The Development of Shakespeare as a DramatistMacmillan, 1907 - 329 Seiten For contents, see Author Catalog. |
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actors Bassianus bethan Biron central figure character characterization chronicle history chronicle play climax Comedy of Errors comedy of manners comic complicated contrast Court delight Demetrius dialogue dramatist Duke effect emotional emphasis English enter evidence fact Falstaff farce father feeling fifth act fourth act front curtain Gentlemen of Verona give Globe Henry Henslowe Henslowe's Diary Hermia high comedy Hope Theatre human incident interest J. P. Collier Julius Cæsar Lavinia Lear literary London Lord love story Love's Labour's Lost lovers Lyly Macbeth Marlowe material melodrama merely miracle plays mood Moreover original Paul's perfect phrase plot poetic present probably Proteus Richard Richard III romantic Romeo and Juliet scene Shake Shakespeare Shakespeare's plays shows Shylock Silvia situation speare speech story-telling Street sure Tamora technique theatres theatrical thee thou tion Titus Andronicus to-day tragedy tragic upper stage writing
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Seite 202 - tis not to me she speaks: Two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, Having some business, do entreat her eyes To twinkle in their spheres till they return. What if her eyes were there, they in her head? The brightness of her cheek would shame those stars, As daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven Would through the airy region stream so bright That birds would sing and think it were not night.
Seite 78 - Afric of the other, and so many other under-kingdoms, that the player, when he cometh in, must ever begin with telling where he is, or else the tale will not be conceived? Now you shall have three ladies walk to gather flowers, and then we must believe the stage to be a garden. By and by we hear news of shipwreck in the same place, and then we are to blame if we accept it not for a rock.
Seite 105 - From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire ; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world...
Seite 60 - CHILD OF QUEEN ELIZABETH'S CHAPEL*. Weep with me, all you that read This little story ; And know, for whom a tear you shed Death's self is sorry. 'Twas a child that so did thrive In grace and feature, As Heaven and Nature seemed to strive Which owned the creature.
Seite 203 - I'll believe thee. Rom. If my heart's dear love— Jul. Well, do not swear: although I joy in thee, I have no joy of this contract to-night: It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden; Too like the lightning, which doth cease to be Ere one can say 'It lightens.
Seite 248 - A blank, my lord. She never told her love, But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud, Feed on her damask cheek : she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief.
Seite 202 - Do not swear at all ! Or, if thou wilt, swear by thy gracious self, Which is the god of my idolatry, And I'll believe thee ! Rom.
Seite 223 - The words expressly are a pound of flesh : Then take thy bond, take thou thy pound of flesh ; But, in the cutting it, if thou dost shed One drop of Christian blood, thy lands and goods Are, by the laws of Venice, confiscate Unto the state of Venice.
Seite 201 - tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church door ; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve : ask for me to-morrow, and you shall find me a grave man. I am peppered, I warrant, for this world. A plague o...
Seite 202 - O, swear not by the moon, the inconstant moon, That monthly changes in her circled orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable.