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... of regular tragedy and comedy. Both moral-plays, however, and even the more
ancient miracle-plays, continued to be occasionally performed down to the very
end of the sixteenth century. One of the last dramatic representations at which ...
... of regular tragedy and comedy. Both moral-plays, however, and even the more
ancient miracle-plays, continued to be occasionally performed down to the very
end of the sixteenth century. One of the last dramatic representations at which ...
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Mr. Collier appears to consider the interludes of John Heywood, the earliest of
which must have been written before 1521, as first exhibiting the moral-play in a
state of transition to the regular tragedy and comedy. “John Heywood's dramatic ...
Mr. Collier appears to consider the interludes of John Heywood, the earliest of
which must have been written before 1521, as first exhibiting the moral-play in a
state of transition to the regular tragedy and comedy. “John Heywood's dramatic ...
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Here, then, we have a dramatic fable, or incident at least, conducted not by
allegorical personifications, but by characters of real life, which is the essential
difference that distinguishes the true tragedy or comedy from the mere moral.
Here, then, we have a dramatic fable, or incident at least, conducted not by
allegorical personifications, but by characters of real life, which is the essential
difference that distinguishes the true tragedy or comedy from the mere moral.
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The author himself, however, in his prologue, announces it as a “Comedy, or
Interlude,” and as an imitation of the classical models of Plautus and Terence.
And, in truth, both in character and in plot, Ralph Roister Doister has every right
to be ...
The author himself, however, in his prologue, announces it as a “Comedy, or
Interlude,” and as an imitation of the classical models of Plautus and Terence.
And, in truth, both in character and in plot, Ralph Roister Doister has every right
to be ...
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... a very superior production to Gammer Gurton's Needle, which, before the
discovery of Udall's piece, had the credit of being the first regular English comedy
. At the same time it must be admitted that the superior antiquity assigned to
Ralph ...
... a very superior production to Gammer Gurton's Needle, which, before the
discovery of Udall's piece, had the credit of being the first regular English comedy
. At the same time it must be admitted that the superior antiquity assigned to
Ralph ...
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Página 118 - Had we but world enough, and time, This coyness, lady, were no crime. We would sit down and think which way To walk, and pass our long love's day; Thou by the Indian Ganges' side Shouldst rubies find; I by the tide Of Humber would complain. I would Love you ten years before the Flood; And you should, if you please, refuse Till the conversion of the Jews.
Página 28 - Our hearts with loyal flames ; When thirsty grief in wine we steep, When healths and draughts go free, Fishes that tipple in the deep Know no such liberty.
Página 101 - All in a moment through the gloom were seen Ten thousand banners rise into the air With orient colours waving...
Página 105 - I am now indebted, as being a work not to be raised from the heat of youth or the vapours of wine, like that which flows at waste from the pen of some vulgar amorist or the trencher fury of a rhyming parasite...
Página 118 - But at my back I always hear Time's winged chariot hurrying near, And yonder all before us lie Deserts of vast eternity.
Página 56 - With a refined traveller of Spain; A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain : One, whom the music of his own vain tongue Doth ravish, like enchanting harmony...
Página 114 - Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new.
Página 77 - Jonson, which two I behold like a Spanish great galleon, and an English man-of-war ; Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances. Shakespeare...
Página 49 - Cut is the branch that might have grown full straight, And burned is Apollo's laurel bough, That sometime grew within this learned man. Faustus is gone : regard his hellish fall, Whose fiendful fortune may exhort the wise Only to wonder at unlawful things, Whose deepness doth entice such forward wits To practise more than heavenly power permits.
Página 120 - Gather the flowers, but spare the buds; Lest Flora, angry at thy crime, To kill her infants in their prime, Do quickly make th' example yours; And, ere we see, Nip in the blossom all our hopes and thee.
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| Título | Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England ...: With Specimens of the Principal Writers, Volumes 3-4 Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England ...: With Specimens of the Principal Writers, George Lillie Craik |
| Autor | George Lillie Craik |
| Editora | C. Knight & Company, 1845 |
| Original de | Universidade da Califórnia |
| Digitalizado | 28 Nov 2007 |
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