Shakespeare and the Modern Stage: With Other EssaysC. Scribner's Sons, 1906 - 251 Seiten |
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... sentiment and a higher histrionic capacity than Charles Kean possessed . Yet Irving announced not long before his death that he lost on his Shakespearean productions a hundred thousand pounds . Sir Henry added : The enormous cost of a ...
... sentiment and a higher histrionic capacity than Charles Kean possessed . Yet Irving announced not long before his death that he lost on his Shakespearean productions a hundred thousand pounds . Sir Henry added : The enormous cost of a ...
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... sentiment 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.
... sentiment 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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... sentiment with which the fruits of his pen were welcomed in the play- house . But Shakespeare's journal does not exist , and we can only speculate as to its contents . II We would give much to know how Shakespeare recorded in his diary ...
... sentiment with which the fruits of his pen were welcomed in the play- house . But Shakespeare's journal does not exist , and we can only speculate as to its contents . II We would give much to know how Shakespeare recorded in his diary ...
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... sentiment found many a splendid echo . It resounded in Ben Jonson's lines of 1623 : - My Shakespeare , rise ! I will not lodge thee by Ch Chaucer , or Spenser , or bid Beaumont lie little further to make thee a room . Thou art a ...
... sentiment found many a splendid echo . It resounded in Ben Jonson's lines of 1623 : - My Shakespeare , rise ! I will not lodge thee by Ch Chaucer , or Spenser , or bid Beaumont lie little further to make thee a room . Thou art a ...
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... sentiment . He judged that it became a vicar of Stratford to know his Shakespeare well , and one of his private reminders for his own conduct runs " Remember to peruse Shakespeare's plays , and bee much versed in them , that I may not ...
... sentiment . He judged that it became a vicar of Stratford to know his Shakespeare well , and one of his private reminders for his own conduct runs " Remember to peruse Shakespeare's plays , and bee much versed in them , that I may not ...
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acting actor admiration artistic audience Bacon Beeston Ben Jonson Benson's Betterton biography Cæsar career character Charles Charles Kean classical comedy commemorative contemporary critical Cymbeline D'Avenant D'Avenant's death dramatic art dramatist Ducis Dumas Elizabethan Elizabethan playgoer endeavour England English France French genius George Peele Hamlet Henry histrionic honour human imagination interest Jonson Julius Cæsar King less literary drama literature London County Council Love's Labour's Lost Lowin manager memorial of Shakespeare ment methods modern monument moral municipal theatre never Nicholas Rowe oral tradition Othello patriotic instinct Pepys Pepys's performance Phelps Phelps's philosophy piece playhouse plays of Shakespeare poet poet's poetic poetry present produced realise rendered reputation Richard II rôles scenery scenic sentiment seventeenth century Shake Shakespeare's plays Shakespearean drama Shoreditch speare speare's spearean spectacular speech stage Stratford Stratford-on-Avon Tempest theatrical enterprise thou tion tragedy Twelfth Night William Beeston writing wrote
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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.