Patterns and Perspectives in English Renaissance DramaUniversity of Delaware Press, 1988 - 309 páginas These essays bring attention to the designs that the English Renaissance playwrights imposed on their work. Among the patterns explored are those inspired by the literature, drama, or poetics of classical times and visual patterns derived from traditions of stage presentation. |
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... emotionally effec- tive dramatic moments and affecting the choice of rhetorical means to that end . In a study of ... emotion arouses more wonder than moral condemnation . Recognition of Ovidian influence in the style of certain speeches ...
... emotionally effec- tive dramatic moments and affecting the choice of rhetorical means to that end . In a study of ... emotion arouses more wonder than moral condemnation . Recognition of Ovidian influence in the style of certain speeches ...
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... emotional pattern of the play is directly related to this structure : Edward , unable to act effectively , is reduced to ineffectual raging ; " the shadow of political action is made manifest as eloquent emotion . " Thus , to portray a ...
... emotional pattern of the play is directly related to this structure : Edward , unable to act effectively , is reduced to ineffectual raging ; " the shadow of political action is made manifest as eloquent emotion . " Thus , to portray a ...
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... emotional effect of poetry , says nothing about moral usefulness except what is implied in his theory of catharsis . Rhetoric , as all agreed , was intended to combine teaching and delight — as Cicero was later to put it , docere ...
... emotional effect of poetry , says nothing about moral usefulness except what is implied in his theory of catharsis . Rhetoric , as all agreed , was intended to combine teaching and delight — as Cicero was later to put it , docere ...
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... emotional appeal of Senecan tragedy is sometimes reminiscent of the declaimers . Some of the moving descriptions can be paralleled in the controversiae , and the outstanding speeches are highly declamatory . The subjects of the ...
... emotional appeal of Senecan tragedy is sometimes reminiscent of the declaimers . Some of the moving descriptions can be paralleled in the controversiae , and the outstanding speeches are highly declamatory . The subjects of the ...
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... emotional appeal of the scene but has prepared the spectators for the hero's madness , which is to follow . The second passage ( 3.2.65-74 ) is a brief heightening of an ironic conversation between Hieronymo and Lorenzo — a turn of the ...
... emotional appeal of the scene but has prepared the spectators for the hero's madness , which is to follow . The second passage ( 3.2.65-74 ) is a brief heightening of an ironic conversation between Hieronymo and Lorenzo — a turn of the ...
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English Style French Style | 55 |
Reflections on the Authors Agents in Comedy | 65 |
The Appeal of the Comic Deceiver | 78 |
Aristophanes Plautus Terence and the Refinement of English Comedy | 89 |
The English Masque and the Functions of Comedy | 107 |
Patterns Derived from Traditions of Staging | 125 |
Things as They Are and the World of Absolutes in Jonsons Plays and Masques | 179 |
John Ford and the Final Exaltation of Love | 196 |
Patterns Suited to Perspectives | 207 |
Marlowe and the Jades of Asia | 209 |
The Shadow of Action | 225 |
The Dramatic Structure of The Broken Heart | 240 |
King John and the Drama of History | 252 |
Mad Lovers Vainglorious Soldiers | 281 |
The Wounds of Civil War in Plays by Shakespeare and His Predecessors | 127 |
The Ceremonies of Titus Andronicus | 138 |
Shakespeare and the Ceremonies of Romance | 148 |
Spectacles of State | 167 |
Shakespeare and Fletcher on Love and Friendship | 289 |
Index | 304 |
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Página 71 - O ! wonder ! How many goodly creatures are there here ! How beauteous mankind is ! O brave new world, That has such people in't ! Pro.
Página 228 - The troublesome Raigne and lamentable Death of Edward the Second, King of England: with the tragicall fall of proud Mortimer.
Página 70 - Gentle breath of yours my sails Must fill, or else my project fails, Which was to please. Now I want Spirits to enforce, art to enchant; And my ending is despair Unless I be reliev'd by prayer, Which pierces so that it assaults Mercy itself, and frees all faults.
Página 102 - ... not void of these talents, have made so wretched a use of them, that, had the consecration of their labours been committed to the hands of the hangman, no good man would have regretted their loss; nor am I afraid to mention Rabelais, and Aristophanes himself, in this number. For, if I may speak my opinion freely of these two last writers, and of their works, their design appears to me very plainly to have been to ridicule all sobriety, modesty, decency, virtue, and religion, out of the world.
Página 223 - Had fed the feeling of their masters' thoughts, And every sweetness that inspir'd their hearts, Their minds, and muses on admired themes; If all the heavenly quintessence they still From their immortal flowers of poesy, Wherein, as in a mirror, we perceive The highest reaches of a human wit; If these had made one poem's period, And all...
Página 231 - And with the world be still at enmity. What need the arctic people love starlight, To whom the sun shines both by day and night? Farewell base stooping to the lordly peers! My knee shall bow to none but to the king. As for the multitude, that are...
Página 237 - My head the latest honour due to it, And jointly both yield up their wished right. Continue ever, thou celestial sun ; Let never silent night possess this clime ; Stand still, you watches...
Página 210 - Holla, ye pampered jades of Asia! What, can ye draw but twenty miles a day, And have so proud a chariot at your heels, And such a coachman as great Tamburlaine, But from Asphaltis, where I conquered you, To Byron here, where thus I honour you?
Página 97 - Tis not the' poet, but the age is prais'd. Wit's now arriv'd to a more high degree; Our native language more refin'd and free. Our ladies and our men now speak more wit In conversation, than those poets writ.