The Shakespearian Drama: A Commentary. The comediesSigma, 1887 - 595 pàgines |
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action Antonio appears Ariel Bassanio becomes Benedick bring brought Caliban called caprice character Claudio clowns collision Comedy of Errors Comedy of Situation comic conflict Cymbeline daughter deception deed delusion destroyed disguise Duke element existence external fact Fairy Fairy-land Family father flight Forest of Arden Gentlemen of Verona gives guilt harmony Helena hence Hermione Hero highest husband ideal realm idyllic Imogen individual institutions internal justice King Leontes Love's Labor's Lost lovers Malvolio manifest marriage means mediated dramas mediatorial ment Mercy namely nature object Olivia parent passion pastoral person phases play Poet Poet's poetic poetry Polixenes Portia portrayed Posthumus principle Prospero punishment purpose rational Real World reconciliation relation repentance restoration Rosalind second movement second thread seems Shakespeare shows Shylock Sicilia side society spirit suitors supreme comic takes Theseus thought tion tragic trait true unity Viola violation whole wholly wife Winter's Tale woman wrong
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Pàgina 242 - If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility? revenge : If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example ? why, revenge. The villainy you teach me I will execute ; and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction.
Pàgina 273 - Happy in this, she is not yet so old But she may learn; happier than this, She is not bred so dull but she can learn ; Happiest of all is, that her gentle spirit Commits itself to yours to be directed, As from her lord, her governor, her king.
Pàgina 242 - If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility ? revenge : If a Christian wrong a Jew, what should his sufferance be by Christian example ? why, revenge. The villainy, you teach me, I will execute; and it shall go hard, but I will better the instruction.
Pàgina 142 - At our feast we had a play called ' Twelfth Night or What you Will, much like the Comedy of Errors or Menechmi in Plautus, but most like and near to that in Italian called Inganni.
Pàgina 352 - Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven. And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, And then from hour to hour we rot and rot; And thereby hangs a tale.
Pàgina 493 - I told you what would come of this : beseech you, Of your own state take care : this dream of mine, — Being now awake, I'll queen it no inch farther, But milk my ewes and weep.
Pàgina 582 - A devil, a born devil, on whose nature Nurture can never stick ; on whom my pains, Humanely taken, all, all lost, quite lost ; And as, with age, his body uglier grows, So his mind cankers.
Pàgina 109 - O spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou, That, notwithstanding thy capacity Receiveth as the sea, nought enters there, Of what validity and pitch soe'er, But falls into abatement and low price, Even in a minute; so full of shapes is fancy, That it alone is high fantastical.
Pàgina 573 - And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made of, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep. " It is just this finite world which is so full of conflict and has caused him so much trouble. No wonder, then, that he almost curses it, and announces its utter perishability....
Pàgina 150 - She was so well pleased with that admirable character of Falstaff, in The Two Parts of Henry the Fourth, that she commanded him to continue it for one play more, and to shew him in love. This is said to be the occasion of his writing The Merry Wives of Windsor.