Shakespeare and Dramatic Tradition: Essays in Honor of S.F. JohnsonUniversity of Delaware Press, 1989 - 307 стор. Eighteen new essays by respected critics on Shakespeare and his dramatic antecedents, contemporaries, and successors, offering an up-to-date survey-history of Renaissance theater and examples of scholarly and critical methodology. |
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Coriolanus and a Shakespearean Motif | 47 |
Conflicting Views toward Art | 69 |
The Problem of Context in Interpretation | 88 |
Theatrical Plots and Elizabethan Stage Practice | 109 |
An Elizabethan Playbook and Its Implications | 125 |
The Versatility of Shakespeares Actors | 144 |
The Polemical Drama of John Bale | 194 |
Auspices and Theatricality | 211 |
Monteverdi and the Immorality of Art | 227 |
Divine Right and Divine Retribution in Beaumont and Fletchers The Maids Tragedy | 246 |
The Authority of Honor in Lopes El castigo sin venganza | 264 |
English Style French Style | 276 |
The Premiere of Davenants Adaptation of Macbeth | 286 |
Biographical Note on S F Johnson | 294 |
Edmund Kean Onstage Onstage | 151 |
The Humanist and the Artist | 168 |
The Wife of Noah in the Chester York and Towneley Cycles | 181 |
List of Contributors | 296 |
Index | 299 |
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Shakespeare and Dramatic Tradition: Essays in Honor of S.F. Johnson Samuel Frederick Johnson Перегляд фрагмента - 1989 |
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Сторінка 25 - That light we see is burning in my hall. How far that little candle throws his beams ! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
Сторінка 98 - A SLUMBER did my spirit seal ; •^*- I had no human fears : She seemed a thing that could not feel The touch of earthly years. No motion has she now, no force ; She neither hears nor sees ; Rolled round in earth's diurnal course, With rocks, and stones, and trees.
Сторінка 288 - The Tragedy of Macbeth, alter'd by Sir William Davenant; being drest in all it's Finery, as new Cloath's, new Scenes, Machines, as flyings for the Witches ; with all the Singing and Dancing in it : THE first Compos'd by Mr.
Сторінка 24 - The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils; The motions of his spirit are dull as night And his affections dark as Erebus: Let no such man be trusted.
Сторінка 23 - How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank ! Here will we sit and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica. Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold.
Сторінка 65 - I'll never Be such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand, As if a man were author of himself And knew no other kin.
Сторінка 68 - Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake.
Сторінка 150 - The height of their ambition is to be beside themselves. To-day kings, to-morrow beggars, it is only when they are themselves that they are nothing. Made up of mimic laughter and tears, passing from the extremes of joy or woe at the prompter's call, they wear the livery of ether men's fortunes ; their very thoughts are not their own.
Сторінка 53 - Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
Сторінка 287 - I have seen it often, yet is it one of the best plays for a stage, and variety of dancing and musique, that ever I saw.