Shakespeare and the Modern Stage: With Other EssaysC. Scribner's Sons, 1906 - 251 Seiten |
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... of the acting pro- fession that must largely depend the final answer to the question whether Phelps's experiment can be made again with likelihood of success . VII Foreign experience tells in favour of the contention that.
... of the acting pro- fession that must largely depend the final answer to the question whether Phelps's experiment can be made again with likelihood of success . VII Foreign experience tells in favour of the contention that.
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... question at issue at all , it tells against the pretensions of spectacle . Shortly stated , Shakespeare's splendid prelude to his play of Henry V. is a spirited appeal to his audience not to waste regrets on defects of stage machinery ...
... question at issue at all , it tells against the pretensions of spectacle . Shortly stated , Shakespeare's splendid prelude to his play of Henry V. is a spirited appeal to his audience not to waste regrets on defects of stage machinery ...
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... question of Shakespeare's merits compared with those of classical poets . The judges who presided over " this ingenious assembly " unan- imously and without qualification decided in favour of Shakespeare's superiority . A very eminent ...
... question of Shakespeare's merits compared with those of classical poets . The judges who presided over " this ingenious assembly " unan- imously and without qualification decided in favour of Shakespeare's superiority . A very eminent ...
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... question of degree . Pepys was clear in his own mind that a line must be drawn somewhere , though it would probably have taxed his logical power to make the delimitation precise . IV There is , apparently , a crowning difficulty of far ...
... question of degree . Pepys was clear in his own mind that a line must be drawn somewhere , though it would probably have taxed his logical power to make the delimitation precise . IV There is , apparently , a crowning difficulty of far ...
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... question to consider is whether in Eng- land the existing theatrical agencies promote for the general good the genuine interests of dramatic art . Do existing theatrical agencies secure for the nation all the beneficial influence that ...
... question to consider is whether in Eng- land the existing theatrical agencies promote for the general good the genuine interests of dramatic art . Do existing theatrical agencies secure for the nation all the beneficial influence that ...
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Seite 160 - In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil ? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text...
Seite 186 - 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.
Seite 169 - There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out...
Seite 20 - 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.
Seite 46 - ... 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.
Seite 153 - 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.
Seite 46 - 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.
Seite 155 - 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?
Seite 45 - 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.
Seite 7 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature ; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve; the censure of the which one must in your allowance o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.