Lyrics from the Dramatists of the Elizabethan AgeArthur Henry Bullen |
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Page vii
... plays masques , and pageants of the Elizabethan age , allowing myself the usual privilege of construing the word " Elizabethan ” in an elastic sense , so as to include all who " trafficked with the stage " in the days of James I. and ...
... plays masques , and pageants of the Elizabethan age , allowing myself the usual privilege of construing the word " Elizabethan ” in an elastic sense , so as to include all who " trafficked with the stage " in the days of James I. and ...
Page viii
... plays . In those days publishers fre- quently omitted songs when they put plays to press . Marston's plays , for instance , have come down with- out any of the songs , though the stage - directions show that songs were provided in ...
... plays . In those days publishers fre- quently omitted songs when they put plays to press . Marston's plays , for instance , have come down with- out any of the songs , though the stage - directions show that songs were provided in ...
Page ix
... plays , but relieved the tedium of their romances by frequent lyrical interludes . Greene's romances and love - pamphlets are insipid reading ; but the poetry interspersed is frequently excellent . There is no sweeter cradle - song than ...
... plays , but relieved the tedium of their romances by frequent lyrical interludes . Greene's romances and love - pamphlets are insipid reading ; but the poetry interspersed is frequently excellent . There is no sweeter cradle - song than ...
Page xi
... Ronsard's example . Though Peele's plays have but a dusty anti- quarian interest , his songs are as fresh as the flowers in May . He was a shifty rogue , accord- ing to the traditional account ; but the author of INTRODUCTION . xi.
... Ronsard's example . Though Peele's plays have but a dusty anti- quarian interest , his songs are as fresh as the flowers in May . He was a shifty rogue , accord- ing to the traditional account ; but the author of INTRODUCTION . xi.
Page xii
... play , The Hunting of Cupid , which was licensed for the press in 1591 . Thomas Nashe , " ingenious , ingenuous , fluent , facetious T. Nashe , " was very serious at times . Witness his Christ's Tears over Jerusalem , that woe- ful cry ...
... play , The Hunting of Cupid , which was licensed for the press in 1591 . Thomas Nashe , " ingenious , ingenuous , fluent , facetious T. Nashe , " was very serious at times . Witness his Christ's Tears over Jerusalem , that woe- ful cry ...
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