A Study of the Drama, Volume 10Houghton Mifflin, 1910 - 320 páginas |
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... playgoers when they were performed in the theater , are now none the less quite unworthy of serious criticism when the attempt is made to ana- lyze them from the standpoint of literature alone . The success achieved by these pieces on ...
... playgoers when they were performed in the theater , are now none the less quite unworthy of serious criticism when the attempt is made to ana- lyze them from the standpoint of literature alone . The success achieved by these pieces on ...
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... playgoers whom they hoped to attract in motley masses . Consciously , to some extent , and un- consciously more often , they shaped the stories they were telling to the circumstances of the actual perform- ance customary on the ...
... playgoers whom they hoped to attract in motley masses . Consciously , to some extent , and un- consciously more often , they shaped the stories they were telling to the circumstances of the actual perform- ance customary on the ...
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... playgoers . As the ingenious and ingenuous Abbé d'Aubignac asserted , more than two centuries ago , when he was laying down laws for the drama : ' We are not to forget here ( and I think it one of the best Observations I have made upon ...
... playgoers . As the ingenious and ingenuous Abbé d'Aubignac asserted , more than two centuries ago , when he was laying down laws for the drama : ' We are not to forget here ( and I think it one of the best Observations I have made upon ...
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... playgoers , their opinions and their prejudices , he is under no undue strain when he does this ; and the most of his effort is unconscious , since he is always his own contemporary , sharing in the likes and dislikes of his fellow ...
... playgoers , their opinions and their prejudices , he is under no undue strain when he does this ; and the most of his effort is unconscious , since he is always his own contemporary , sharing in the likes and dislikes of his fellow ...
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... playgoers of two countries speaking the same language and inheriting the same social opinions ; such differences are discoverable sometimes between the audiences of London and the audiences of New York . For example , in Bronson ...
... playgoers of two countries speaking the same language and inheriting the same social opinions ; such differences are discoverable sometimes between the audiences of London and the audiences of New York . For example , in Bronson ...
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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.