Shakespeare and Classical Antiquity: Greek and Latin Antiquity as Presented in Shakespeare's Plays (crowned by the French Academy).C. Kegan Paul & Company, 1880 - 483 páginas |
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... Plautus ; " Troilus and Cressida , " in which the per- sonages are those of Homer in the " Iliad ; " " Timon of Athens ; " " Coriolanus ; " " Julius Caesar ; " and " Antony and Cleopatra . " But even these six plays bear but a very ...
... Plautus ; " Troilus and Cressida , " in which the per- sonages are those of Homer in the " Iliad ; " " Timon of Athens ; " " Coriolanus ; " " Julius Caesar ; " and " Antony and Cleopatra . " But even these six plays bear but a very ...
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... Plautus was acted before the court , and there is reason to believe that the representation was in Latin , as it was given in honour of four French hostages left in England for the performance of the treaty re- lating to the surrender ...
... Plautus was acted before the court , and there is reason to believe that the representation was in Latin , as it was given in honour of four French hostages left in England for the performance of the treaty re- lating to the surrender ...
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... Plautus appeared in 1595 , with no other information as to its author than two initial letters " W. W. " The " Iliad " was published in Greek in 1591 , " The Knights " of Aristophanes in 1593 , and Chapman's celebrated translation of ...
... Plautus appeared in 1595 , with no other information as to its author than two initial letters " W. W. " The " Iliad " was published in Greek in 1591 , " The Knights " of Aristophanes in 1593 , and Chapman's celebrated translation of ...
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... Plautus , Terence , and Seneca . From the time that this partial knowledge of the classics began to spread in England a sensible improve- ment may be remarked in its dramatic art . In the reign of Edward VI . or of Mary — the exact date ...
... Plautus , Terence , and Seneca . From the time that this partial knowledge of the classics began to spread in England a sensible improve- ment may be remarked in its dramatic art . In the reign of Edward VI . or of Mary — the exact date ...
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... Plautus too light . For the law of writ , and the liberty , these are the only men . " This farrago of nonsense is uttered by a pompous and foolish old person , and the poet's intention is evidently ironical , but his irony is not ...
... Plautus too light . For the law of writ , and the liberty , these are the only men . " This farrago of nonsense is uttered by a pompous and foolish old person , and the poet's intention is evidently ironical , but his irony is not ...
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Shakespeare and Classical Antiquity: Greek and Latin Antiquity as Presented ... Paul Stapfer Vista de fragmentos - 1970 |
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Página 53 - What things have we seen Done at the Mermaid! heard words that have been So nimble, and so full of subtle flame, As if that every one (from whence they came) Had. meant to put his whole wit in a jest, And had resolved to live a fool the rest Of his dull life...
Página 459 - I' the commonwealth I would by contraries Execute all things ; for no kind of traffic Would I admit ; no name of magistrate ; Letters should not be known : riches, poverty, And use of service, none ; contract, succession, Bourn, bound of land, tilth, vineyard, none : No use of metal, corn, or wine, or oil : No occupation ; all men idle, all ; And women too ; but innocent and pure : No sovereignty : — Seb.
Página 84 - There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins ; Such harmony is in immortal souls, But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it. — THE MERCHANT OF VENICE Enter Musicians Come, ho, and wake Diana with a hymn ; With sweetest touches pierce your mistress' ear, And draw her home with music.
Página 328 - This was the noblest Roman of them all : All the conspirators, save only he, Did that they did in envy of great Caesar ; He only, in a general honest thought And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, " This was a man !
Página 456 - Be brave, then; for your captain is brave, and vows reformation. There shall be in England seven halfpenny loaves sold for a penny: the three-hooped pot; shall have ten hoops and I will make it felony to drink small beer...
Página 57 - O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention ! A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene ! Then should the warlike Harry, like himself, Assume the port of Mars ; and, at his heels, Leash'd in like hounds, should famine, sword, and fire, Crouch for employment.
Página 311 - Caesar carelessly but nod on him. He had a fever when he was in Spain, And, when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake: 'tis true, this god did shake ! His coward lips did from their colour fly ; And that same eye, whose bend doth awe the world, Did lose his lustre : I did hear him groan ; Ay, and that tongue of his, that bade the Romans Mark him, and write his speeches in their books, Alas ! it cried, Give me some drink, Titinius, As a sick girl.
Página 50 - 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?
Página 307 - In the most high and palmy state of Rome, A little ere the mightiest Julius fell, The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets...
Página 193 - Trojan legends were never held in higher honour than at the end of the fifteenth and beginning of the sixteenth centuries.