A Study of the Modern Drama: A Handbook for the Study and Appreciation of the Best Plays, European, English and American, of the Last Half CenturyD. Appleton, 1925 - 527 oldal |
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action actors American Arthur artist Ashley Dukes audience Bernard Shaw Boston Brander Matthews characters Chicago Chief Contemporary Dramatists Clark Clayton Hamilton Clyde Fitch Cohan comedy Contemporary Drama Contemporary Dramatists Boston conventional critic curtain dialogue Dickinson's Chief Contemporary Drama Cincinnati Dramas Boston dramatist Dublin Emperor Jones English Drama N. Y. Essays exposition F. W. Chandler French Galsworthy George Harry Leon Wilson Ibsen ideas includes the plays interesting Isaac Goldberg John Jones Lady Gregory last act Liliom literary Literature Ludwig Lewisohn Maeterlinck Maurice Maeterlinck Modern Drama N. Y. Molière Moses N. Y. no date novel novelist Oscar Wilde Pinero Plays Boston plays mentioned Plays N. Y. playwright plot Poet Lore preface Representative One-Act Plays Reprints in Collections says scene second act Stage N. Y. story Study Texts Theater N. Y. theatrical theme third act tion To-day tragedy trans translation W. B. Yeats William Archer Woman words written Yeats
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131. oldal - Tragedy, then, is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude; in language embellished with each kind of artistic ornament, the several kinds being found in separate parts of the play; in the form of action, not of narrative ; through pity and fear effecting the proper purgation of these emotions.
287. oldal - Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here; And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood, Stop up th...
242. oldal - I took the drama, the most objective form known to art, and made it as personal a mode of expression as the lyric or the sonnet; at the same time I widened its range and enriched its characterisation.
163. oldal - ... have grown to believe that he, motionless as he is, does yet live in reality a deeper, more human and more universal life than the lover who strangles his mistress, the captain who conquers in battle, or ' the husband who avenges his honour.
287. oldal - The effect and it! Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers, Wherever in your sightless substances You wait on nature's mischief! Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, To cry 'Hold, hold!
336. oldal - In poetical drama there is, it is held, an antithesis between character and lyric poetry, for lyric poetry — however much it move you when read out of a book — can, as these critics think, but encumber the action. Yet when we go back a few centuries and enter the great periods of drama...
275. oldal - A drama must be shaped so as to have a spire of meaning. Every grouping of life and character has its inherent moral; and the business of the dramatist is so to pose the group as to bring that moral poignantly to the light of day.
269. oldal - Tragedy endeavours, as far as possible, to confine itself to a single revolution of the sun, or but slightly to exceed this limit ; whereas the Epic action has no limits of time.
342. oldal - I think, is of importance, for in countries where the imagination of the people, and the language they use, is rich and living, it is possible for a writer to be rich and copious in his words, and at the same time to give the reality, which is the root of all poetry, in a comprehensive and natural form.
275. oldal - To set before the public no cut-and-dried codes, but the phenomena of life and character, selected and combined, but not distorted, by the dramatist's outlook, set down without fear, favour, or prejudice, leaving the public to draw such poor moral as nature may afford.