The Elizabethan Dramatists as CriticsPhilosophical Library, 1963 - 420 pages |
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... better than he could . . . . And therefore he doth not express the matter lively and naturally with common speech . And Bacon puts it this way ( Essay 43 ) : Not but I think a painter can make a better face than ever was ; but he must ...
... better than he could . . . . And therefore he doth not express the matter lively and naturally with common speech . And Bacon puts it this way ( Essay 43 ) : Not but I think a painter can make a better face than ever was ; but he must ...
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... better sort of men ; seeing with what idle fictions , and gross follies , the stage at this day abused men's recreations . One of the serious objections that the Puritans had to the theater was the practice of dressing boys as women — a ...
... better sort of men ; seeing with what idle fictions , and gross follies , the stage at this day abused men's recreations . One of the serious objections that the Puritans had to the theater was the practice of dressing boys as women — a ...
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... better , I must envy thee ! In the Discoveries ( pp . 21ff . ) Jonson urges at some length the incapability of the public to pass judgment , winding up with the insistence that what he says applies to all classes of society : Nor think ...
... better , I must envy thee ! In the Discoveries ( pp . 21ff . ) Jonson urges at some length the incapability of the public to pass judgment , winding up with the insistence that what he says applies to all classes of society : Nor think ...
Contents
APPLIED CRITICISM | 1 |
EXCLUSIVE OF SHAKESPEARE AND JONSON | 18 |
SHAKESPEARE | 243 |
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