Introduction to ShakespeareBlackie & Son, 1893 - 136 pagine |
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Pagina 122
... actor , something of a scholar's feeling for precision of detail in the representation of a play and in the arrangements of the stage . He had the EDMUND KEAN . 123 disadvantage of a weak voice ; 122 INTRODUCTION TO SHAKESPEARE .
... actor , something of a scholar's feeling for precision of detail in the representation of a play and in the arrangements of the stage . He had the EDMUND KEAN . 123 disadvantage of a weak voice ; 122 INTRODUCTION TO SHAKESPEARE .
Pagina 123
... Kean's genius . For sheer force of that which can only be conferred by divine gift - genius in the ex- position of passion - Kean probably ranks highest among all actors of our English race . Each of his greater renderings of ...
... Kean's genius . For sheer force of that which can only be conferred by divine gift - genius in the ex- position of passion - Kean probably ranks highest among all actors of our English race . Each of his greater renderings of ...
Pagina 124
... Kean , and one of the most memorable in the history of the English stage . At length his opportunity had come ; on that evening he appeared at Drury Lane in the character of Shylock . As he trudged on foot through snow and fog to the ...
... Kean , and one of the most memorable in the history of the English stage . At length his opportunity had come ; on that evening he appeared at Drury Lane in the character of Shylock . As he trudged on foot through snow and fog to the ...
Pagina 125
... Kean enacted for the first time the part of King Lear . He had studied and rehearsed with ardour ; on one occasion he played scene after scene before the pier - glass from midnight to noonday ; in order to qualify himself for the re ...
... Kean enacted for the first time the part of King Lear . He had studied and rehearsed with ardour ; on one occasion he played scene after scene before the pier - glass from midnight to noonday ; in order to qualify himself for the re ...
Pagina 126
... Kean . " Who " , asks his biographer , Hawkins , " that once heard can ever forget the terrors of that terrific curse , where , in the wild storm of his conflicting passion , he threw him- self on his knees , ' lifted up his arms , like ...
... Kean . " Who " , asks his biographer , Hawkins , " that once heard can ever forget the terrors of that terrific curse , where , in the wild storm of his conflicting passion , he threw him- self on his knees , ' lifted up his arms , like ...
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Pagina 64 - This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea...
Pagina 10 - What years, i' faith? Vio. About your years, my lord. DUKE. Too old, by heaven : let still the woman take An elder than herself : so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart...
Pagina 31 - Master Jonson (like the former) was built far higher in learning ; solid, but slow in his performances. Shakespeare, with the English man of war, lesser in bulk, but lighter in sailing, could turn with all tides, tack about, and take advantage of all winds, by the quickness of his wit and invention.
Pagina 19 - I am as sorry as if the original fault had been my fault, because myself have seen his demeanour no less civil than he excellent in the quality he professes: besides, divers of worship have reported his uprightness of dealing which argues his honesty, and his facetious grace in writing, that approves his art.
Pagina 136 - The First part of the Contention betwixt the two famous Houses of Yorke and Lancaster...
Pagina 132 - Soul of the age! The applause, delight, the wonder of our stage! My Shakespeare, rise! I will not lodge thee by Chaucer, or Spenser, or bid Beaumont lie A little further, to make thee a room: Thou are a monument without a tomb, And art alive still while thy book doth live And we have wits to read and praise to give.
Pagina 97 - This therefore is the praise of Shakespeare, that his drama is the mirror of life; that he who has mazed his imagination, in following the phantoms which other writers raise up before him, may here be cured of his delirious ecstacies, by reading human sentiments in human language, by scenes from which a hermit may estimate the transactions of the world, and a confessor predict the progress of the passions.
Pagina 18 - Yes, trust them not: for there is an upstart Crow, beautified with our feathers, that with his Tygers heart wrapt in a Players hide, supposes he is as well able to bumbast out a blanke verse as the best of you: and being an absolute Johannes fac totum, is in his owne conceit the onely Shakescene in a countrie.
Pagina 129 - We have but collected them, and done an office to the dead, to procure his orphans guardians; without ambition either of self-profit or fame ; only to keep the memory of so worthy a friend and fellow alive as was our Shakespeare, by humble ofier of his plays to your most noble patronage.
Pagina 74 - But there seems to have been a period of Shakspeare's life when his heart was ill at ease, and ill content with the world or his own conscience ; the memory of hours misspent, the pang of affection mis-placed or unrequited, the experience of man's worser nature, which intercourse with ill-chosen...