Prefaces. The tempest. The two gentlemen of Verona. The merry wives of Windsor.- v.2. Measure for measure. Comedy of errors. Much ado about nothing. Love's labour lost.- v.3. Midsummer night's dream. Merchant of Venice. As you like it. Taming the shrew.- v.4. All's well that ends well. Twelfth night. Winter's tale. Macbeth.- v.5 King John. King Richrd II. King Henry IV, parts I-II.- v.6. King Henry V. King Henry VI, parts I-III.- v.7 King Richard III. King Henry VIII. Coriolanus.- v.8. Julius Cæsar. Anthony and Cleopatra. Timon of Athens. Titus Andronicus.- v. 9. Troilus and Cressida. Cymbeline. King Lear.- v. 10. Romeo and Juliet. Hamlet. OthelloC. Bathurst, 1778 |
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الصفحة 24
... is always lefs . The humour of Petruchio may be heightened by grimace ; but what voice or what gesture can hope to add dignity or force to the foliloquy of Cato ? A play A play read , affects the mind like a play 24 PREFACE .
... is always lefs . The humour of Petruchio may be heightened by grimace ; but what voice or what gesture can hope to add dignity or force to the foliloquy of Cato ? A play A play read , affects the mind like a play 24 PREFACE .
الصفحة 112
... humour that then prevailed . The audience was gene- rally compofed of the meaner fort of people ; and therefore the images of life were to be drawn from those of their own rank accordingly we find , that not our author's only , but ...
... humour that then prevailed . The audience was gene- rally compofed of the meaner fort of people ; and therefore the images of life were to be drawn from those of their own rank accordingly we find , that not our author's only , but ...
الصفحة 113
... humour , and complying with the wit in fafhion ; à confideration which brings all their judg- ment to a fhort point . Players are juft fuch judges of what is right , as taylors are of what is graceful . And in this view it will be but ...
... humour , and complying with the wit in fafhion ; à confideration which brings all their judg- ment to a fhort point . Players are juft fuch judges of what is right , as taylors are of what is graceful . And in this view it will be but ...
الصفحة 138
... humour the caprice , or fuppofed convenience of fome particular actor . Hence much confufion and impro- priety has attended , and embarraffed the business and fable . To these obvious caufes of corruption it must be added , that our ...
... humour the caprice , or fuppofed convenience of fome particular actor . Hence much confufion and impro- priety has attended , and embarraffed the business and fable . To these obvious caufes of corruption it must be added , that our ...
الصفحة 142
... humour , than vices cognizable to the laws . The English , from the hap- piness of a free conftitution , and a turn of mind peculiarly fpeculative and inquifitive , are obferved to produce more humourists , and a greater variety of ...
... humour , than vices cognizable to the laws . The English , from the hap- piness of a free conftitution , and a turn of mind peculiarly fpeculative and inquifitive , are obferved to produce more humourists , and a greater variety of ...
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