Bacon and Shakespeare: An Inquiry Touching Players, Playhouses, and Play-writers in the Days of ElizabethJ. R. Smith, 1857 - 166 pagina's |
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Pagina 37
... court in his meanest characters . " It is the absence of all uproariousness , and that tone of high breeding which pervades them , which renders it impossible to believe that Shakespeare , even had he been all that his fondest admirers ...
... court in his meanest characters . " It is the absence of all uproariousness , and that tone of high breeding which pervades them , which renders it impossible to believe that Shakespeare , even had he been all that his fondest admirers ...
Pagina 48
... court , the gentry , and any others , is become a calling whereby many get their living . How lawfully , is another question . Players in former times were retainers , and none had the privilege to act plays but such . So , in Queen ...
... court , the gentry , and any others , is become a calling whereby many get their living . How lawfully , is another question . Players in former times were retainers , and none had the privilege to act plays but such . So , in Queen ...
Pagina 50
... Court , and the Mem- bers of the Universities , acted plays before her . These were entirely complimentary . The Queen paid nothing for witnessing , neither did the per- formers receive anything for enacting them . Ingenious tradesmen ...
... Court , and the Mem- bers of the Universities , acted plays before her . These were entirely complimentary . The Queen paid nothing for witnessing , neither did the per- formers receive anything for enacting them . Ingenious tradesmen ...
Pagina 62
... Court of Denmark - strip him of his inky cloak - forget the fine painting with the upturned eyes and the skull in the left hand - dress him in a frock - coat and plaid trousers - call him Mr. Brown or Mr. Smith - and , placed in ...
... Court of Denmark - strip him of his inky cloak - forget the fine painting with the upturned eyes and the skull in the left hand - dress him in a frock - coat and plaid trousers - call him Mr. Brown or Mr. Smith - and , placed in ...
Pagina 67
... court , and the members of the universities , before the Queen , and by servants and retainers before noblemen , citizens , and gentlemen , their employers , not being accessible to everybody , are doubtless to be considered private ...
... court , and the members of the universities , before the Queen , and by servants and retainers before noblemen , citizens , and gentlemen , their employers , not being accessible to everybody , are doubtless to be considered private ...
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Bacon and Shakespeare: An Inquiry Touching Players, Playhouses, and Play ... William Henry Smith Volledige weergave - 1857 |
Bacon and Shakespeare: An Inquiry Touching Players, Playhouses, and Play ... William Henry Smith Volledige weergave - 1857 |
Bacon and Shakespeare: An Inquiry Touching Players, Playhouses, and Play ... William Henry Smith Volledige weergave - 1857 |
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Pagina 30 - The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room: Thou art a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give.
Pagina 72 - King Henry, making a masque at the Cardinal Wolsey's house, and certain cannons being shot off at his entry, some of the paper or other stuff wherewith one of them was stopped, did light on the thatch...
Pagina 20 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; .and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Pagina 32 - Sweet Swan of Avon! what a sight it were To see thee in our waters yet appear, And make those flights upon the banks of Thames, That so did take Eliza, and our James!
Pagina 31 - Yet must I not give nature all: thy art, My gentle Shakespeare, must enjoy a part. For though the poet's matter nature be. His art doth give the fashion ; and that he Who casts to write a living line, must sweat, (Such as thine are) and strike the second heat...
Pagina 27 - His wit was in his own power, would the rule of it had been so too. Many times he fell into those things, could not escape laughter: as when he said in the person of Caesar, one speaking to him, 'Caesar, thou dost me wrong.
Pagina 76 - Lady in generall termes, telling him what shee liked best in him, and prescribing his gesture in smiling, his apparaile, &c., and then when he came to practise making him believe they tooke him to be mad.
Pagina 31 - To whom all Scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of an age, but for all time...
Pagina 26 - I remember, the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been, Would he had blotted a thousand.
Pagina 70 - By and by we hear news of shipwreck in the same place, and then we are to blame if we accept it not for a rock. Upon the back of that comes out a hideous monster with fire and smoke, and then the miserable beholders are bound to take it for a cave. While in the mean time two armies fly in, represented with four swords and bucklers, and then what hard heart will not receive it for a pitched field?