Shakespeare as a Dramatic Artist: With an Account of His Reputation at Various PeriodsC. Scribner's Sons, 1901 - 449 páginas |
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... according to the opinions or prejudices of individuals . In general the rule means that the places in which the scenes are laid shall not be so remote from each other that the charac- ters cannot be supposed to pass from one to the ...
... according to the opinions or prejudices of individuals . In general the rule means that the places in which the scenes are laid shall not be so remote from each other that the charac- ters cannot be supposed to pass from one to the ...
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... according to ancient rule and best example , within the space of twenty - four hours . " Not but that after the Restoration there were plenty of dissenters in practice , and a few in theory . To the former state of things both previous ...
... according to ancient rule and best example , within the space of twenty - four hours . " Not but that after the Restoration there were plenty of dissenters in practice , and a few in theory . To the former state of things both previous ...
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... according to the strictest of dramatic laws ; but that is a commendation which many of our poets now despise , and a beauty which our common audiences do not easily discern . " This feeling about the necessity of observing the unities ...
... according to the strictest of dramatic laws ; but that is a commendation which many of our poets now despise , and a beauty which our common audiences do not easily discern . " This feeling about the necessity of observing the unities ...
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... according to the rules will , other things being equal , always please more than he who transgresses them.1 Dennis proved his faith by his works . The remarks with which he introduced his plays are interesting for the revelation they ...
... according to the rules will , other things being equal , always please more than he who transgresses them.1 Dennis proved his faith by his works . The remarks with which he introduced his plays are interesting for the revelation they ...
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... according to their view this was no justi- fication . It was his business to be disturbed . If he failed to be , his conduct was reprehensible . To the existence of fictitious states of mind like this the be- lievers in the unities ...
... according to their view this was no justi- fication . It was his business to be disturbed . If he failed to be , his conduct was reprehensible . To the existence of fictitious states of mind like this the be- lievers in the unities ...
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Página 308 - In sooth, I know not why I am so sad : It wearies me ; you say it wearies you ; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn ; And such a want-wit sadness makes of me. That I have much ado to know myself.
Página 299 - It was the lark, the herald of the morn, No nightingale ; look, love, what envious streaks Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east. Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day Stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops; I must be gone and live, or stay and die.
Página 108 - THE stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies, and now and then of tragedies ; but in life it doth much mischief — sometimes like a siren, sometimes like a fury.
Página 47 - The truth is, that the spectators are always in their senses, and know, from the first act to the last, that the stage is only a stage, and that the players are only players.
Página 141 - But besides these gross absurdities, how all their plays be neither right tragedies, nor right comedies, mingling kings and clowns, not because the matter so carrieth it, but thrust in clowns by head and shoulders, to play a part in majestical matters, with neither decency nor discretion, so as neither the admiration and commiseration, nor the right sportfulness, is by their mongrel tragi-comedy obtained.
Página 243 - Their plays are now the most pleasant and frequent entertainments of the stage ; two of theirs being acted through the year for one of Shakespeare's or Jonson's...
Página 23 - First, if it be objected, that what I publish is no true poem, in the strict laws of time, I confess it : as also in the want of a proper chorus ; whose habit and moods are such and so difficult, as not any, whom I have seen, since the ancients, no, not they who have most presently affected laws, have yet come in the way of.
Página 20 - As he dare serve th' ill customs of the age, Or purchase your delight at such a rate, As for it he himself must justly hate; — To make a child, now swaddled, to proceed Man, and then shoot up, in one beard and...
Página 397 - Some Reflections on Mr Rymer's Short View of Tragedy, and an Attempt at a Vindication of Shakespear, in an Essay directed to John Dryden, Esq.