Shakespeare and the Modern Stage: With Other EssaysC. Scribner's Sons, 1906 - 251 Seiten |
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... Virtue . Frequency of his Denunciation of Royal " Ceremony " IV . The Duty of Obedience to Authority . 152 • 161 V. The Moral Atmosphere of Shakespearean Drama · 164 ASPECTS OF SHAKESPEARE'S PHILOSOPHY — continued PAGE VI ...
... Virtue . Frequency of his Denunciation of Royal " Ceremony " IV . The Duty of Obedience to Authority . 152 • 161 V. The Moral Atmosphere of Shakespearean Drama · 164 ASPECTS OF SHAKESPEARE'S PHILOSOPHY — continued PAGE VI ...
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... virtue of comparatively inexpensive settings and in alliance with a well - chosen com- pany of efficient actors and actresses , is able at short intervals to produce a succession of Shake- speare's plays , may reasonably expect to ...
... virtue of comparatively inexpensive settings and in alliance with a well - chosen com- pany of efficient actors and actresses , is able at short intervals to produce a succession of Shake- speare's plays , may reasonably expect to ...
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... virtue which these halting chroniclers delivered . In Shakespeare's case their message was not long neglected . In 1709 Nicholas Rowe , after- 1 Such a compilation had been contemplated in 1614 , two years before the dramatist died , by ...
... virtue which these halting chroniclers delivered . In Shakespeare's case their message was not long neglected . In 1709 Nicholas Rowe , after- 1 Such a compilation had been contemplated in 1614 , two years before the dramatist died , by ...
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... virtue of Shakespearean versatility . Mr Ben- son's leading comedian , Mr Weir , whose power of presenting Shakespeare's humorists shows , besides native gifts , the advantages that come of experienced study of the dramatist , not only ...
... virtue of Shakespearean versatility . Mr Ben- son's leading comedian , Mr Weir , whose power of presenting Shakespeare's humorists shows , besides native gifts , the advantages that come of experienced study of the dramatist , not only ...
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... virtue and this moral discipline , Let's be no Stoics , nor no stocks , I pray , Or so devote to Aristotle's checks , As Ovid be an outcast quite adjured . -The Taming of the Shrew , i . 2 , 29–33 . SHAKESPEARE AND ARISTOTLE 145 ...
... virtue and this moral discipline , Let's be no Stoics , nor no stocks , I pray , Or so devote to Aristotle's checks , As Ovid be an outcast quite adjured . -The Taming of the Shrew , i . 2 , 29–33 . SHAKESPEARE AND ARISTOTLE 145 ...
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Seite 160 - In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil ? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text...
Seite 186 - A strange fish! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Seite 169 - There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out...
Seite 20 - O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention ! A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene ! Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, Assume the port of Mars ; and, at his heels, Leash'd in like hounds, should famine, sword, and fire, Crouch for employment.
Seite 46 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Seite 153 - Tis mightiest in the mightiest, it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown. His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings; It is an attribute to God himself, And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.
Seite 46 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Seite 155 - Lear. What, art mad ? A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears : see how yond justice rails upon yond simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: change places; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief?
Seite 45 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.
Seite 7 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve; the censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.