Dramatic Opinions and Essays by G. Bernard Shaw: Containing as Well A Word on the Dramatic Opinions and Essays, of G. Bernard Shaw, Volume 2Brentano's, 1906 |
Contents
238 | |
245 | |
255 | |
263 | |
272 | |
281 | |
287 | |
295 | |
79 | |
87 | |
95 | |
105 | |
116 | |
122 | |
131 | |
140 | |
154 | |
162 | |
170 | |
178 | |
186 | |
195 | |
203 | |
210 | |
219 | |
228 | |
304 | |
323 | |
331 | |
339 | |
349 | |
357 | |
372 | |
380 | |
387 | |
392 | |
406 | |
414 | |
425 | |
434 | |
444 | |
451 | |
459 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
actor actress Ada Rehan Antony artistic audience beauty better blank verse Borkman Cæsar cast character charm Cleopatra clever comedian comedy comic critic Doll's House doubt drama dramatist effect Elizabethan Ellen Terry English fashionable feel Forbes Robertson four acts gallery genius gentleman ghost give Hamlet hand Henry Arthur Jones hero heroine human humor Ibsen illusion imagination Julia Neilson Julius Cæsar lady laugh literary Little Eyolf London look Lyceum Madame Sans-Gêne Magda manager matter Miss Achurch Miss Ellen Terry Miss Robins Miss Terry modern moral nature never night novel passion Patrick Campbell Peer Gynt performance person piece Pinero play playgoer popular present pretty produced romantic scene second act sense sentimental Shakespeare Sir Henry Irving sort speech stage style success theatre theatrical thing tion vulgar West End whilst Wilson Barrett woman young
Popular passages
Page 170 - He shall feed his flock like a shepherd, he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.
Page 277 - Put out the light, and then put out the light. If I quench thee, thou flaming minister, I can again thy former light restore, Should I repent me; but once put out thy light, Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature, I know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume.
Page 421 - Is it possible Disdain should die while she hath such meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick? Courtesy itself must convert to disdain if you come in her presence.
Page 116 - 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.
Page 107 - That both are tied till one shall have expired. Sad thought! to lose the spouse that was adorning Our days, and put one's servants into mourning. There's doubtless something in domestic doings Which forms, in fact, true love's antithesis; Romances paint at full length people's wooings, But only give a bust of marriages; For no one cares for matrimonial cooings, There's nothing wrong in a connubial kiss; Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife, He would have written sonnets all his life?
Page 118 - tis to pity and be pitied, Let gentleness my strong enforcement be : In the which hope I blush, and hide my sword.
Page 170 - His watchmen are blind : they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark ; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand : they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.
Page 466 - Dont waste your time at family funerals grieving for your relatives: attend to life, not to death: there are as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it, and better.
Page 277 - Never, lago. Like to the Pontic sea, Whose icy current and compulsive course Ne'er feels retiring ebb, but keeps due on To the Propontic and the Hellespont ; Even so my bloody thoughts, with violent pace, Shall ne'er look back, ne'er ebb to humble love. Till that a capable and wide revenge Swallow them up. — Now, by yond marble heaven, In the due reverence of a sacred vow {Kneels, I here engage my words.
Page 211 - The crown o' the earth doth melt. My lord ! O, wither'd is the garland of the war, The soldier's pole is fall'n : young boys and girls Are level now with men ; the odds is gone, And there is nothing left remarkable Beneath the visiting moon.