Shakespeare and the Modern Stage: With Other EssaysC. Scribner's Sons, 1906 - 251 páginas |
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... fact , deemed by the manager to be inadequate to satisfy the necessary commercial purposes of the theatre . The average purveyor of public entertain- ment reckons Shakespeare's plays among tasteless and colourless commodities , which ...
... fact , deemed by the manager to be inadequate to satisfy the necessary commercial purposes of the theatre . The average purveyor of public entertain- ment reckons Shakespeare's plays among tasteless and colourless commodities , which ...
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... fact to be accounted for ? Is it possible that it is attributable to some decay in us of the imagina- tion to a growing slowness on our part to ap- preciate works of imagination ? When one reflects on the simple mechanical contrivances ...
... fact to be accounted for ? Is it possible that it is attributable to some decay in us of the imagina- tion to a growing slowness on our part to ap- preciate works of imagination ? When one reflects on the simple mechanical contrivances ...
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... fact seems convincing testimony , not to the ability of Elizabethan or Jacobean boys - the nature of boys is a pretty permanent factor in human society -but to the superior imaginative faculty of adult Elizabethan or Jacobean playgoers ...
... fact seems convincing testimony , not to the ability of Elizabethan or Jacobean boys - the nature of boys is a pretty permanent factor in human society -but to the superior imaginative faculty of adult Elizabethan or Jacobean playgoers ...
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... fact , for the fancy that the plaudites were loud and long , when Shakespeare created the rôle of the " poor ghost " in the first production of his play of Hamlet in 1602. There is no doubt at all that Shakespeare conspicuously caught ...
... fact , for the fancy that the plaudites were loud and long , when Shakespeare created the rôle of the " poor ghost " in the first production of his play of Hamlet in 1602. There is no doubt at all that Shakespeare conspicuously caught ...
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... witnessing had been produced before the Court at Whitehall a few days earlier . Shakespeare's publishers were not above advertising facts like these , as may be seen by a survey of the title - pages of editions published.
... witnessing had been produced before the Court at Whitehall a few days earlier . Shakespeare's publishers were not above advertising facts like these , as may be seen by a survey of the title - pages of editions published.
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Página 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.
Página 165 - There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out...
Página 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,...
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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?
Página 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.