A View of the English Stage: Or, A Series of Dramatic CriticismsCollected dramatic criticism by William Hazlitt, one of the highest regarded critic and essayists in the history of the English language. |
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... Macbeth Mr. Kean's Romeo 16 17 18 22 27 33 Mr. Kean's Iago 39 Mr. Kean's Richard II . 54 Mr. Kean's Zanga and Abel Drugger 59 " The Tempest " 62 " The School for Scandal " 66 Mrs. Alsop's Rosalind 68 Miss O'Neill's Elwina 70 Miss O ...
... Macbeth Mr. Kean's Romeo 16 17 18 22 27 33 Mr. Kean's Iago 39 Mr. Kean's Richard II . 54 Mr. Kean's Zanga and Abel Drugger 59 " The Tempest " 62 " The School for Scandal " 66 Mrs. Alsop's Rosalind 68 Miss O'Neill's Elwina 70 Miss O ...
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... Macbeth 133 Mr. Kemble's Retirement 134 THE ENGLISH STAGE- On Actors and Acting 144 On Play - Going and on some of our Old Actors 154 Minor Theatres - Strolling Players 168 Mr. Mathews at Home 179 Knowles ' Virginius 184 Mr. Farren ...
... Macbeth 133 Mr. Kemble's Retirement 134 THE ENGLISH STAGE- On Actors and Acting 144 On Play - Going and on some of our Old Actors 154 Minor Theatres - Strolling Players 168 Mr. Mathews at Home 179 Knowles ' Virginius 184 Mr. Farren ...
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... Macbeth ( see p . 133 ) , which appeared on June 8 , 1817 , and on June 25 , he con- tributed to the Times the article on Kemble's retirement ( see p . 134 ) , which closes the View of the English Stage . One other article from the ...
... Macbeth ( see p . 133 ) , which appeared on June 8 , 1817 , and on June 25 , he con- tributed to the Times the article on Kemble's retirement ( see p . 134 ) , which closes the View of the English Stage . One other article from the ...
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... Macbeth , for the wildness of the imagination , and the glowing rapidity of the action : Othello , for the progres- sive interest and rapid alternations of feeling : Hamlet , for perfect dramatic truth , and the unlooked - for develop ...
... Macbeth , for the wildness of the imagination , and the glowing rapidity of the action : Othello , for the progres- sive interest and rapid alternations of feeling : Hamlet , for perfect dramatic truth , and the unlooked - for develop ...
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... Macbeth , and of dismissing the guests at the banquet , were among her finest things . We have , many years ago , wept outright during the whole time of her playing Isabella , and this we take to have been a higher employment of the ...
... Macbeth , and of dismissing the guests at the banquet , were among her finest things . We have , many years ago , wept outright during the whole time of her playing Isabella , and this we take to have been a higher employment of the ...
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Page 217 - Pray, do not mock me : I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less ; And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind. Methinks I should know you, and know this man ; Yet I am doubtful...
Page 53 - Dangerous conceits are, in their natures, poisons, Which at the first are scarce found to distaste, But, with a little act upon the blood, Burn like the mines of sulphur.
Page 211 - Hear, nature, hear ; dear goddess, hear ! — Suspend thy purpose, if thou didst intend To make this creature fruitful ! Into her womb convey sterility ! Dry up in her the organs of increase ; And from her derogate body never spring A babe to honour her ! If she must teem, Create her child of spleen ; that it may live, And be a thwart disnatured torment to her...
Page 217 - Methinks I should know you and know this man; Yet I am doubtful; for I am mainly ignorant What place this is, and all the skill I have Remembers not these garments; nor I know not Where I did lodge last night. Do not laugh at me; For, as I am a man, I think this lady To be my child Cordelia.
Page 32 - I have liv'd long enough : my way of life Is fallen into the sear, the yellow leaf : And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have ; but, in their stead, Curses not loud, but deep, mouth-honour, breath, Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not.
Page 216 - Tom? whom the foul fiend hath led through fire and through flame, through ford and whirlpool, o'er bog and quagmire; that hath laid knives under his pillow, and halters in his pew...
Page 193 - Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heaven As make the angels weep.
Page 152 - The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together...
Page 82 - All school-days' friendship, childhood innocence? We, Hermia, like two artificial gods, Have with our needles created both one flower, Both on one sampler, sitting on one cushion, Both warbling of one song, both in one key; As if our hands, our sides, voices, and minds, Had been incorporate.
Page 88 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become 120 A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods...