Shakspere and His PredecessorsJohn Murray, 1896 - 555 páginas |
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... queen on the Judgement Day is found appealing to knight or baron to wrest the law on her behalf . Thus Shakspere , when he placed his Roman and Celtic characters amidst the conditions of his own time , was perpetuating a distinctive ...
... queen on the Judgement Day is found appealing to knight or baron to wrest the law on her behalf . Thus Shakspere , when he placed his Roman and Celtic characters amidst the conditions of his own time , was perpetuating a distinctive ...
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... Queen another work in the Senecan style , The Misfortunes of Arthur . The body of the play is from the hand of Thomas Hughes , but various members of the Inn contributed . The story , as in the case of Gorboduc , is drawn from the ...
... Queen another work in the Senecan style , The Misfortunes of Arthur . The body of the play is from the hand of Thomas Hughes , but various members of the Inn contributed . The story , as in the case of Gorboduc , is drawn from the ...
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... Queen , and from the minutes of the Revels we can gather a list of their names . Between 1568 and 1580 fifty - two of these dramas were performed at Court1 , dealing with every variety of subject— classical history , Italian fable ...
... Queen , and from the minutes of the Revels we can gather a list of their names . Between 1568 and 1580 fifty - two of these dramas were performed at Court1 , dealing with every variety of subject— classical history , Italian fable ...
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... queen's strong govern- ment had produced , broadly speaking , order and unity in Church and State . The mass of the people were thoroughly well affected to the throne and to its policy ; Roman Catholics on the one hand , and Puritan ...
... queen's strong govern- ment had produced , broadly speaking , order and unity in Church and State . The mass of the people were thoroughly well affected to the throne and to its policy ; Roman Catholics on the one hand , and Puritan ...
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... Queen : she became the incarnation of England , an ideal and romantic figure , a fount of inspiring energy . Such she remains to all time as the Gloriana of The Faerie Queene . It was natural that this growing national spirit should ...
... Queen : she became the incarnation of England , an ideal and romantic figure , a fount of inspiring energy . Such she remains to all time as the Gloriana of The Faerie Queene . It was natural that this growing national spirit should ...
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Antony appears Ben Jonson Benedick blood Brutus Caesar Cassius character classical Cleopatra comedy Coriolanus court crown daughter death declares dialogue drama dramatist Duke earlier Elizabethan English episode Euphuism evidence eyes Falstaff father Faustus favour feeling figure fortunes genius gives Hamlet hand hath heart Henry Henry VI hero honour humour husband Iago Imogen incidents instinct John Juliet king lady Lear lips Lord Love's Labour's Love's Labour's Lost lover Macbeth Marlowe Marlowe's mediaeval Merchant of Venice merely Midsummer Night's Dream mistress moral murder nature night noble Othello passion play plot poet Posthumus Prince quarto Queen revenge rhyme Richard Richard III rival Roman Romeo scene Shak Shakspere Shakspere's shows Shylock Sonnets soul speech spirit stage story Stratford sword takes tale Tamburlaine thee theme thou Timon tragedy tragic Troilus Troilus and Cressida true turn verse wife woman words written youth
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Página 471 - Julius bleed for justice' sake? What villain touch'd his body, that did stab, And not for justice? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world, But for supporting robbers; shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes? And sell the mighty space of our large honours...
Página 483 - The crown o' the earth doth melt. My lord ! O, wither'd is the garland of the war, The soldier's pole is fall'n : young boys and girls Are level now with men ; the odds is gone, And there is nothing left remarkable Beneath the visiting moon.
Página 42 - Our souls, whose faculties can comprehend The wondrous architecture of the world, And measure every wandering planet's course, Still climbing after knowledge infinite, And always moving as the restless spheres, Wills us to wear ourselves, and never rest, Until we reach the ripest fruit of all, That perfect bliss and sole felicity, The sweet fruition of an earthly crown.
Página 536 - O, it is monstrous! monstrous! Methought, the billows spoke, and told me of it; The winds did sing it to me; and the thunder, That deep and dreadful organ-pipe, pronounc'd The name of Prosper; it did bass my trespass. Therefore my son i" the ooze is bedded ; and I'll seek him deeper than e'er plummet sounded, And with him there lie mudded.
Página 360 - That, to the observer, doth thy history Fully unfold : Thyself and thy belongings Are not thine own so proper, as to waste Thyself upon thy virtues, they on thee. Heaven doth with us as we with torches do ; Not light them for themselves : for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 't were all alike As if we had them not.
Página 375 - Troilus ! Time, force, and death, Do to this body what extremes you can ; But the strong base and building of my love Is as the very centre of the earth, Drawing all things to it.
Página 431 - His soul is so enfetter'd to her love, That she may make, unmake, do what she list, Even as her appetite shall play the god With his weak function. How am I then a villain To counsel Cassio to this parallel course, Directly to his good? Divinity of hell! When devils will the blackest sins put on, They do suggest at first with heavenly shows...
Página 433 - Ay, there's the point: — as, — to be bold with you, — Not to affect many proposed matches Of her own clime, complexion, and degree, Whereto, we see, in all things nature tends, — Foh! one may smell in such a will most rank, Foul disproportion, thoughts unnatural...
Página 214 - Swift as a shadow, short as any dream ; Brief as the lightning in the collied night, That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth. And ere a man hath power to say, — Behold ! The jaws of darkness do devour it up : So quick bright things come to confusion.
Página 286 - Now entertain conjecture of a time When creeping murmur and the poring dark Fills the wide vessel of the universe. From camp to camp through the foul womb of night The hum of either army stilly sounds, That the fixed sentinels almost receive The secret whispers of each other's watch...