| Samuel Johnson - 1908 - 254 páginas
...the circumscriptions of terrestrial nature. There is no reason why a mind tKus wandering in extacy should count the clock, or why an hour should not...stage, and that the players are only players. They came to hear a certain number of lines recited with just gesture and elegant modulation. The lines... | |
| Doris Gunnell - 1909 - 346 páginas
...tellement hors de la portée de la raison et de la froide vérité, que des hauteurs qu'habite son âme in that calenture of the brains that can make the...only players. They come to hear a certain number of Unes recited with iust gesture and elegant modulation. The Unes relate to some action, and an action... | |
| Jean Jules Jusserand - 1909 - 668 páginas
...Who wrote, for example, with his usual good sense, concerning Shakespeare's neglect of the unities: "The truth is that the spectators are always in their...only a stage and that the players are only players. . . . The different actions that complete a story may be in places very remote from each other ; and... | |
| 1910 - 482 páginas
...the circumscriptions of terrestrial nature. There is no reason why a mind thus wandering in extacy should count the clock, or why an hour should not...stage, and that the players are only players. They came to hear a certain number of lines recited with just gesture and elegant modulation. The lines... | |
| Brander Matthews - 1910 - 360 páginas
...concerns of one Person distinguishable great above the rest. — JEREMY COLLIER. Remarks upon the Relapse. The truth is that the spectators are always in their...stage and that the players are only players. They came to hear a certain number of lines recited with just gesture and elegant modulation. The lines... | |
| Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh, Walter Raleigh - 1910 - 210 páginas
...There is a sentence in the Preface to Shakespeare which might well be applied to clinch this matter : ' The truth is, that the spectators are always in their...only a stage, and that the players are only players.' Johnson was not in the least likely to fall into that solemn error which supposes that the populace,... | |
| Gerhard Richard Lomer - 1914 - 362 páginas
...finds himself committed to plays that have no endings." GB SHAW: Preface to Brieux' Three Plays. 9. "The truth is that the spectators are always in their...only a stage and that the players are only players." SAMUEL JOHNSON: Preface to Shakespeare. dramatic action is the doing of something really significant."... | |
| Herbert Morse - 1915 - 320 páginas
...the resemblance of reality." The answer to that, of course, is that the spectators are supposed to be in their senses, and know from the first act to the last that the stage is only a stage, and the players, players. It would be impossible to write an historical play at all, except of the most... | |
| Herbert Morse - 1915 - 320 páginas
...the resemblance of reality." The answer to that, of course, is that the spectators are supposed to be in their senses, and know from the first act to the last that the stage is only a stage, and the players, players. It would be impossible to write an historical play at all, except of the most... | |
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