Three ComediesPenguin, 01/01/1966 - 488 من الصفحات Shakespearers"s nearest rival created in Volpone and The Alchemist hilarious portraits of cupidity and chicanery, while in Bartholomew Fair he portrays his fellow Londoners at their most festive-and most bawdy. |
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الصفحة 8
... present - day reputation ; and anyone in- troducing a volume of his plays has to begin by stressing what ought to be obvious that his three best comedies are still very funny , that they make splendid reading , and that they are vivid ...
... present - day reputation ; and anyone in- troducing a volume of his plays has to begin by stressing what ought to be obvious that his three best comedies are still very funny , that they make splendid reading , and that they are vivid ...
الصفحة 15
... presents both his characters and their backgrounds with deliberate precision . The people of the play are , through their names , invested with animal symbolism ( Wolf , Fly , Vulture , Raven , and Crow ) , and linked with the creatures ...
... presents both his characters and their backgrounds with deliberate precision . The people of the play are , through their names , invested with animal symbolism ( Wolf , Fly , Vulture , Raven , and Crow ) , and linked with the creatures ...
الصفحة 17
... presents and making sardonic comments sotto voce to Mosca . There are wonderful opportunities here for by - play by the actor playing Volpone ; in Sir Donald Wolfit's performance he ' leered through the curtains and twiddled his toes ...
... presents and making sardonic comments sotto voce to Mosca . There are wonderful opportunities here for by - play by the actor playing Volpone ; in Sir Donald Wolfit's performance he ' leered through the curtains and twiddled his toes ...
الصفحة 18
... present , T'admire each graceful gesture , note , and footing . Typically , Volpone here recalls his past triumph as an actor , and the sex - appeal he had for the ladies of the Court . Typically , too , he links himself , in the pun on ...
... present , T'admire each graceful gesture , note , and footing . Typically , Volpone here recalls his past triumph as an actor , and the sex - appeal he had for the ladies of the Court . Typically , too , he links himself , in the pun on ...
الصفحة 25
... presents diffi- culties for today's reader - difficulties that , as in The Alchemist , spring from Jonson's rich and detailed evocation of Jacobean life through contemporary and local reference , and through specific jargons and slang ...
... presents diffi- culties for today's reader - difficulties that , as in The Alchemist , spring from Jonson's rich and detailed evocation of Jacobean life through contemporary and local reference , and through specific jargons and slang ...
المحتوى
PRELIMINARY NOTE TO VOLPONE | 37 |
EPISTLE TO VOLPONE | 41 |
VOLPONE OR THE FOX | 49 |
PRELIMINARY NOTE TO THE ALCHEMIST | 175 |
A NOTE ON ALCHEMY | 179 |
THE ALCHEMIST | 185 |
PRELIMINARY NOTE TO BARTHOLOMEW FAIR | 321 |
BARTHOLOMEW FAIR | 325 |
ADDITIONAL NOTES TO VOLPONE | 463 |
ADDITIONAL NOTES TO THE ALCHEMIST | 473 |
ADDITIONAL NOTES TO BARTHOLOMEW FAIR | 480 |
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
Alchemist ANANIAS AVOCATORE believe better bring BUSY Captain CELIA COKES comedy comes CORBACCIO CORVINO court DAME DAPPER Doctor DOL COMMON DRUGGER EDGWORTH Enter Exeunt Exit eyes FACE Fair faith father fear follow fool fortune gentlemen give gold gone GRACE hand hath head hear heart hope I'll John Jonson Justice KASTRIL keep knight KNOCKEM LADY WOULD-BE LEATHERHEAD leave LITTLEWIT live look LOVEWIT MAMMON mark Master means MISTRESS MISTRESS LITTLEWIT MOSCA NEIGHBOUR never NIGHTINGALE Note Numps OVERDO PEREGRINE play poor pray present PUPPET QUARLOUS SCENE SIR POLITIC sister speak spirit stand stay Stone SUBTLE SURLY tell thee there's thing thou thought true unto URSULA vapours VOLPONE VOLTORE warrant WASP WHIT wife WINWIFE woman worship young
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 18 - The milk of unicorns, and panthers' breath Gather'd in bags and mixt with Cretan wines. Our drink shall be prepared gold and amber ; Which we will take until my roof whirl round With the vertigo ; and my dwarf shall dance, My eunuch sing, my fool make up the antic, Whilst we, in change'd shapes, act Ovid's tales; Thou like Europa now, and I like...