Literary and Graphical Illustrations of Shakspeare, and the British Drama: Comprising an Historical View of the Origin and Improvement of the English Stage, and a Series of Critical and Descriptive Notices of Upwards of One Hundred of the Most Celebrated Tragedies, Comedies, Operas, and Farces. Embellished with More Than Two Hundred Engravings on WoodMaurice and Company, and pub. by Hurst, Chance and E. Wilson, 1831 - 204 עמודים |
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עמוד xi
... characters , as Sin , Death , & c . , and the poetry of the times improved , a different kind of Drama was devised , consisting entirely of such abstract personifications , which were thence called MORALITIES . They probably did not ...
... characters , as Sin , Death , & c . , and the poetry of the times improved , a different kind of Drama was devised , consisting entirely of such abstract personifications , which were thence called MORALITIES . They probably did not ...
עמוד xii
... characters of the English annals are introduced , giv- ing poetical narratives of their own misfortunes . Romance was also now made the subject of dramatic performances ; and The Palace of Plea- sure , and various other collections of ...
... characters of the English annals are introduced , giv- ing poetical narratives of their own misfortunes . Romance was also now made the subject of dramatic performances ; and The Palace of Plea- sure , and various other collections of ...
עמוד xvi
... character of this Introduction to enter into any detail of them . A brief retrospect of the Origin and Improvement of the English Stage has now been given ; and the present sketch shall be concluded with a very few remarks upon the ...
... character of this Introduction to enter into any detail of them . A brief retrospect of the Origin and Improvement of the English Stage has now been given ; and the present sketch shall be concluded with a very few remarks upon the ...
עמוד 2
... characters , boundless invention , profound skill in nature , and variety of scenes and incidents , exhibited in the Tempest ; and Warburton calls it one of the noblest efforts of that sublime and ama- zing imagination peculiar to ...
... characters , boundless invention , profound skill in nature , and variety of scenes and incidents , exhibited in the Tempest ; and Warburton calls it one of the noblest efforts of that sublime and ama- zing imagination peculiar to ...
עמוד 6
... character of Justice Shallow is generally received and well known as a satire upon Sir Thomas Lucy . The most remarkable feature of this drama , is the number , variety , and discrimination , of the characters ; but the action is often ...
... character of Justice Shallow is generally received and well known as a satire upon Sir Thomas Lucy . The most remarkable feature of this drama , is the number , variety , and discrimination , of the characters ; but the action is often ...
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acted at Drury-Lane action actors admired afterwards alteration appeared applause attributed Bannister Barry called celebrated character Charles Cibber Colman Comedy comic commences Coriolanus DAVID GARRICK death Dowton Drury-Lane Duke Duke's Theatre edition eminent England ENGLISH STAGE entered at Stationers entertainment Epilogue excellent exhibited Falstaff Fanny Kemble Farce February folio Garrick Haymarket Henry IV humour J. P. Kemble J. R. Planché Jane Shore King Henry Lady Lincoln's Inn Fields London Lord Macklin Malone Miss modern stage nights October old play Opera original performers originally produced Oroonoko perhaps plot Pope present drama present piece Prince principal printed probably produced at Covent-Garden produced at Drury-Lane Prologue published quarto Queen Rackett racter Red Bull Theatre revived scene is laid season Shakspeare's Siddons songs story success supposed talent thee Theophilus Cibber Thomas thou Tom Thumb Tragedy whilst William Davenant WILLIAM SHAKSPEARE written Young
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עמוד 33 - All murder'd : for within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court, and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state and grinning at his pomp...
עמוד 63 - Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand ? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight ? or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain ? I see thee yet, in form as palpable As this which now I draw.
עמוד 45 - O God ! methinks it were a happy life To be no better than a homely swain : To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point...
עמוד 21 - Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven ; And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe, And then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot ; And thereby hangs a tale.
עמוד 69 - I will in Cassio's lodging lose this napkin, And let him find it. Trifles light as air, Are, to the jealous, confirmations strong As proofs of holy writ.
עמוד 31 - For heaven's sake, Hubert, let me not be bound ! Nay, hear me, Hubert ! — drive these men away, And I will sit as quiet as a lamb ; I will not stir, nor wince, nor speak a word, Nor look upon the iron angerly :5 Thrust but these men away, and I'll forgive you, Whatever torment you do put me to.
עמוד 154 - Be to her virtues very kind ; Be to her faults a little blind ; Let all her ways be unconfin'd ; And clap your padlock — on her mind.
עמוד 100 - Dr. Swift had been observing once to Mr. Gay, what an odd pretty sort of a thing a Newgate Pastoral might make. Gay was inclined to try at such a thing for some time; but afterwards thought it would be better to write a comedy on the same plan. This was what gave rise to The Beggar's Opera.
עמוד 64 - The younger sort take much delight in Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis ; but his Lucrece, and his tragedy of Hamlet Prince of Denmarke, have it in them to please the wiser sort, 1598.
עמוד 40 - How would it have joyed brave Talbot (the terror of the French) to think that after he had lain two hundred years in his tomb, he should triumph again on the stage, and have his bones new embalmed with the tears of ten thousand spectators at least (at several times) who in the tragedian that represents his person, imagine they behold him fresh bleeding...