The Nature and State of the English Drama: A Lecture Delivered at a Meeting of the Syncretic Association, at the Gallery of British Artists, Suffolk Street, on Thursday, January 28th, 1841C. Mitchell, 1841 - 24 pagine |
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actor and author allegorical amusement ancient Art and Literature audience Authors and actors BELL YARD BEQUEST OF EVERT bon-mot BRIEF VIEW Burlettas century class of drama classical Collier Coventry derived divine DRAMATIC ART dramatists Drury-lane duced earliest ecclesiastics effect elevating the present ENGLISH DRAMA esteemed exercise existence F. G. TOMLINS farce FLEET STREET forsake genius GEORGE STEPHENS Gregory Nazianzen guilds of artisans highest faculties honour human imagination imperishable indisputably proved individual intellect Interludes invented kind of drama Lecture London Lucifer manager mankind melodrame mental labour mind miracle plays MITCHELL Moralities nature never noble Old English operates original Pantomime passion PAST AND PRESENT patent theatres Peele piece poet's poetry produced published QUEEN OF HUNGARY RED LION COURT regular representations rhapsodical risk scripture characters Shakespeare Shakespearian soul stage stipulated salary success Suggestions for elevating Tamburlaine taste TEMPLE BAR theatrical exhibitions thing tion Tragedy visionary vivifying WILLIAM STEVENS writers
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Pagina 4 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide ; To lose good days that might be better spent ; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow ; To feed on hope ; to pine with fear and sorrow ; To have thy Prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Pagina 4 - To have thy asking, yet wait many years; To fret thy soul with crosses and with cares ; To eat thy heart through comfortless despairs; To fawn, to crouch, to wait, to ride, to run, To spend, to give, to want, to be undone.
Pagina 24 - ... mean ; if they unite hundreds in a sympathetic admiration of virtue, abhorrence of vice, or derision of folly, it will remain to be shown how far the spectator is more criminally engaged, than if he had passed the evening in the idle gossip of society ; in the feverish pursuits of ambition ; or in the unsated and insatiable struggle after gain — "the graver employments of the present life, but equally unconnected with our existence hereafter.
Pagina 11 - Chronicle, &c. prevailed. The same correct writer, quoted above, has justly observed, that " in judging of the form, incidents, and language of these productions, we must of course carry our minds back to the period when they were written or represented; we shall then find that much that now seems absurd, ludicrous, or profane, was then pious, awful, and impressive.
Pagina 24 - Such an arrangement might indeed be objected to by those who entertain a holy horror of the very name of a Theatre ; and who imagine impiety and blasphemy are inseparable from the Drama. We have no room left to argue with such persons, or we might endeavour to prove that the dramatic art is in itself as capable of being directed either to right or wrong purposes, as the art of printing.
Pagina 24 - Being, who claimed the seventh day as his own, allotted the other six days of the week for purposes merely human. When the necessity of daily labour is removed, and the call of social duty fulfilled, that of moderate and timely amusement claims its place, as a want inherent in our nature. To relieve this want, and fill up the mental vacancy, games are devised, books are written, music is composed, spectacles and plays are invented and exhibited.
Pagina 24 - ... place, as a want inherent in our nature. To relieve this want, and fill up the mental vacancy, games are devised, books are written, music is composed, spectacles and plays are invented and exhibited. And if these last have a moral and virtuous tendency ; if the sentiments expressed...
Pagina 13 - Moral-play, is a drama, the characters of which are allegorical, abstract, or symbolical, and the story of which is intended to convey a lesson for the better conduct of human life.
Pagina 24 - We have no room left to argue with such persons ; or we might endeavour to prove, that the dramatic art is in itself as capable of being directed either to right or wrong purposes, as the art of printing. It is true, that even after a play has been formed upon the most virtuous model, the man who is engaged in the duties of religion will be better employed than he who is seated in a theatre, and listening to the performance.
Pagina 12 - My sete shalle be there as was his. Say, felows, how semys now me To sit in seyte of trynyty ? I am so bright of ich a lym I trow me seme as welle as hym.