The Old Drama and the New: An Essay in Re-valuationSmall, Maynard, 1923 - 396 pagina's |
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Pagina 11
... Cæsar as John Drink- water has depicted the life and death of Abraham Lincoln ! Antiquity never rose ( I say deliberately rose , not sank ) to anything like the sober , unexaggerated portrayal of con- temporary character on the stage ...
... Cæsar as John Drink- water has depicted the life and death of Abraham Lincoln ! Antiquity never rose ( I say deliberately rose , not sank ) to anything like the sober , unexaggerated portrayal of con- temporary character on the stage ...
Pagina 14
... Cæsar would not have called Terence a " half Menander , " but a quarter or an eighth part of the master . If I am right in believing that Menander did not portray the social , fashionable and intellectual life of Athens with anything ...
... Cæsar would not have called Terence a " half Menander , " but a quarter or an eighth part of the master . If I am right in believing that Menander did not portray the social , fashionable and intellectual life of Athens with anything ...
Pagina 87
... Cæsar or Antony and Cleopatra , how stiff , how cumbrous , how ele- phantine it seems ! We all know how Fuller compared Jon- son to a great Spanish galleon and Shakespeare to an English man - of - war . But I think the past years have ...
... Cæsar or Antony and Cleopatra , how stiff , how cumbrous , how ele- phantine it seems ! We all know how Fuller compared Jon- son to a great Spanish galleon and Shakespeare to an English man - of - war . But I think the past years have ...
Pagina 104
... Cæsar and Antony and Cleopatra . The great tragedies , from Romeo and Juliet to Lear , are great , not merely through his handling , but in virtue of the inherent magnitude of their matter . * As we look through the trage- dies of his ...
... Cæsar and Antony and Cleopatra . The great tragedies , from Romeo and Juliet to Lear , are great , not merely through his handling , but in virtue of the inherent magnitude of their matter . * As we look through the trage- dies of his ...
Pagina 126
... Cæsar and Cleopatra , there are passages of true dramatic invention and power . But on the whole , Mr. Shaw lacks the power of projection which marks the born dramatist . He cannot throw his characters outside himself . He cannot cut ...
... Cæsar and Cleopatra , there are passages of true dramatic invention and power . But on the whole , Mr. Shaw lacks the power of projection which marks the born dramatist . He cannot throw his characters outside himself . He cannot cut ...
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Pagina 386 - Come, let's away to prison : We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage : When thou dost ask me blessing I'll kneel down And ask of thee forgiveness...
Pagina 77 - I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am ; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well ; Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought Perplex'd in the extreme ; of one whose hand, Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away Richer than all his tribe...
Pagina 9 - O, now, for ever Farewell, the tranquil mind ! farewell, content ! Farewell, the plumed troop, and the big wars, That make ambition virtue ! O, farewell ! Farewell, the neighing steed, and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, The royal banner ; and all quality, Pride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war...
Pagina 9 - O, wither'd is the garland of the war, The soldier's pole is fall'n : young boys and girls Are level now with men ; the odds is gone, And there is nothing left remarkable Beneath the visiting moon.
Pagina 58 - I'll tell thee a miracle ; I am not mad yet, to my cause of sorrow. The heaven o'er my head seems made of molten brass, The earth of flaming sulphur, yet I am not mad.
Pagina 83 - Yet I glory More in the cunning purchase of my wealth, Than in the glad possession, since I gain No common way; I use no trade, no venture; I wound no earth with ploughshares...
Pagina 163 - Final destruction seize on all the world ! Bend down, ye heavens, and shutting round this earth, Crush the vile globe into its first confusion...
Pagina 84 - But cocker up my genius, and live free To all delights my fortune calls me to ? I have no wife, no parent, child, ally, To give my substance to ; but whom I make Must be my heir: and this makes men observe me: This...
Pagina 67 - Tis less than to be born ; a lasting sleep, A quiet resting from all jealousy ; A thing we all pursue. I know, besides, , It is but giving over of a game That must be lost Phi.
Pagina 146 - I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.