Famous Introductions to Shakespeare's Plays by the Notable Editors of the Eighteenth CenturyBeverley Ellison Warner Dodd, Mead, 1906 - 268 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة xiii
... stage of the Globe and Blackfriars theatres , as popular in their day perhaps as the great dramatist . The play - going world of the twentieth cen- tury knows them not at all , and even to students of literature they are hardly more ...
... stage of the Globe and Blackfriars theatres , as popular in their day perhaps as the great dramatist . The play - going world of the twentieth cen- tury knows them not at all , and even to students of literature they are hardly more ...
الصفحة xiv
... stage during the Elizabethan cycle , as well as concerning the plays of Shakespeare himself . The semi - humorous opening paragraphs show no shyness on the editor's part at standing in the market place with wares to sell . " Read , and ...
... stage during the Elizabethan cycle , as well as concerning the plays of Shakespeare himself . The semi - humorous opening paragraphs show no shyness on the editor's part at standing in the market place with wares to sell . " Read , and ...
الصفحة xvi
... of the plays , and a history of the English stage , was there a contribution to Shakespeare study as notable for its intrinsic value , as this of Rowe . 2 How little the first commentator presaged what was to come xvi INTRODUCTORY ESSAY.
... of the plays , and a history of the English stage , was there a contribution to Shakespeare study as notable for its intrinsic value , as this of Rowe . 2 How little the first commentator presaged what was to come xvi INTRODUCTORY ESSAY.
الصفحة xxvi
... stage a field . ” Shakespearean dramas offer a proof in themselves , and the developments of the later drama buttress this proof , " that the unities of time and place are not neces- sary to a great drama , " and Dr. Johnson led the way ...
... stage a field . ” Shakespearean dramas offer a proof in themselves , and the developments of the later drama buttress this proof , " that the unities of time and place are not neces- sary to a great drama , " and Dr. Johnson led the way ...
الصفحة xxxii
... stage , and the customs of the Elizabethan players in handling their parts . He had an extensive first - hand knowledge of the earliest printed copies both of Shakespeare's plays and those of his contemporaries . He displays this ...
... stage , and the customs of the Elizabethan players in handling their parts . He had an extensive first - hand knowledge of the earliest printed copies both of Shakespeare's plays and those of his contemporaries . He displays this ...
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الصفحة 16 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was (indeed) honest, and of an open and free nature; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions...
الصفحة 266 - To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess.
الصفحة 252 - tis a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend.
الصفحة 114 - Shakespeare is above all writers, at least above all < modern writers, the poet of nature ; the poet that holds up to his readers a faithful mirror of manners and of life.
الصفحة 124 - This fault the barbarity of his age cannot extenuate; for it is always a writer's duty to make the world better, and justice is a virtue independent on time or place.
الصفحة 20 - All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players : They have their exits and their entrances ; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.
الصفحة 126 - A quibble is to Shakespeare what luminous vapours are to the traveller; he follows it at all adventures, it is sure to lead him out of his way, and sure to engulf him in the mire.
الصفحة 123 - He sacrifices virtue to convenience, and is so much more careful to please than to instruct, that he seems to write without any moral purpose. From his writings indeed a system of social duty may be selected, for he that thinks reasonably must think morally...
الصفحة 20 - With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances; And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts Into the...
الصفحة 4 - His mind and hand went together ; and what he thought, he uttered with that easiness, that we have scarce received from him a blot in his papers.