The Works of John Dryden, Volume XIII: Plays: All for Love, Oedipus, Troilus and CressidaUniversity of California Press, 24.01.1985 - 672 Seiten Volume XIII contains three of Dryden's Plays, along with accompanying scholarly appartus: All for Love, Oedipus, and Troilus and Cressida. |
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... true , that vaster and more frequent Taxes might be gather'd , when the consent of the People was not ask'd or needed , but this were only by Conquering abroad to be poor at home : And the Examples of our Neighbours teach us , that they ...
... true , that vaster and more frequent Taxes might be gather'd , when the consent of the People was not ask'd or needed , but this were only by Conquering abroad to be poor at home : And the Examples of our Neighbours teach us , that they ...
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... true Englishman , he must at the same time be fir'd with Indignation , and revenge himself as he can on the Disturbers of his Country . And to whom could I more fitly apply my self , than to your Lordship , who have not only an inborn ...
... true Englishman , he must at the same time be fir'd with Indignation , and revenge himself as he can on the Disturbers of his Country . And to whom could I more fitly apply my self , than to your Lordship , who have not only an inborn ...
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... true , some actions , though natural , are not fit to be represented ; and broad obscen- ities in words , ought in good manners to be avoided : expressions therefore are a modest cloathing of our thoughts , as Breeches and 30 Petticoats ...
... true , some actions , though natural , are not fit to be represented ; and broad obscen- ities in words , ought in good manners to be avoided : expressions therefore are a modest cloathing of our thoughts , as Breeches and 30 Petticoats ...
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... true , they proclaim'd themselves Poets by sound of Trumpet ; and Poets they were upon pain of death to any man who durst call them otherwise . The Audience had a fine time on't , you may imagine ; they sate in a bodily fear , and look ...
... true , they proclaim'd themselves Poets by sound of Trumpet ; and Poets they were upon pain of death to any man who durst call them otherwise . The Audience had a fine time on't , you may imagine ; they sate in a bodily fear , and look ...
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... true . Alex . A foolish Dream , Bred from the fumes of indigested Feasts , And holy Luxury . Serap . I know my duty : " Tis not fit it should . 40 This goes no farther . Alex . Nor would the times now bear it , were it true . All ...
... true . Alex . A foolish Dream , Bred from the fumes of indigested Feasts , And holy Luxury . Serap . I know my duty : " Tis not fit it should . 40 This goes no farther . Alex . Nor would the times now bear it , were it true . All ...
Inhalt
Oedipus | 113 |
Troilus and Cressida | 217 |
Commentary | 357 |
Textual Notes | 567 |
Appendixes | 625 |
Index to the Commentary | 637 |
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Achilles Adrastus Æge Ægeon Æneas Agamemnon Ajax Alex Alexas Antony and Cleopatra Antony's Cæsar Calchas character Charmion Clark Cleo Cleop copies Corneille corrected form cou'd Creon Cressi criticism Danby death Diom Diomede Dolla Dollabella Dryden English Eurydice ev'n eyes Fate fear fool French Ghost Gods Grecian Greek Hæmon hast heart Heav'n Hect Hector Helen honour I'le Iras Jocasta John Dryden King Laius Lajus Loeb trans Lord Menelaus Nestor Octavia Oedipus Pand Pandarus passion Patroclus Phorbas plague play plot Plutarch Poem Poet Poetry pow'r preface Prince Queen Roman Rymer s.d. Enter s.d. Exeunt s.d. Exit scene Seneca set as verse Shakespeare shou'd Sophocles Soul speak speech Sword Theban Thebes thee Thers Thersites thou thought Tiresias tragedy Troilus and Cressida Trojan Troy Ulysses uncorrected Ventidius words wou'd
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Seite 251 - And thus still doing, thus he pass'd along. Duch. Alas ! poor Richard ! where rides he the while ? York. As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious : Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes Did scowl on Richard ; no man cried, God save him...
Seite 411 - A' made a finer end and went away an it had been any christom child; a' parted even just between twelve and one, even at the turning o' the tide: for after I saw him fumble with the sheets and play with flowers and smile upon his fingers...
Seite 437 - Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well; Of one not easily jealous, but, being wrought, Perplex'd in the extreme; of one whose hand, Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away Richer than all his tribe...
Seite 23 - Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive below.
Seite 78 - Men are but children of a larger growth; Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain ; And yet the soul, shut up in her dark room, Viewing so clear abroad, at home sees nothing; But, like a mole in earth, busy and blind, Works all her folly up, and casts it outward To the world's open view...
Seite 471 - For, if the action be but one, and that plain, without any counterturn of design or episode, ie, underplot, how can it be so pleasing as the English, which have both underplot and a turned design, which keeps the audience in expectation of the catastrophe? whereas in the Greek poets we see through the whole design at first.
Seite 99 - Caesar's fleet. Now death or conquest! If the first happen, fate acquits my promise; If we o'ercome, the conqueror is yours. [A distant shout within.