A Study of the Modern Drama: A Handbook for the Study and Appreciation of the Best Plays, European, English, and American, of the Last Half CenturyD. Appleton & Company, 1928 - 535 páginas |
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Palavras e frases frequentes
action actors Arthur Arthur Symons artist Ashley Dukes audience B. H. Clark Bernard Shaw Boston Brander Matthews characters Chicago Chief Contemporary Dramatists Clayton Hamilton Cohan comedy Contemporary Drama Contemporary Dramatists Boston Contemporary One-Act Plays conventional critic dialogue Dickinson's Chief Contemporary Drama Cincinnati Dramas Boston dramatist Dublin English Drama N. Y. Essays exposition F. W. Chandler French Galsworthy George Henry Arthur Jones Ibsen ideas includes interesting Isaac Goldberg John Jones Lady Gregory last act Liliom London Love Ludwig Lewisohn Maeterlinck Mary Maurice Maeterlinck Modern Drama N. Y. Molière Moses N. Y. no date novel Oscar Wilde Pinero Plays Boston Plays for Stage Plays London plot Poet Lore preface Representative One-Act Plays Reprints in Collections says scene second act Stage and Study Stage N. Y. story Texts Theater N. Y. theme third act tion To-day tragedy trans translation W. B. Yeats William Archer Woman words writing written Yeats
Passagens conhecidas
Página 131 - Tragedy, then, is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude; in language embellished with each kind of artistic ornament, the several kinds being found in separate parts of the play; in the form of action, not of narrative ; through pity and fear effecting the proper purgation of these emotions.
Página 242 - I took the drama, the most objective form known to art, and made it as personal a mode of expression as the lyric or the sonnet; at the same time I widened its range and enriched its characterisation.
Página 275 - A drama must be shaped so as to have a spire of meaning. Every grouping of life and character has its inherent moral; and the business of the dramatist is so to pose the group as to bring that moral poignantly to the light of day.
Página 342 - I think, is of importance, for in countries where the imagination of the people, and the language they use, is rich and living, it is possible for a writer to be rich and copious in his words, and at the same time to give the reality, which is the root of all poetry, in a comprehensive and natural form.
Página 275 - To set before the public no cut-and-dried codes, but the phenomena of life and character, selected and combined, but not distorted, by the dramatist's outlook, set down without fear, favor, or prejudice, leaving the public to draw such poor moral as nature may afford.
Página 341 - And to define the matter roughly, we may say that the proper magnitude is comprised within such limits, that the sequence of events, according to the law of probability or necessity, will admit of a change from bad fortune to good, or from good fortune to bad.
Página 270 - As, therefore, in the other imitative arts, the imitation is one when the object imitated is one, so the plot, being an imitation of an action, must imitate one action and that a whole, the structural union of the parts...
Página 241 - One excellent test of the civilization of a country, as I have said, I take to be the flourishing of the comic idea and comedy; and the test of true comedy is that it shall awaken thoughtful laughter.
Página 390 - His eyes are as a flame of fire, and on his head are many crowns ; and he had a name written that no man knew but he himself.
Página 339 - Comes in and looks round the room. Speaking sadly and quietly. Where is the bit of new rope, Cathleen, was bought in Connemara? CATHLEEN Coming down. Give it to him, Nora; it's on a nail by the white boards. I hung it up this morning, for the pig with the black feet was eating it.