Shakspeare's Dramatic Art: And His Relation to Calderon and Goethe, 2. köideChapman, brothers, 1876 - 554 pages |
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... closely followed Bandello . And yet Shakspeare might also have become acquainted with the main features of the story from Belleforest's French translation in his Histoires Tragiques . J. Klein , in his excellent history of the drama ...
... closely followed Bandello . And yet Shakspeare might also have become acquainted with the main features of the story from Belleforest's French translation in his Histoires Tragiques . J. Klein , in his excellent history of the drama ...
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... closely , we shall at once have to admit that such things as the play presents , do not and could not happen in actual experience ; that such a romantic mode of life in the loneliness of a forest is but a poetical dream ; that , in fact ...
... closely , we shall at once have to admit that such things as the play presents , do not and could not happen in actual experience ; that such a romantic mode of life in the loneliness of a forest is but a poetical dream ; that , in fact ...
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... closely blended with the Natural and the Real , that the one cannot become clear if the other is not also explained . To leave the dramas uninterpreted would be to acknowledge them mere tales or fairy tales . But mere fairy tales they ...
... closely blended with the Natural and the Real , that the one cannot become clear if the other is not also explained . To leave the dramas uninterpreted would be to acknowledge them mere tales or fairy tales . But mere fairy tales they ...
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... closely connected with the Real , and what is its sym- bolical significance in this connection . The different manner in which Shakspeare treats the Wonderful in tragedy and comedy is very remarkable . If we examine the strange forms of ...
... closely connected with the Real , and what is its sym- bolical significance in this connection . The different manner in which Shakspeare treats the Wonderful in tragedy and comedy is very remarkable . If we examine the strange forms of ...
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... closely into the Shakspearian idea of comedy in general , and its affinity to the fantastic , it will , in the first place , lead us to discover the general significance of the Wonderful in his comedies . Man , in his folly and ...
... closely into the Shakspearian idea of comedy in general , and its affinity to the fantastic , it will , in the first place , lead us to discover the general significance of the Wonderful in his comedies . Man , in his folly and ...
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Page 415 - 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 326 - 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 117 - I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano ; A stage, where every man must play a part, And mine a sad one.
Page 412 - 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 149 - Alas ! alas ! Why, all the souls that were, were forfeit once; And He that might the vantage best have took, Found out the remedy: How would you be, If he, which is the top of judgment, should But judge you as you are? O, think on that; And mercy then will breathe within your lips, Like man new made.
Page 427 - 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 427 - It is from this wide extension of design that so much instruction is derived. It is this which fills the plays of Shakespeare with practical axioms and domestic wisdom. It was said of Euripides that every verse was a precept; and it may be said of Shakespeare that from his works may be collected a system of civil and economical prudence.
Page 428 - His histories, being neither tragedies nor comedies, are not subject to any of their laws; nothing more is necessary to all the praise which they expect than that the changes of action be so prepared as to be understood, that the incidents be various and affecting, and the characters consistent, natural, and distinct. No other unity is intended, and therefore none is to be sought.
Page 150 - Merciful Heaven ! Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak Than the soft myrtle. 0 but man, proud man ! Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, As make the angels weep.
Page 150 - 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.