The Elizabethan Dramatists as CriticsPhilosophical Library, 1963 - 420 pages |
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Page 135
... Richard Flecknoe expatiates along the same line on the prov- ince and qualifications of the playwright in his Discourse of the English Stage : Of all arts that of the dramatic poet is the most difficult and most subject to censure ; for ...
... Richard Flecknoe expatiates along the same line on the prov- ince and qualifications of the playwright in his Discourse of the English Stage : Of all arts that of the dramatic poet is the most difficult and most subject to censure ; for ...
Page 146
... Richard Flecknoe in his A Dis- course of the English Stage : There are few of our English plays ( excepting only some few of Jonson's ) without some faults or other ; and if the French have fewer than our English , ' tis because they ...
... Richard Flecknoe in his A Dis- course of the English Stage : There are few of our English plays ( excepting only some few of Jonson's ) without some faults or other ; and if the French have fewer than our English , ' tis because they ...
Page 223
... Richard Flecknoe , writing his thoughts down after the Restora- tion , vividly recalls the fine acting of the past , especially that of Richard Burbage : It was the happiness of the actors of those times to have such poets as these to ...
... Richard Flecknoe , writing his thoughts down after the Restora- tion , vividly recalls the fine acting of the past , especially that of Richard Burbage : It was the happiness of the actors of those times to have such poets as these to ...
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APPLIED CRITICISM | 1 |
EXCLUSIVE OF SHAKESPEARE AND JONSON | 18 |
SHAKESPEARE | 243 |
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