A Defence of Poetry, Music, and Stage-plays, Volume 15,Edição 3

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Shakespeare society, 1853 - 129 páginas
 

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Página xxxvi - To those gentlemen, his quondam acquaintance, that spend their wits in making plays, RG wisheth a better exercise, and wisdom to prevent his extremities.
Página lxvii - Rosalynde, Euphues Golden Legacie, found after his death in his Cell at Silexedra, bequeathed to Philautus sonnes noursed up with their father in England, Fetcht from the Canaries by TL, gent., Imprinted by T.
Página lxxii - Players. LONDON Printed by Thomas Creede, and are to be sold by William Barley, at his shop in Newgate Market, neare Christ Church doore. 1594.
Página xxxvi - I advise thee, be advised; and get not many enemies by bitter words; inveigh against vain men, for thou canst do it, no man better, no man so well ; thou hast a liberty to reprove all and name none; for one being spoken to, all are offended; none being blamed, no man is injured.
Página lxxi - The Life and Death of William Longbeard, the most famous and witty English Traitor, borne in the Citty of London.
Página lxv - Love in my bosom like a bee, Doth suck his sweet; Now with his wings he plays with me, Now with his feet. Within mine eyes he makes his nest, His bed amidst my tender breast, My kisses are his daily feast; And yet he robs me of my rest: Ah, wanton, will ye?
Página 33 - Alarum against Vsurers. Containing tryed experiences against worldly abuses. . Wherein Gentlemen may finde good counsells to confirme them, and pleasant Histories to delight them : and euery thing so interlaced with varietie : as the curious may be satisfied with rarenesse, and the curteous with pleasure.
Página lxvii - Having, with Captain Clarke, made a voyage to the islands of Terceras and the Canaries, to beguile the time with labour I write this book ; rough, as hatched in the storms of the ocean, and feathered in the surge of many perilous seas.
Página 14 - And surely if I may speak my mind I think we shal find but few Poets, if it were exactly wayd, what they oughte to be : your...
Página lxxi - The Wounds of Civill War: lively set forth in the true Tragedies of Marius and Scilla. As it hath beene publiquely plaide in London, by the Right Honourable the Lord high Admirall his Servants.

Sobre o autor (1853)

While primarily remembered for composing the story that would provide the source for Shakespeare's "As You Like It", Thomas Lodge was a prolific author in his own right, who made prose fiction his chief concern. Son of a one-time London mayor, Lodge began his career as a lawyer but quickly found literature more attractive, perhaps because of the encouragement of his friend Robert Greene. Lodge was also a playwright. His first published work appears to be "A Defense of Stage Plays" (1580), an answer to the attack by Stephen Gosson, but the majority of his efforts were devoted to prose romances, such as "The Delectable History of Forbonius and Prisceria" (1584), "Scilla's Metamorphosis" (1589), and "Robert, Duke of Normandy" (1591). ''Rosalynde" (1590) is, like Sidney's "Arcadia," a pastoral romance, a form popular with urban Elizabethans for its idealized depiction of rural otium.

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