How to Read Shakespeare: A Guide for the General ReaderHodder and Stoughton, 1913 - 292 páginas |
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... dramatist ; next to Henry the Fifth , he may be called his ideal of manhood ; but it is not with his political principles but with the purity and completeness of his character as a man that Shakspeare is concerned . If there is any ...
... dramatist ; next to Henry the Fifth , he may be called his ideal of manhood ; but it is not with his political principles but with the purity and completeness of his character as a man that Shakspeare is concerned . If there is any ...
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... dramatist lavishes all the resources of his art . Antony is not the first whom she has fascinated . The divine Cæsar himself had been ensnared by her charms , and so had Pompey the Great . But Age cannot wither her , nor custom stale ...
... dramatist lavishes all the resources of his art . Antony is not the first whom she has fascinated . The divine Cæsar himself had been ensnared by her charms , and so had Pompey the Great . But Age cannot wither her , nor custom stale ...
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... dramatist ; and the Comedies number nearly half of all his plays . The audience in a theatre wants primarily to be amused , and the dramatist has to give what the public asks . The Comedies formed part of the day's work which Shakspeare ...
... dramatist ; and the Comedies number nearly half of all his plays . The audience in a theatre wants primarily to be amused , and the dramatist has to give what the public asks . The Comedies formed part of the day's work which Shakspeare ...
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... dramatists . Still more amusing is his exposure of the persons who at that time took upon themselves the art of acting . They were the most illiterate mechanics - the tailor , the weaver , the joiner , the bellows - mender - but such ...
... dramatists . Still more amusing is his exposure of the persons who at that time took upon themselves the art of acting . They were the most illiterate mechanics - the tailor , the weaver , the joiner , the bellows - mender - but such ...
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... dramatist matures in the practice of his art , the de- velopment of character becomes more prominent and mere incident less conspicuous ; thus the Comedy of CYTILOKMI Errors , an early piece , is little better THE GAYER COMEDIES ΙΟΙ.
... dramatist matures in the practice of his art , the de- velopment of character becomes more prominent and mere incident less conspicuous ; thus the Comedy of CYTILOKMI Errors , an early piece , is little better THE GAYER COMEDIES ΙΟΙ.
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Página 120 - What you do, Still betters what is done. When you speak, sweet, I'd have you do it ever : when you sing, I'd have you buy and sell so ; so give alms; Pray so ; and for the ordering your affairs, To sing them too : When you do dance, I wish you A wave o...
Página 140 - The isle is full of noises, Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices That, if I then had wak'd after long sleep, Will make me sleep again ; and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open and show riches Ready to drop upon me, that, when I wak'd, I cried to dream again.
Página 71 - The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on the water : the poop was beaten gold ; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were lovesick with them...
Página 103 - Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover and the poet Are of imagination all compact...
Página 188 - And let those that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villainous; and . shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Página 21 - Wilt thou upon the high and giddy mast Seal up the ship-boy's eyes, and rock his brains In cradle of the rude imperious surge ; And in the visitation of the winds, Who take the ruffian billows by the top, Curling their monstrous heads, and hanging them With deafning clamours in the slippery clouds, That, with the hurly, death itself awakes ? Canst thou, O partial sleep!
Página 108 - Signior Antonio, many a time and oft, In the Rialto, you have rated me About my moneys and my usances : Still have I borne it with a patient shrug ; For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe...
Página 166 - O, then, I see Queen Mab hath been with you. She is the fairies' midwife ; and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate-stone On the fore-finger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomies Athwart men's noses as they lie asleep : Her waggon-spokes made of long spinners...
Página 20 - To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run: How many make the hour full complete, How many hours bring about the day, How many days will finish up the year, How many years a mortal man may live. When this is known, then to divide the times: So many hours must I tend my flock; So many hours must I take my rest; So many hours must I contemplate; So many hours must I sport myself...
Página 274 - The spinsters and the knitters in the sun, And the free maids that weave their thread with bones, Do use to chant it ; it is silly sooth, And dallies with the innocence of love, Like the old age.