| Hippolyte Taine - 1904 - 484 דפים
...be pleas'd to see." * He wishes to represent on the stage " One such to-day, as other plays shou'd be ; Where neither chorus wafts you o'er the seas, Nor creaking throne cornea down the boys to please : Nor nimble squib is seen to make afeard The gentlewomen. . . . But... | |
| Stanford University. English Club - 1905 - 80 דפים
...Lancaster's long jars, And in the tyring-house bring wounds to scars. He rather prays you will be pleas'd to see One such to-day, as other plays should be;...Nor creaking throne comes down, the boys to please; Nor nimble squib is seen, to make afeard The gentlewomen ; nor roll'd bullet heard To say it thunders;... | |
| 1906 - 938 דפים
...Not for him the base truckling of those poets who would serve the "ill customs of the age." Rather be pleased to see One such today as other plays should be, — wherein, instead of the crudities and impossibilities of the romantic drama, you shall find Deeds... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1909 - 236 דפים
...method in Henry V. Cp. Prologue to Every Man in his Ilumour (added to the play after 1601):—- "tie rather prays, you will be pleased to see One such, to-day, as other phii/s should be; Where neither chorus wafts you o'er the seas," &c. Towards the end of his career,... | |
| Ben Jonson - 1966 - 500 דפים
...Prologue to Every Man in his Humour tells of the author's ambition to offer models of comedy-writing: He rather prays, you will be pleased to see One such, today, as other plays should be. Jonson promises: . . . deeds and language, such as men do use, And persons, such as Comedy would choose,... | |
| David Daiches - 1979 - 304 דפים
...words, Fight over York and Lancaster's long jars, And in the tiring house bring wounds to scars. He rather prays, you will be pleased to see One such...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,... | |
| Henry W. Sullivan - 1981 - 200 דפים
...of genuine dramatic talent. As he says in the Prologue to Every Man in his Humour (1 598-1616): He rather prays you will be pleased to see One such,...be; Where neither chorus wafts you o'er the seas. 97 Philip IV. The audience would be required to extract a contemporary relevance from the saga of medieval... | |
| Michael J. Sidnell - 1991 - 332 דפים
...words, Fight over York and Lancaster's long lars, And in the tiring house bring wounds, to scars. He rather prays, you will be pleased to see One such,...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:... | |
| Peter Thomson - 1992 - 224 דפים
...his prologue for the 1612 revival of Every Man in His Humour, boasting that this was to be a play: Where neither Chorus wafts you o'er the seas, Nor creaking throne comes down, the boys to please . . . the elaborate Heavens, throne and fly ing- effects were commonplace. Elizabethan theatre companies... | |
| J. L. Styan - 1996 - 452 דפים
...equally hard on the play that used words and cheap effects as a substitute for the unity of place: Where neither Chorus wafts you o'er the seas, Nor creaking throne comes down, the boys to please (15-16) Jonson's distaste for the spectacle of his contemporaries and his general opposition to the... | |
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