 | Maurice Chelli - 1923 - 406 Seiten
...have no wit ; his tragedies no propriety. There is not a single pathetic scene... &c. 3. 1808, ... Fletcher and Massinger, in the estimation of the world the only dramatic poets of that age who are entitled to be considered after Shakespeare... Massinger had not the high requisites of his... | |
 | Allardyce Nicoll - 2002 - 200 Seiten
...stated by Lamb in the preface to his Specimens: it was necessary to decide how much of Shakespeare shines in the great men his contemporaries, and how...mind and manners he surpassed them and all mankind. Or, to take Coleridge's formulation of the problem: No one can understand Shakespeare's superiority... | |
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... in the conflicts of duty and passion, or the strife of contending duties; what sort of loves and enmities theirs were; how their griefs were tempered, and their full-swoln joys abated: how much of Shakspeare shines in the great men his contemporaries,... 
