A Study of the Drama, Volume 10Houghton Mifflin, 1910 - 320 páginas |
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... dramatic art were planned and elaborated on purpose to be performed by actors , in a theater , and before an audience of the poet's con- temporaries . The great dramas of the mighty masters , without a single exception , were intended ...
... dramatic art were planned and elaborated on purpose to be performed by actors , in a theater , and before an audience of the poet's con- temporaries . The great dramas of the mighty masters , without a single exception , were intended ...
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... drama , this may not surprise us ; but his saying would not be greatly objected to by any true dramatist , poet , or prose- man , for it is only an overstatement of the truth . Me- nander , the master of Greek comedy ... literature you wish ...
... drama , this may not surprise us ; but his saying would not be greatly objected to by any true dramatist , poet , or prose- man , for it is only an overstatement of the truth . Me- nander , the master of Greek comedy ... literature you wish ...
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... drama from the printed page , and he asserted that this was " a knack , the fruit of much knowledge and some im- agination , comparable to that ... dramatic poets . CHAPTER II THE INFLUENCE OF THE ACTOR For ill can THE STUDY OF THE DRAMA 23.
... drama from the printed page , and he asserted that this was " a knack , the fruit of much knowledge and some im- agination , comparable to that ... dramatic poets . CHAPTER II THE INFLUENCE OF THE ACTOR For ill can THE STUDY OF THE DRAMA 23.
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... poets of high distinction who were attracted to the dramatic form , and who sought to express them- selves in it , but without considering the conditions of the stage of their own time , which seemed to them a period of decadence . They ...
... poets of high distinction who were attracted to the dramatic form , and who sought to express them- selves in it , but without considering the conditions of the stage of their own time , which seemed to them a period of decadence . They ...
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... Poet throng . " This attitude may not be unbecoming in the lyric poet , who has but to express his own emotions ; but it is impossible in a true dramatic poet , who feels that what he has wrought is not complete until he has seen it ...
... Poet throng . " This attitude may not be unbecoming in the lyric poet , who has but to express his own emotions ; but it is impossible in a true dramatic poet , who feels that what he has wrought is not complete until he has seen it ...
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Página 272 - 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 152 - Hamlet is a name ; his speeches and sayings but the idle coinage of the poet's brain. What then, are they not real ? They are as real as our own thoughts. Their reality is in the reader's mind. It is <we who are Hamlet.
Página 229 - The highest moral purpose aimed at in the highest species of the drama, is the teaching of the human heart, through its sympathies and antipathies, the knowledge of itself ; in proportion to the possession of which knowledge every human being is wise, just, sincere, tolerant, and kind.
Página 90 - The individual is foolish. The multitude, for the moment, is foolish when they act without deliberation ; but the species is wise, and when time is given to it, as a species, it almost always acts right.
Página 85 - The Poet writes under one restriction only, namely, the necessity of giving immediate pleasure to a human Being possessed of that information which may be expected from him, not as a lawyer, a physician, a mariner, an astronomer, or a natural philosopher, but as a Man.
Página 152 - ... he who has felt his mind sink within him, and sadness cling to his heart like a malady ; who has had his hopes blighted and his youth staggered by the apparitions of strange things ; who cannot be well at ease, while he sees evil hovering near him like a spectre : whose powers of action have been eaten up by thought ; he to whom the universe seems infinite, and himself nothing ; whose bitterness of soul makes him careless of consequences, and who goes to a play, as his best resource to shove...
Página 12 - He was eating an apple, and giving a long, melodious whoop, at intervals, followed by a deeptoned ding-dong-dong, ding-dong-dong, for he was personating a steamboat. As he drew near, he slackened speed, took the middle of the street, leaned far over to starboard and rounded to ponderously and with laborious pomp and circumstance—for he was personating the "Big Missouri," and considered himself to be drawing nine feet of water.
Página 1 - We dispute and wrangle for ever; we endeavour to get men to come to us, when we do not go to them. He therefore who is acquainted with the works which have pleased different ages and different countries, and has formed his opinion on them, has more materials, and more means of knowing what is analogous to the mind of man, than he who is conversant only with the works of his own age or country. What has pleased, and continues to please, is likely to please again : hence are derived the rules of art...
Página 12 - Chow-chchow-chow!" The left hand began to describe circles. "Stop the stabboard! Ting-a-ling-ling! Stop the labboard! Come ahead on the stabboard! Stop her! Let your outside turn over slow! Ting-a-ling-ling! Chow-ow-ow! Get out that headline! LIVELY now! Come— out with your spring-line— what're you about there!
Página 280 - Tragedy endeavours, as far as possible, to confine itself to a single revolution of the sun, or but slightly to exceed this limit ; whereas the Epic action has no limits of time.