The Round Table: Characters of Shakespear's PlaysJ.M. Dent & Sons, 1960 - 366 pages |
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Page 153
... stage is an epitome , a bettered likeness of the world , with the dull part left out : and , indeed , with this omission , it is nearly big enough to hold all the rest . What brings the resemblance nearer is , that , as they imitate us ...
... stage is an epitome , a bettered likeness of the world , with the dull part left out : and , indeed , with this omission , it is nearly big enough to hold all the rest . What brings the resemblance nearer is , that , as they imitate us ...
Page 156
... stage , and all the men and women merely players . ' ON THE SAME IT has been considered as the misfortune of first - rate talents for the stage , that they leave no record behind them except that of vague rumour , and that the genius of ...
... stage , and all the men and women merely players . ' ON THE SAME IT has been considered as the misfortune of first - rate talents for the stage , that they leave no record behind them except that of vague rumour , and that the genius of ...
Page 299
... stage before he comes forward to address Lady Anne , is one of the most graceful and striking ever witnessed on the stage . It would do for Titian to paint . The frequent and rapid transition of his voice from the expression of the ...
... stage before he comes forward to address Lady Anne , is one of the most graceful and striking ever witnessed on the stage . It would do for Titian to paint . The frequent and rapid transition of his voice from the expression of the ...
Contents
On the Love of Life | 1 |
On Modern Comedy | 7 |
On Mr Keans Iago | 14 |
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actor admiration affections Apemantus appear beauty Beggar's Opera Boccacio Cæsar Caliban character circumstances comedy common contempt Coriolanus critic CYMBELINE death delight Desdemona doth dramatic equal excited eyes Falstaff fame fancy favour fear feeling folly fool friends genius give Gonerill good-natured grace hath hear heart heaven Henry honour Hubert human humour Iago idea imagination indifference interest Julius Cæsar king lady Lear live look lord Macbeth Malvolio manner Marriage a-la-Mode MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM mind mistress moral nature never noble objects opinion Othello painted painter passages passion persons picture play pleasure poet poetry Prince principle reason refinement Regan Rembrandt Richard Richard II ROMEO AND JULIET scene seems sense sentiment Shakespear shew soul speak spirit stage sweet sympathy taste Tatler tenderness thee things thou art thought Titian Titus Andronicus tragedy true truth whole words writer youth