Life of ShakespeareUniversity Society, 1901 - 206 páginas |
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... stage was concerned , there was no employment in town for Shake- speare during 1586 , when the theatres were closed owing to the prevalence of the plague . The traditional accounts of his first connection with the theatres are evidently ...
... stage was concerned , there was no employment in town for Shake- speare during 1586 , when the theatres were closed owing to the prevalence of the plague . The traditional accounts of his first connection with the theatres are evidently ...
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... stage - plays . In all probability the former was the scene of Shakespeare's earliest activity , in whatever capacity it may have been . Shakespeare may have belonged , from the first , to Lord Leicester's Company , of which we know he ...
... stage - plays . In all probability the former was the scene of Shakespeare's earliest activity , in whatever capacity it may have been . Shakespeare may have belonged , from the first , to Lord Leicester's Company , of which we know he ...
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... stage , and have his bones new embalmed with the tears of ten thousand spec- tators at least ( at several times ) , who in the tragedian that represents his person imagine they behold him fresh bleeding " ( cp . iv . 6 , 7 ) . With a ...
... stage , and have his bones new embalmed with the tears of ten thousand spec- tators at least ( at several times ) , who in the tragedian that represents his person imagine they behold him fresh bleeding " ( cp . iv . 6 , 7 ) . With a ...
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... stage ; for Comedy , witness his Gentlemen of Verona , his Errors , his Love's Labour's Lost , his Love's Labour's Won , his Midsummer - Night's Dream , and his Merchant of Venice ; for Tragedy , his Richard the II . , Richard the III ...
... stage ; for Comedy , witness his Gentlemen of Verona , his Errors , his Love's Labour's Lost , his Love's Labour's Won , his Midsummer - Night's Dream , and his Merchant of Venice ; for Tragedy , his Richard the II . , Richard the III ...
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... Stage- Quarrel between Ben Jonson and the so - called Poetasters ( cp . Preface to Troilus and Cressida ) . About this time , too , the boy - actors became exceedingly popular ( cp . Hamlet ii . 2 ) . They performed Cynthia's Revels ...
... Stage- Quarrel between Ben Jonson and the so - called Poetasters ( cp . Preface to Troilus and Cressida ) . About this time , too , the boy - actors became exceedingly popular ( cp . Hamlet ii . 2 ) . They performed Cynthia's Revels ...
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Página 11 - My hounds are bred out of the Spartan kind, So flew'd, so sanded ; and their heads are hung With ears that sweep away the morning dew ; Crook-knee'd, and dew-lapp'd like Thessalian bulls ; Slow in pursuit, but match'd in mouth like bells, Each under each.
Página 28 - Like to the senators of the antique Rome, With the plebeians swarming at their heels, Go forth and fetch their conquering Caesar in : As, by a lower but loving likelihood, Were now the general of our gracious empress, As in good time he may, from Ireland coming, Bringing rebellion broached on his sword, How many would the peaceful city quit, To welcome him ! much more, and much more cause, Did they this Harry.
Página 40 - Dis's waggon! daffodils That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath...
Página 21 - As Plautus and Seneca are accounted the best for Comedy and Tragedy among the Latins, so Shakespeare among the English is the most excellent in both kinds for the stage...
Página 8 - And though this, probably the first essay of his poetry, be lost, yet it is said to have been so very bitter, that it redoubled the prosecution against him to that degree, that he was obliged to leave his business and family in Warwickshire, for some time, and shelter himself in London.
Página 65 - 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,
Página 65 - 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," which they thought a malevolent speech.
Página 28 - A fool, a fool ! I met a fool i' the forest, A motley fool ; a miserable world ! As I do live by food, I met a fool ; Who laid him down and basked him in the sun, And railed on Lady Fortune in good terms, In good set terms, and yet a motley fool. ' Good morrow, fool,
Página 10 - If true, here only, and of delicious taste: Betwixt them lawns, or level downs, and flocks Grazing the tender herb, were interposed, Or palmy hillock, or the flowery lap Of some irriguous valley spread her store, Flowers of all hue, and without thorn the rose...
Página 22 - Fourth, that she commanded him to continue it for one play more, and to show him in love. This is said to be the occasion of his writing The Merry Wives of Windsor.