The War of the Theatres

כריכה קדמית
Ginn, 1897 - 168 עמודים
"This monograph contains some results of the study of a group of Elizabethan plays, closely related to each other because all connected with the quarrel of Jonson and Marston."--Preface.

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עמוד 15 - He rather prays you will be pleased to see One such, today, as other plays should be; Where neither chorus wafts you o'er the seas, Nor creaking throne comes down the boys to please, Nor nimble squib is seen to make afeard The gentlewomen, nor rolled bullet heard To say it thunders, nor tempestuous drum Rumbles to tell you when the storm doth come...
עמוד 23 - A fond opinion, that he cannot err. Myself was once a student; and, indeed, Fed with the self-same humour, he is now, Dreaming on nought but idle poetry, That fruitless, and unprofitable art, [Good unto none, but least to the professors,] Which, then, I thought the mistress of all knowledge: But since, time, and the truth have waked my judgement, And reason taught me better to distinguish, The vain, from th
עמוד 15 - As he dare serve th' ill customs of the age, Or purchase your delight at such a rate, As for it he himself must justly hate; — To make a child, now swaddled, to proceed Man, and then shoot up, in one beard and...
עמוד 145 - Few of the university pen plays well; they smell too much of that writer Ovid and that writer Metamorphosis, and talk too much of Proserpina and Jupiter. Why, here's our fellow Shakespeare puts them all down, aye, and Ben Jonson too.
עמוד 25 - You should have some now would take this Master Mathew to be a gentleman, at the least. His father's an honest man, a worshipful fishmonger, and so forth ; and now does he creep and wriggle into acquaintance with all the brave gallants about the town, such as my guest is (oh, my guest is a fine man !), and they flout him invincibly.
עמוד 26 - I am melancholy myself, diver times, sir, and then do I no more but take pen and paper, presently, and overflow you half a score, or a dozen of sonnets at a sitting.
עמוד 125 - I'll strip the ragged follies of the time Naked as at their birth . . . and with a whip of steel Print wounding lashes in their iron ribs.
עמוד 58 - Now, gentlemen, I go To turn an actor and a humorist, Where, ere I do resume my present person, We hope to make the circles of your eyes Flow with distilled laughter : if we fail, We must impute it to this only chance, Art hath an enemy called ignorance.2 {Exit.
עמוד 126 - Our doubtful author hopes this is their sphere ; And therefore opens he himself to those, To other weaker beams his labours close, As loth to prostitute their virgin-strain, ' To every vulgar and adulterate brain.
עמוד 15 - Past threescore years ; or with three rusty swords, And help of some few foot and half-foot words, Fight over York and Lancaster's long jars, And in the tyring house bring wounds to scars. He rather prays you will be pleased to see One such today as other plays should be ; Where neither chorus wafts you o'er the seas...