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Whoever seeks , therefore , by the production of Shakespearean drama chiefly to please the spectator's eye shows scant respect both for the dramatist and for the spectator , however unwittingly he tends to misrepresent the one and to ...
Whoever seeks , therefore , by the production of Shakespearean drama chiefly to please the spectator's eye shows scant respect both for the dramatist and for the spectator , however unwittingly he tends to misrepresent the one and to ...
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EXPERIENCE OF KEAN AND IRVING 9 IV The practical manager , who naturally seeks pecuniary profit from his ventures , insists that these suggestions are counsels of perfection and these anticipations wild and fantastic dreams .
EXPERIENCE OF KEAN AND IRVING 9 IV The practical manager , who naturally seeks pecuniary profit from his ventures , insists that these suggestions are counsels of perfection and these anticipations wild and fantastic dreams .
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A young man of twoand - twenty , burdened with a wife and three children , he had left his home in the little country town of Stratford - on - Avon in 1586 to seek his fortune in London . Without friends , without money , he had ...
A young man of twoand - twenty , burdened with a wife and three children , he had left his home in the little country town of Stratford - on - Avon in 1586 to seek his fortune in London . Without friends , without money , he had ...
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He and his work had fascinated his sovereign , and many a time during her remaining nine years of life was she to seek delight again in the renderings of plays by himself and his fellow - actors at her palaces on the banks of the Thames ...
He and his work had fascinated his sovereign , and many a time during her remaining nine years of life was she to seek delight again in the renderings of plays by himself and his fellow - actors at her palaces on the banks of the Thames ...
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We must seek to enlarge our imaginative sympathy with Shakespeare's poetry . The imaginative faculty will not come to us at our call ; it will not come to us by the mechanism of study ; it may not come to us at all .
We must seek to enlarge our imaginative sympathy with Shakespeare's poetry . The imaginative faculty will not come to us at our call ; it will not come to us by the mechanism of study ; it may not come to us at all .
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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.