In Shakespeare's DayJames Vincent Cunningham Fawcett Publications, 1970 - 351 pages |
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Page 109
... represented as happening to a virtuous character ; for this raises disgust rather than terror or compassion . Neither should the con- trary change , from adversity to prosperity , be exhibited in a vicious character : this , of all ...
... represented as happening to a virtuous character ; for this raises disgust rather than terror or compassion . Neither should the con- trary change , from adversity to prosperity , be exhibited in a vicious character : this , of all ...
Page 118
... represented things conformably to truth , he may answer that he has represented them as they should be . This was the answer of Sophocles , that " he drew mankind such as they should be ; Euripides , such as they are . " And this is the ...
... represented things conformably to truth , he may answer that he has represented them as they should be . This was the answer of Sophocles , that " he drew mankind such as they should be ; Euripides , such as they are . " And this is the ...
Page 283
... represented . He had no regard to distinction of time or place , but gives to one age or nation , without scruple , the customs , institu- tions , and opinions of another , at the expense not only of likelihood but of possibility ...
... represented . He had no regard to distinction of time or place , but gives to one age or nation , without scruple , the customs , institu- tions , and opinions of another , at the expense not only of likelihood but of possibility ...
Contents
Introduction by J V Cunningham page | 11 |
Queen Elizabeth at Greenwich | 17 |
Julius Caesar at the Globe 1599 | 27 |
Copyright | |
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action actors appear audience Ben Jonson Burbage called character comedy comic Cordeilla Court criticism Cymbeline daughter death delight divers doth drama earl effect Elizabethan England English evil excellent fable fault fear feel fortune friends gentlemen Hamlet hath Henry hero honor humorous Iago imitation INGENIOSO J. V. Cunningham jests John John Marston jokes Jonson JUDICIO justice kind King King Lear ladies laugh Lear live London Lord Lord Chamberlain Macbeth Majesty manner matter means mind moral nature never night Othello passions persons pity play players pleasure plot poet poetry present Prince Queen reason Richard Richard III ridiculous Romeo and Juliet scene servants Shakespeare Shakespearean tragedy Simon Forman sort speak speech stage story theater thee thereof things Thomas Thomas Nashe thou thought tion tragic truth unto verse whole William Shakespeare words