Shakespeare and the Modern Stage: With Other EssaysC. Scribner's Sons, 1906 - 251 Seiten |
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... Richard II . , the three parts of Henry VI . , Troilus and Cressida , and Titus Andronicus . Of these , one alone , Richard II . , is really actable . The leading principles , to which Phelps strictly adhered throughout his career of ...
... Richard II . , the three parts of Henry VI . , Troilus and Cressida , and Titus Andronicus . Of these , one alone , Richard II . , is really actable . The leading principles , to which Phelps strictly adhered throughout his career of ...
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... Richard II . , in which Mr Granville Barker played the King with great charm and judgment , showed the fascination that a competent rendering of Shakespeare's text exerts , even in the total absence of scenery , over a large audience of ...
... Richard II . , in which Mr Granville Barker played the King with great charm and judgment , showed the fascination that a competent rendering of Shakespeare's text exerts , even in the total absence of scenery , over a large audience of ...
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... Richard II . , Richard III . , Romeo and Juliet , The Taming of the Shrew , The Tempest , SHAKESPEARE'S MINOR ROLES 115 is that Mr Benson and his 114 MR BENSON AND SHAKESPEAREAN DRAMA.
... Richard II . , Richard III . , Romeo and Juliet , The Taming of the Shrew , The Tempest , SHAKESPEARE'S MINOR ROLES 115 is that Mr Benson and his 114 MR BENSON AND SHAKESPEAREAN DRAMA.
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... Richard II . and Grumio in The Taming of the Shrew . Nothing could be more grateful to a student of Shakespeare than the manner in which the small part of John of Gaunt was played by Mr Warburton in Mr Benson's production of Richard II ...
... Richard II . and Grumio in The Taming of the Shrew . Nothing could be more grateful to a student of Shakespeare than the manner in which the small part of John of Gaunt was played by Mr Warburton in Mr Benson's production of Richard II ...
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... Richard II . soliloquize on the vain pride which imbues the king , while death all the time grins at his pomp and keeps his own court within the hollow crown that rounds the prince's mortal temples . Yet again , to identical effect is ...
... Richard II . soliloquize on the vain pride which imbues the king , while death all the time grins at his pomp and keeps his own court within the hollow crown that rounds the prince's mortal temples . Yet again , to identical effect is ...
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Seite 180 - 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 165 - There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distil it out...
Seite 159 - Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark, what discord follows ! each thing meets In mere oppugnancy : the bounded waters Should lift their bosoms higher than the shores, And make a sop of all this solid globe : Strength should be lord of imbecility, And the rude son should strike his father dead : Force should be right ; or rather, right and wrong, Between whose endless jar justice resides, Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then every thing includes itself in power,...
Seite 18 - 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 148 - 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 44 - ... 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 158 - The primogenitive and due of birth, Prerogative of age, crowns, sceptres, laurels, But by degree, stand in authentic place ? Take but degree away, untune that string, And hark, what discord follows...
Seite 44 - 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 151 - 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 43 - 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.