Shakespeare and the Modern Stage: With Other EssaysC. Scribner's Sons, 1906 - 251 páginas |
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... sense is ultimately truer than our own . The mode of producing Shakespeare on the stage in Germany supplies an argument to the same effect . In Berlin and Vienna , and in all the chief towns of German - speaking Europe , Shakespeare's ...
... sense is ultimately truer than our own . The mode of producing Shakespeare on the stage in Germany supplies an argument to the same effect . In Berlin and Vienna , and in all the chief towns of German - speaking Europe , Shakespeare's ...
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... sense , practical considerations of a pecuniary kind , teach us that it is only by the adoption of simple methods of production that we can hope to have Shakespeare represented in our theatres constantly and in all his variety . Until ...
... sense , practical considerations of a pecuniary kind , teach us that it is only by the adoption of simple methods of production that we can hope to have Shakespeare represented in our theatres constantly and in all his variety . Until ...
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... sense of literary inferiority which in all sincerity oppressed the spirits of surviving companions . One of the earliest of the elegies was a sonnet by William Basse , who gave picturesque expression to the conviction that Shakespeare ...
... sense of literary inferiority which in all sincerity oppressed the spirits of surviving companions . One of the earliest of the elegies was a sonnet by William Basse , who gave picturesque expression to the conviction that Shakespeare ...
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... sense of shame as he realised how shabbily his companions were dressed , in comparison with the smartly - attired ladies round about them . Everyone knows how susceptible Pepys was in all situations of life to female charms . It was in ...
... sense of shame as he realised how shabbily his companions were dressed , in comparison with the smartly - attired ladies round about them . Everyone knows how susceptible Pepys was in all situations of life to female charms . It was in ...
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... sense which appeal to the practical and hard - headed type of Englishman . Things of the imagination , on the other hand , stood with him on a different footing . They were out of his range or sphere . Poetry and romance , unless ...
... sense which appeal to the practical and hard - headed type of Englishman . Things of the imagination , on the other hand , stood with him on a different footing . They were out of his range or sphere . Poetry and romance , unless ...
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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.