History of the London Stage and Its Famous Players (1576-1903): With 10 Portraits Engraved on CopperGeorge Routledge and Sons, 1904 - 557 oldal |
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viii. oldal
... drama of the day I could scarcely refer to the enormous influence which Ibsen has exercised upon the work of Messrs ... dramatic literature of Europe . The edition of 1889 has been thoroughly revised , the original text pruned , a great ...
... drama of the day I could scarcely refer to the enormous influence which Ibsen has exercised upon the work of Messrs ... dramatic literature of Europe . The edition of 1889 has been thoroughly revised , the original text pruned , a great ...
3. oldal
... drama , were represented in churches or on wooden movable plat- forms raised in the market places ; but from Henry the Seventh's reign , when a passion for dramatic amusements began to develop among all classes , to the earlier years of ...
... drama , were represented in churches or on wooden movable plat- forms raised in the market places ; but from Henry the Seventh's reign , when a passion for dramatic amusements began to develop among all classes , to the earlier years of ...
4. oldal
... drama , as we understand the term , was not yet born ; Marlowe , the first of the great dramatists , did not produce ... dramatic works in the English language that have any claim to be styled comedy and tragedy , were written at a much ...
... drama , as we understand the term , was not yet born ; Marlowe , the first of the great dramatists , did not produce ... dramatic works in the English language that have any claim to be styled comedy and tragedy , were written at a much ...
5. oldal
... drama that have descended to us , we can form a tolerably accurate idea of the dramatic portion of the entertain- ment given at the earliest theatres . At the Theatre there was a movable stage for dramatic performances , but the ...
... drama that have descended to us , we can form a tolerably accurate idea of the dramatic portion of the entertain- ment given at the earliest theatres . At the Theatre there was a movable stage for dramatic performances , but the ...
8. oldal
... drama . Marlowe , Greene , and Peele had done their work and passed away ; Shakespeare had written his earlier plays , and , ere the century closed , Ben 1 The Bear Garden survived even the Puritan rule , and continued to flourish until ...
... drama . Marlowe , Greene , and Peele had done their work and passed away ; Shakespeare had written his earlier plays , and , ere the century closed , Ben 1 The Bear Garden survived even the Puritan rule , and continued to flourish until ...
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History of the London Stage and Its Famous Players (1576-1903) Henry Barton Baker Nincs elérhető előnézet - 2015 |
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166. oldal - AN opera may be allowed to be extravagantly lavish in its decorations, as its only design is to gratify the senses, and keep up an indolent attention in the audience. Common sense, however, requires, that there should be nothing in the scenes and machines, which may appear childish and absurd. How would the wits of King Charles's time have laughed to have seen Nicolini exposed to a tempest in robes of ermine, and sailing in an open boat upon a sea of pasteboard? What a field of raillery would they...
487. oldal - You would have thought the very windows spake, So many greedy looks of young and old Through casements darted their desiring eyes Upon his visage, and that all the walls With painted imagery had said at once 'Jesu preserve thee! welcome, Bolingbroke! Whilst he, from one side to the other turning, Bare-headed, lower than his proud steed's neck, Bespake them thus: 'I thank you, countrymen...
40. oldal - Near these a Nursery erects its head, Where queens are formed, and future heroes bred; Where unfledged actors learn to laugh and cry,| Where infant punks their tender voices try, And little Maximins the gods defy.
446. oldal - There is the strangest thing in it that ever I have seen on the stage — the boy Pippo, by Miss Wilton. While it is astonishingly impudent (must be, or it couldn't be done at all), it is so stupendously like a boy, and unlike a woman, that it is perfectly free from offence.
163. oldal - ... occasioned such an undulation, from the voice of every actor, that generally what they said sounded like the gabbling of so many people in the lofty aisles in a cathedral.
9. oldal - English bull-dogs, but not without great risk to the dogs, from the horns of the one, and the teeth of the other; and it sometimes happens they are killed upon the spot; fresh ones are immediately supplied in the places of those that are wounded or tired.
5. oldal - Those who go to Paris Garden, the Bell Savage,* or The Theatre, to behold bear baiting, interludes or fence play, must not account of any pleasant spectacle unless first they pay one penny at the gate, another at the entry of the scaffold, and a third for a quiet standing.
167. oldal - Every limb, and every finger, contributes to the part he acts, insomuch that a deaf man might go along with him in the sense of it. There is scarce a beautiful posture in an old statue which he does not plant himself in, as the different circumstances of the story give occasion for it.
166. oldal - At length the audience grew tired of understanding half the opera ; and therefore, to ease themselves entirely of the fatigue of thinking, have so ordered it at present, that the whole opera is performed in an unknown tongue.
26. oldal - Now ye shall have three ladies walk to gather flowers, and then we must believe the stage to be a garden. By and by we hear news of shipwreck in the same place, and then we are to blame if we accept it not for a rock. Upon the back of that comes out a hideous monster, with fire and smoke, and then the miserable beholders are bound to take it for a cave. While in the meantime two armies fly in, represented with four swords and bucklers, and then what hard heart will not receive it for a pitched field?