Shakespeare and His CriticsHoughton Mifflin, 1909 - 386 páginas |
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... stage of its development . We have learned to respect both Samuel Johnson and Samuel Coleridge . Shakespearean criticism has its historical value and slow line of development as much as free institutions . It may well be , too , that it ...
... stage of its development . We have learned to respect both Samuel Johnson and Samuel Coleridge . Shakespearean criticism has its historical value and slow line of development as much as free institutions . It may well be , too , that it ...
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... stages of devel- opment , and are then , as in the case of Hamlet , of great value in showing how the author amplified his work . In some instances different copies of the same edition of a quarto differ , as if the press work had been ...
... stages of devel- opment , and are then , as in the case of Hamlet , of great value in showing how the author amplified his work . In some instances different copies of the same edition of a quarto differ , as if the press work had been ...
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... stage , their astonishing vitality is more evident to us , for they alone do not grow ' old - fashioned , ' and are still eminently playable , though not in the least mechanically adapted to the methods of modern acting . The criticism ...
... stage , their astonishing vitality is more evident to us , for they alone do not grow ' old - fashioned , ' and are still eminently playable , though not in the least mechanically adapted to the methods of modern acting . The criticism ...
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Charles F. Johnson. are both , and some knowledge of the stage and the audi- ence and of the dramas preceding 1600 puts them in a truer relation to the humanity of their age and of ours . Such knowledge is difficult to acquire , for it ...
Charles F. Johnson. are both , and some knowledge of the stage and the audi- ence and of the dramas preceding 1600 puts them in a truer relation to the humanity of their age and of ours . Such knowledge is difficult to acquire , for it ...
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... stage ; for comedy , witness , his Gentlemen of Verona , his Errors , his Love's Labour's Lost , his Midsummer - Night's Dream , and his Merchant of Venice ; for tragedy , his Richard the Second , Richard the Third , Henry the Fourth ...
... stage ; for comedy , witness , his Gentlemen of Verona , his Errors , his Love's Labour's Lost , his Midsummer - Night's Dream , and his Merchant of Venice ; for tragedy , his Richard the Second , Richard the Third , Henry the Fourth ...
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action actor admiration æsthetic artist audience beauty Ben Jonson Bradley called character Coleridge comedy construction Cymbeline dramatic dramatist edition editors eighteenth century Elizabethan emendations English evident fact Falstaff feel Folio force French genius German ghost give Hamlet Hazlitt hero historical human nature Iago idea imagination interest Johnson Juliet Julius Cæsar King language Lear learned lines literary literature Love's Labour's Lost Macbeth Malone means Merchant of Venice Midsummer Night's Dream mind modern moral never Ophelia original Othello passages passion person playwright plot poet poetic poetry Pope Professor qualities quartos question regard Richard Grant White romantic romanticist Rosalind rules says scene Schlegel scholar seems sense Shake Shakespeare Shakespeare's plays Shakespearean criticism sometimes soul speare speare's spirit stage Steevens story Theobald things thought tion tragedy true Twelfth Night unity verse Warburton Winter's Tale words writing written
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Página 27 - Yet must I not give nature all ; thy art, My gentle SHAKESPEARE, must enjoy a part. For though the poet's matter nature be, His art doth give the fashion : and, that he 278 Who casts to write a living line, must sweat, (Such as thine are) and strike the second heat Upon the Muses...
Página 57 - He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul, All the images of Nature were still present to him, and he drew them, not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too.
Página 26 - Euripides, and Sophocles to us, Pacuvius, Accius, him of Cordova, dead, To life again, to hear thy buskin tread And shake a stage ; or, when thy socks were on, Leave thee alone for the comparison Of all that insolent Greece or haughty Rome Sent forth, or since did from their ashes come.
Página 179 - The form is mechanic, when on any given material we impress a predetermined form, not necessarily arising out of the properties of the material; as when to a mass of wet clay we give whatever shape we wish it to retain when hardened. The organic form, on the other hand, is innate; it shapes, as it develops, itself from within, and the fullness of its development is one and the same with the perfection of its outward form.
Página 184 - On the stage we see nothing but corporal infirmities and weakness, the impotence of rage ; while we read it, we see not Lear, but we are Lear, — we are in his mind, we are sustained by a grandeur which baffles the "Malice of daughters and .storms.
Página 25 - To draw no envy, SHAKESPEARE, on thy name, Am I thus ample to thy book and fame ; While I confess thy writings to be such, As neither man, nor muse, can praise too much.
Página 57 - I cannot say he is everywhere alike; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when some great occasion is presented to him...
Página 34 - By heaven, methinks it were an easy leap, To pluck bright honour from the pale-faced moon, Or dive into the bottom of the deep, Where fathom-line could never touch the ground, And pluck up drowned honour by the locks...
Página 116 - Yet the man thus corrupt, thus despicable, makes himself necessary to the prince that despises him, by the most pleasing of all qualities, perpetual gaiety; by an unfailing power of exciting laughter...
Página 26 - And tell how far thou didst our Lyly outshine, Or sporting Kyd, or Marlowe's mighty line...