Oberon's Vision in the Midsummer-night's Dream: Illustrated by a Comparison with Lylie's EndymionShakespeare society, 1843 - 108 Seiten |
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affections allegory Arden arts Boaden Camden castle character circumstances COLLIER comedy conjecture Corsites cotemporary Countess of Essex Countess of Sheffield Countess of Shrewsbury court courtiers Cupid Cynthia Dipsas displeasure dolphin's drama Dugdale's Duke Earl of Leicester Earl of Shrewsbury Earl of Sussex edition Edward Stafford Eliz Endy Endymion Eumenides fable fair Vestal favour Floscula Gascoyne Geron Gosson hath heart honour imperial Votaress J. P. Collier Kenilworth Lady Douglas Sheffield Lady Lettice Laneham Leicester's little flower little western flower Lodge's Illustrations Lord Love in idleness lover Lunary Lylie Lylie's Majesty Majesty's marriage married Mary ment mermaid Midas Midsummer Night's Dream Nichols's Progresses Oberon Oberon's Vision object passion person play poet Poet's poetical present probably Puck Queen Elizabeth Queen of Scots quoth respect rival royal mistress satire says secret Semele Shakespeare SHAKESPEARE SOCIETY shew Sidney Sir Edward Stafford Sir Tophas story supposed Tellus thing thou tongue unhappy virtues wife
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Seite 28 - Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell : It fell upon a little western flower, — Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, — And maidens call it love-in-idleness.
Seite 10 - The juice of it on sleeping eyelids laid Will make or man or woman madly dote Upon the next live creature that it sees.
Seite 88 - Muses; For if I thought my judgment were of years, I should commit thee surely with thy peers, And tell how far thou didst our Lyly outshine, Or sporting Kyd, or Marlowe's mighty line...
Seite 5 - Flying between the cold moon and the earth, Cupid all arm'd : a certain aim he took At a fair vestal throned by the west, And loosed his love-shaft smartly from his bow, As it should pierce a hundred thousand hearts : But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quench'd in the chaste beams of the watery moon, And the imperial votaress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free.
Seite 105 - Such a wicked imagination was determined and attempted by a most unkind gentleman, the most adorned creature that ever your Majesty made.' " Her Majesty. ' He that will forget God will also forget his benefactors ; this tragedy was played forty times in open streets and houses.
Seite 22 - Warwick, gent,, whose parent and great-grandfather, late antecessor, for his faithful and approved service to the late most prudent prince, King Henry VII., of famous memory, was advanced and rewarded with lands and tenements, given to him in those parts of Warwickshire, where they have continued by some descents in good reputation and credit...
Seite 73 - I have not done, nor any thing so wished for as death. Yet among all the things that I committed, there is nothing so much tormenteth my rented and ransacked thoughts, as that in the prime of my husband's youth I divorced him by my devilish art; for which, if to die might be amends, I would not live till tomorrow. If to live and still be more miserable would better content him, I would wish of all creatures to be oldest and ugliest.
Seite 106 - The tragedy of Gowry, with all action and actors, hath been twice represented by the King's players, with exceeding concourse of all sorts of people; but whether the matter or manner be not well handled, or that it be thought unfit that princes should be played on the stage in their lifetime, I hear that some great counsellors are much displeased with it, and so, it is thought, it shall be forbidden.
Seite 106 - The Players do not forbear to represent upon their Stage the whole course of this present time, not sparing either King, State, or Religion, in so great absurdity and with such liberty, that any would be afraid to hear them...
Seite 9 - A primrose by a river's brim A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more.