John Webster and the Elizabethan DramaSidgwick & Jackson, Limited, 1916 - 276 من الصفحات |
من داخل الكتاب
النتائج 1-5 من 51
الصفحة 15
... give a provisional answer to some of the more important questions . " What is Art ? " is a question which most writers on subjects connected with literature , painting , plays , music , society , or life , are ready with an equal ...
... give a provisional answer to some of the more important questions . " What is Art ? " is a question which most writers on subjects connected with literature , painting , plays , music , society , or life , are ready with an equal ...
الصفحة 19
... give the right answers , but even more important to ask the right questions . So here . Better than to ask " What is Art ? " is it to ask " What do you feel before this picture ? " " Before that picture ? " " Is there anything com- mon ...
... give the right answers , but even more important to ask the right questions . So here . Better than to ask " What is Art ? " is it to ask " What do you feel before this picture ? " " Before that picture ? " " Is there anything com- mon ...
الصفحة 26
... gives theatrical art two features . It can arouse all the emotions that can be got through the con- secution of events ; and it can employ the suc- cession of emotions in the mind . Both these are important . Take the latter first . It ...
... gives theatrical art two features . It can arouse all the emotions that can be got through the con- secution of events ; and it can employ the suc- cession of emotions in the mind . Both these are important . Take the latter first . It ...
الصفحة 32
... convention means that one says , " Suppose Romans talked English blank verse , then " and gives oneself to the play ; or , to put it another way , one puts a lid on one's knowledge that Romans didn't talk English 32 JOHN WEBSTER.
... convention means that one says , " Suppose Romans talked English blank verse , then " and gives oneself to the play ; or , to put it another way , one puts a lid on one's knowledge that Romans didn't talk English 32 JOHN WEBSTER.
الصفحة 52
... the emotion of the philosopher who sees the type through the individual , Love beneath the lover . The latter gives you the particular ; some definite person or circumstance so poignantly that you feel it 52 JOHN WEBSTER.
... the emotion of the philosopher who sees the type through the individual , Love beneath the lover . The latter gives you the particular ; some definite person or circumstance so poignantly that you feel it 52 JOHN WEBSTER.
طبعات أخرى - عرض جميع المقتطفات
عبارات ومصطلحات مألوفة
æsthetic Appius and Vir Appius and Virginia Arcadia artist atmosphere audience authorship beauty beginning Ben Jonson bethan blank verse Bonvile borrowing Bosola Brachiano Chapman characters childish collaboration comedy couplets Cuckold Cure death Dekker Devil's Law-Case dramatist Duchess of Malfi Dyce Elizabethan drama Elizabethan play emotions English feel Flamineo Fletcher gives Grumph Heywood Icilius idea imitated instance John Webster Jonson kind of play less Lessingham lines literary literature Lust's Dominion Malcontent Marlowe Marston Massinger mediæval metre metrical mind Monticelso Monumental Column moral Northward Northward Ho note-book Parliament of Love passages passion performance period phrase plot poet probably quarto queer Rape of Lucrece rest Romelio Rowley satire scene seems Shakespeare Sir Thomas Wyatt soliloquy speech ster Stoll story style theatre things thought tion Tourneur tragedy various Vittoria Webster wrote Westward Westward Ho White Devil whole words writing written
مقاطع مشهورة
الصفحة 202 - Bastard without a father to acknowledge it ; true it is that my plays are not exposed to the world in volumes, to bear the title of works (as others *) : one reason is, that many of them by shifting and change of companies, have been negligently lost. Others of them are still retained in the hands of some actors, who think it against their peculiar profit to have them come in print, and a third that it never was any great ambition in me to be in this kind voluminously read.
الصفحة 155 - Some would think the souls of princes were brought forth by some more weighty cause than those of meaner persons : they are deceived...
الصفحة 151 - I'll join with thee in a most just revenge: The weakest arm is strong enough that strikes With the sword of justice.
الصفحة 107 - I am puzzled in a question about hell : He says, in hell there's one material fire, And yet it shall not burn all men alike. Lay him by. How tedious is a guilty conscience ! When I look into the fish-ponds in my garden, Methinks I see a thing armed with a rake, That seems to strike at me.
الصفحة 108 - What dost think on ? Flam. Nothing ; of nothing : leave thy idle questions. I am i' the way to study a long silence : To prate were idle. I remember nothing. There's nothing of so infinite vexation As man's own thoughts.
الصفحة 277 - The White Devil, or, the Tragedy of Paulo Giordano Ursini, Duke of Brachiano, with the Life and Death of Vittoria Corombona, the famous Venetian Curtizan.
الصفحة 102 - Come, come, you have wronged her : What a strange credulous man were you, my lord, To think the Duke of Florence would love her ! 'Will any mercer take another's ware When once 'tis...
الصفحة 111 - With what a compell'd face a woman sits While she is drawing ! I have noted divers Either to feign smiles, or suck in the lips, To have a little mouth ; ruffle the cheeks, To have the dimple seen ; and so disorder The face with affectation, at next sitting It has not been the same : I have known others Have lost the entire fashion of their face In half an hour's sitting...
الصفحة 156 - Thou shalt lie in a bed stuffed with turtle's feathers ; swoon in perfumed linen, like the fellow was smothered in roses. So perfect shall be thy happiness, that as men at sea think land, and trees, and ships, go that way they go; so both heaven and earth shall seem to go your voyage.
الصفحة 214 - The Famous History of Sir Thomas Wyat. With the Coronation of Queen Mary, and the coming in of King Philip.