describing : Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratic, Shook the arsenal, and fulmined over Greece To Macedon and Artaxerxes...
Seite 593 - 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 515 - 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 49 - tis too horrible ! The weariest and most loathed worldly life, ^ That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature, is a paradise To what we fear of death.
Seite 319 - 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 615 - Was this the face that launched a thousand ships And burnt the topless towers of Ilium ?— Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. Her lips suck forth my soul : see, where it flies! Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again. Here will I dwell, for heaven is in these lips, And all is dross that is not Helena.
Seite 388 - 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 434 - 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 proclaim'd their malefactions; For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ.
Seite 49 - 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...