A Guide to Greek Tragedy for English Readers, Volume 46Percival, 1891 - 335 pagina's |
Vanuit het boek
Resultaten 1-5 van 58
Pagina 5
... Oedipus Tyrannus , Medea , Macbeth , Othello , King Lear - let us attempt to generalise their common character- istics . A tragedy is a drama in which the spectator is made to feel poignantly the sadness of life , but in 1 " Of that ...
... Oedipus Tyrannus , Medea , Macbeth , Othello , King Lear - let us attempt to generalise their common character- istics . A tragedy is a drama in which the spectator is made to feel poignantly the sadness of life , but in 1 " Of that ...
Pagina 20
... Oedipus , leads to unforeseen disaster at a far- off time . Can we now describe in few words the function and the charm of tragedy ? Life is full of sadness ; each heart has its burden , " the unselfish for another's pain , the selfish ...
... Oedipus , leads to unforeseen disaster at a far- off time . Can we now describe in few words the function and the charm of tragedy ? Life is full of sadness ; each heart has its burden , " the unselfish for another's pain , the selfish ...
Pagina 23
... Oedipus or Heracles and their distant woes , he returns with deepened thoughts and strengthened resolu- tion to encounter for himself the stern realities of life , or to bow in silent contemplation before its mystery . The repose , then ...
... Oedipus or Heracles and their distant woes , he returns with deepened thoughts and strengthened resolu- tion to encounter for himself the stern realities of life , or to bow in silent contemplation before its mystery . The repose , then ...
Pagina 34
... Oedipus or Philoctetes there are diverse elements which the poet's art has brought together and harmonised . It 4. The multiplicity of characters in Shake- speare makes up in some degree for the absence of the chorus in so far as they ...
... Oedipus or Philoctetes there are diverse elements which the poet's art has brought together and harmonised . It 4. The multiplicity of characters in Shake- speare makes up in some degree for the absence of the chorus in so far as they ...
Pagina 37
... Oedipus may be broken up and varied in declamation to a moderate - sized audience without any essential departure from the meaning of the poet , but rather with the effect of interpreting him more faithfully . Similarly , there are ...
... Oedipus may be broken up and varied in declamation to a moderate - sized audience without any essential departure from the meaning of the poet , but rather with the effect of interpreting him more faithfully . Similarly , there are ...
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
action actor Aesch Aeschylean Aeschylus Aeschylus and Sophocles Agamemnon Ajax Alcestis amongst ancient Antigone Antiopa appears Aristophanes Aristotle Athenian Athens Atossa Attic audience Bacchic Bacchus Books to consult Cambyses character chief person Choëphoroe choral Chorus Clytemnestra Creon Darius death Deianira dialogue Dionysiac Dionysus divine effect Electra element emotion English entrance epic Erinyes essential Eteocles Eumenides Euripides fables Fate feeling followed fragments genius gods Greek tragedy hath Heracles hero heroic horror human imagination impression Iphigenia legend less Lycus lyric Macbeth Medea Messenger modern motive narrative nature Neoptolemus Odysseus Oedipus Coloneus Oedipus Tyrannus orchestra Orestes parodos passion Persae Phaethon Philoctetes play poet's poetry Praxaspes present Prometheus rendered Salamis satyric drama says scene Seven against Thebes Shakespeare Soph Sophoclean Sophocles sorrow speak spectator speech spirit stage stasimon sympathy theatre Theban Theseus thou thought tion Trachiniae tradition tragic poet translation trilogy unity verse whole worship Zeus
Populaire passages
Pagina 4 - She dwells with Beauty — Beauty that must die; And Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips Bidding adieu; and aching Pleasure nigh, Turning to Poison while the bee-mouth sips: Ay, in the very temple of Delight Veil'd Melancholy has her sovran shrine, Though seen of none save him whose strenuous tongue Can burst Joy's grape against his palate fine; His soul shall taste the sadness of her might, And be among her cloudy trophies hung.
Pagina 38 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream : The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Pagina 5 - TRAGEDY, as it was anciently composed, hath been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most profitable of all other poems ; therefore said by Aristotle to be of power, by raising pity, and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and such like passions, that is, to temper and reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirred up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated.
Pagina 217 - Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control, These three alone lead life to sovereign power. Yet not for power (power of herself Would come uncall'd for) but to live by law, Acting the law we live by without fear; And, because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.
Pagina 29 - I have endeavoured in this play to follow the practice of the ancients, who, as Mr Rymer has judiciously observed, are and ought to be our masters.
Pagina 213 - Stern Lawgiver ! yet thou dost wear The Godhead's most benignant grace; Nor know we anything so fair As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds And fragrance in thy footing treads ; Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong.
Pagina 29 - English theatre requires. Particularly, the action is so much one, that it is the only of the kind without episode, or underplot; every scene in the tragedy conducing to the main design, and every act concluding with a turn of it.
Pagina 24 - We still have judgment here ; that we but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return To plague the inventor ; this even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poison'd chalice To our own lips.
Pagina 3 - Even so the distant funeral : the few mourners on horseback, with their plaids wrapped around them — the father heading the procession as they enter the river, and pointing out the ford by which his darling is to be carried on the last long road — none of the subordinate figures in discord with the general tone of the incident, but seeming just accessions, and no more ; — this is affecting.
Pagina 212 - He taught us little; but our soul Had felt him like the thunder's roll. With shivering heart the strife we saw Of passion with eternal law; And yet with reverential awe We watched the fount of fiery life Which served for that Titanic strife.