Shakespeare's Dramatic Art: History and Character of Shakespeare's Plays, Volume 2G. Bell and sons, 1895 |
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... piece , as I think , points to this even though but in indistinct and indefinite tones . By the choice of this curious title which stands apparently in no relation whatever to its substance , Shakspeare wishes to give us a hint as to ...
... piece , as I think , points to this even though but in indistinct and indefinite tones . By the choice of this curious title which stands apparently in no relation whatever to its substance , Shakspeare wishes to give us a hint as to ...
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... piece will , I think , prove this most clearly . We have two royal dukes , one of whom has unlawfully ( we are not told how ) driven the other from the throne ; the exiled Duke has thereupon fled into the Forest of Arden where , with ...
... piece will , I think , prove this most clearly . We have two royal dukes , one of whom has unlawfully ( we are not told how ) driven the other from the throne ; the exiled Duke has thereupon fled into the Forest of Arden where , with ...
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... piece ? And which is the internal bond that gathers together all the confused and strangely involved threads , forming them into one harmonious whole ? We must bear in mind that it is the comic view of life which here forms the basis of ...
... piece ? And which is the internal bond that gathers together all the confused and strangely involved threads , forming them into one harmonious whole ? We must bear in mind that it is the comic view of life which here forms the basis of ...
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... piece was intended to present itself to the spectators in any form • * Gervinus decides in favour of the first alternative , because the title does not suit his conception and interpretation of the drama , so that either his conception ...
... piece was intended to present itself to the spectators in any form • * Gervinus decides in favour of the first alternative , because the title does not suit his conception and interpretation of the drama , so that either his conception ...
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... . The point of the piece seems to me to lie in this contrast ; but care had to be taken not to make the point too pointed , not to make it a serious moral conflict . If Shakspeare wished to 16 BOOK V. SHAKSPEARE'S COMEDIES .
... . The point of the piece seems to me to lie in this contrast ; but care had to be taken not to make the point too pointed , not to make it a serious moral conflict . If Shakspeare wished to 16 BOOK V. SHAKSPEARE'S COMEDIES .
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Page 62 - twixt the green sea and the azur'd vault Set roaring war; to the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt...
Page 423 - All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily: when he describes anything, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning, give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned ; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Page 62 - Ye elves of hills, brooks, standing lakes, and groves ; And ye that on the sands with printless foot Do chase the ebbing Neptune, and do fly him, When he comes back ; you demi-puppets that By moonshine do the green sour ringlets make, Whereof the ewe not bites ; and you, whose pastime Is to make midnight mushrooms ; that rejoice To hear the solemn curfew...
Page 125 - I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano ; A stage, where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.
Page 334 - I am as sorry as if the original fault had been my fault, because myself have seen his demeanour no less civil than he excellent in the quality he professes: besides, divers of worship have reported his uprightness of dealing which argues his honesty, and his facetious grace in writing, that approves his art.
Page 420 - What needs my Shakespeare for his honoured bones, The labour of an age in piled stones ? Or that his hallowed relics should be hid Under a star-ypointing pyramid ? Dear son of memory, great heir of fame, What need'st thou such weak witness of thy name ? Thou in our wonder and astonishment Hast built thyself a livelong monument.
Page 435 - He sacrifices virtue to convenience, and is so much more careful to please than to instruct, that he seems to write without any moral purpose.
Page 158 - Could great men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet; For every pelting, petty officer Would use his heaven for thunder ; Nothing but thunder. Merciful Heaven ! Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak, Than the soft myrtle...
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Page 435 - It may be observed, that in many of his plays the latter part is evidently neglected. When he found himself near the end of his work, and in view of his reward, he shortened the labour to snatch the profit. He, therefore, remits his efforts where he should most vigorously exert them, and his catastrophe is improbably produced or imperfectly represented.