The Elizabethan Dramatists as CriticsGreenwood Press, 1968 - 420 pages Examines Elizabethan dramatists’ reflected and criticized their own art. |
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Page 98
... Thou warm'st the lover ; how severely just Thou wert to punish , if he burn'd to lust ; How epidemic errors by thy play Were laugh'd out of esteem , so purg'd away ; How to each sense thou so didst virtue fit That all grew virtuous to ...
... Thou warm'st the lover ; how severely just Thou wert to punish , if he burn'd to lust ; How epidemic errors by thy play Were laugh'd out of esteem , so purg'd away ; How to each sense thou so didst virtue fit That all grew virtuous to ...
Page 166
... thou alone Hast taught our tongue , the rules of time , of place , And other rites , .. Barry . Ram - Alley ( 1609 ) . Prol .: Observing all those ancient streams Which from the horse - foot fount do flow , As time , place , person ...
... thou alone Hast taught our tongue , the rules of time , of place , And other rites , .. Barry . Ram - Alley ( 1609 ) . Prol .: Observing all those ancient streams Which from the horse - foot fount do flow , As time , place , person ...
Page 380
... thou it is mere fortune that can win ? Or thy rank setting ? that thou dar'st put in Thy all , at all : and whatsoe'er I do , Art still at that , and think'st to blow me up too ? I cannot for the stage a drama lay , Tragic , or comic ...
... thou it is mere fortune that can win ? Or thy rank setting ? that thou dar'st put in Thy all , at all : and whatsoe'er I do , Art still at that , and think'st to blow me up too ? I cannot for the stage a drama lay , Tragic , or comic ...
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APPLIED CRITICISM | 1 |
EXCLUSIVE OF SHAKESPEARE AND JONSON | 18 |
SHAKESPEARE | 243 |
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