Shakespeare and the Modern Stage: With Other EssaysC. Scribner's Sons, 1906 - 251 sider |
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Side viii
... contemporary critics . These features of current dramatic history are welcome to play- goers of literary tastes ; but I have attempted no survey of them , because signs are lacking that any essential change has been wrought by them in ...
... contemporary critics . These features of current dramatic history are welcome to play- goers of literary tastes ; but I have attempted no survey of them , because signs are lacking that any essential change has been wrought by them in ...
Side viii
... contemporary critics . These features of current dramatic history are welcome to play- goers of literary tastes ; but I have attempted no survey of them , because signs are lacking that any essential change has been wrought by them in ...
... contemporary critics . These features of current dramatic history are welcome to play- goers of literary tastes ; but I have attempted no survey of them , because signs are lacking that any essential change has been wrought by them in ...
Side 5
... contemporary affairs , the en- vironment which it is sought to reproduce is familiar and easy of imitation . In the case of drama , which involves larger spheres of fancy and feeling , the environment is unfamiliar and admits of no ...
... contemporary affairs , the en- vironment which it is sought to reproduce is familiar and easy of imitation . In the case of drama , which involves larger spheres of fancy and feeling , the environment is unfamiliar and admits of no ...
Side 28
... while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe . 1 Performances of plays in Shakespeare's time always took place in the afternoon . CONTEMPORARY POPULARITY 29 III There is a certain justification , 28 THE ELIZABETHAN PLAYGOER.
... while memory holds a seat In this distracted globe . 1 Performances of plays in Shakespeare's time always took place in the afternoon . CONTEMPORARY POPULARITY 29 III There is a certain justification , 28 THE ELIZABETHAN PLAYGOER.
Side 29
... contemporary , as : - Soul of the age , The applause , delight , and wonder of our stage . This play of Hamlet , this play of his " which most kindled English hearts , " received a specially enthusiastic welcome from Elizabethan ...
... contemporary , as : - Soul of the age , The applause , delight , and wonder of our stage . This play of Hamlet , this play of his " which most kindled English hearts , " received a specially enthusiastic welcome from Elizabethan ...
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Side 180 - A strange fish! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian.
Side 165 - There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out...
Side 159 - Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark, what discord follows ! each thing meets In mere oppugnancy : the bounded waters Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores, And make a sop of all this solid globe : Strength should be lord of imbecility, And the rude son should strike his father dead : Force should be right ; or rather, right and wrong, Between whose endless jar justice resides, Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then every thing includes itself in power,...
Side 18 - O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention ! A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene ! Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, Assume the port of Mars ; and, at his heels, Leash'd in like hounds, should famine, sword, and fire, Crouch for employment.
Side 148 - Tis mightiest in the mightiest, it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown. His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings; It is an attribute to God himself, And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice.
Side 44 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Side 158 - The primogenitive and due of birth, Prerogative of age, crowns, sceptres, laurels, But by degree, stand in authentic place ? Take but degree away, untune that string, And hark, what discord follows...
Side 44 - And let those, that play your clowns, speak no more than is set down for them : for there be of them, that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too ; though, in the mean time, some necessary question}: of the play be then to be considered : that's villainous ; and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.
Side 151 - Lear. What, art mad ? A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears : see how yond justice rails upon yond simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: change places; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief?
Side 43 - Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you, trippingly on the tongue : but if you mouth it, as many of our players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines.