The War of the TheatresGinn, 1897 - 168 Seiten "This monograph contains some results of the study of a group of Elizabethan plays, closely related to each other because all connected with the quarrel of Jonson and Marston."--Preface. |
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acted allusion Amorphus Anaides Anthony Monday Antonio and Mellida Apologetical Dialogue Asotus attack Ben Jonson Brabant Senior Bullen called Carlo Buffone Chamberlain's company character Children of Paul's Chrisoganus Chronicle Conversations with Drummond Crites critics Cynthia's Revels Daniel Delia Deliro Dramatic versus Wit Edward Knowell Emulo English Drama epigram evidence fact Fastidious Brisk Fleay says folio Fungoso fustian gentleman Gifford Grosart hath Hedon Henslowe Henslowe's Diary Histrio Histriomastix Horace Humour ibid identified intrinsecate Jack Drum John Marston Jonson's Conversations Jonson's play Lampatho lines Lodge Lyly Macilente Master Mathew Master Stephen mentioned mistress new-minted epithets passage Patient Grissil poet Poetaster Posthast probably Prologue Puntarvolo Quadratus quarrel quarto quoted reference reply Return from Parnassus ridiculed Samuel Daniel satire satirist Satiromastix scene School of Shakspere Scourge of Villanie Shakespeare Simpson Sogliardo Sonnet Sordido Spanish Tragedy speaks stage Theatres thou Torquatus Troilus and Cressida Tucca Untruss versus Wit Combats words writing
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Seite 15 - He rather prays you will be pleased to see One such, today, as other plays should be; Where neither chorus wafts you o'er the seas, Nor creaking throne comes down the boys to please, Nor nimble squib is seen to make afeard The gentlewomen, nor rolled bullet heard To say it thunders, nor tempestuous drum Rumbles to tell you when the storm doth come...
Seite 23 - A fond opinion, that he cannot err. Myself was once a student; and, indeed, Fed with the self-same humour, he is now, Dreaming on nought but idle poetry, That fruitless, and unprofitable art, [Good unto none, but least to the professors,] Which, then, I thought the mistress of all knowledge: But since, time, and the truth have waked my judgement, And reason taught me better to distinguish, The vain, from th
Seite 15 - As he dare serve th' ill customs of the age, Or purchase your delight at such a rate, As for it he himself must justly hate; — To make a child, now swaddled, to proceed Man, and then shoot up, in one beard and...
Seite 145 - Few of the university pen plays well; they smell too much of that writer Ovid and that writer Metamorphosis, and talk too much of Proserpina and Jupiter. Why, here's our fellow Shakespeare puts them all down, aye, and Ben Jonson too.
Seite 25 - You should have some now would take this Master Mathew to be a gentleman, at the least. His father's an honest man, a worshipful fishmonger, and so forth ; and now does he creep and wriggle into acquaintance with all the brave gallants about the town, such as my guest is (oh, my guest is a fine man !), and they flout him invincibly.
Seite 26 - I am melancholy myself, diver times, sir, and then do I no more but take pen and paper, presently, and overflow you half a score, or a dozen of sonnets at a sitting.
Seite 125 - I'll strip the ragged follies of the time Naked as at their birth . . . and with a whip of steel Print wounding lashes in their iron ribs.
Seite 58 - Now, gentlemen, I go To turn an actor and a humorist, Where, ere I do resume my present person, We hope to make the circles of your eyes Flow with distilled laughter : if we fail, We must impute it to this only chance, Art hath an enemy called ignorance.2 {Exit.
Seite 126 - Our doubtful author hopes this is their sphere ; And therefore opens he himself to those, To other weaker beams his labours close, As loth to prostitute their virgin-strain, ' To every vulgar and adulterate brain.
Seite 15 - Past threescore years ; or with three rusty swords, And help of some few foot and half-foot words, Fight over York and Lancaster's long jars, And in the tyring house bring wounds to scars. He rather prays you will be pleased to see One such today as other plays should be ; Where neither chorus wafts you o'er the seas...