 So to see Lear acted - to see an old man tottering about the stage with a walking-stick, turned out of doors by his daughters in a rainy night, has nothing in it but what is painful and disgusting.  Miscellanies - Page 48by Stephen Collins - 1842 - 308 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1859 - 784 pages
...to a large assembly ! How can the profound sorrows of Hamlet be depicted by a gesticulating actor ? So, to see Lear acted, to see an old man tottering about the stage with a walking-stick, turned out of doors by his daughters in a rainy night, has nothing in it but what is... | |
 | David Bromwich - 1987 - 320 pages
...belong to history, - to something past and inevitable, if it has any thing to do with time at all. The sublime images, the poetry alone, is that which is present to our minds in the read1ng. So to see Lear acted, - to see an old man tottering about the stage with a walking-stick,... | |
 | Susan Bruce - 1998 - 196 pages
...to belong to history - to something past and inevitable, if it has anything to do with time at all. The sublime images, the poetry alone, is that which...to see an old man tottering about the stage with a walking-stick, turned out of doors by his daughters in a rainy night, has nothing in it but what is... | |
 | Barbara A. Murray - 2001 - 316 pages
...catastrophe, as originally penned by Shakespeare, could be borne by a modern audience." For Charles Lamb to see Lear acted, — to see an old man tottering about the stage with a walking-stick, turned out of doors by his daughters in a rainy night, has nothing in it but what is... | |
 | Jonathan Gil Harris, Natasha Korda - 2006 - 364 pages
...conjuring-gown . . ." And of King Lear, which he famously pronounced unperformable, he observes that "the sublime images, the poetry alone, is that which...to see an old man tottering about the stage with a walkingstick... has nothing in it but what is painful and disgusting."3" Like Gosson's objections to... | |
 | Natasha Korda - 2002 - 304 pages
...stage, in the view of Romantic critics like Charles Lamb, rendered the Shakespearean sublime ridiculous: "The sublime images, the poetry alone, is that which is present to our minds in the reading," Lamb maintained in his discussion of King Lear, which he famously proclaimed to be unperformable; "to... | |
 | Joan Fitzpatrick - 2004 - 198 pages
...and poets like Spenser. Charles Lamb thought that Shakespeare should be read rather than performed: to see Lear acted, - to see an old man tottering about the stage with a walking-stick, turned out of doors by his daughters in a rainy night, has nothing in it but what is... | |
 | Cormac Power - 2008 - 228 pages
...524). Physical enactment can only impinge upon the essence of Shakespeare's poetic and a-temporal art: "The sublime images, the poetry alone, is that which is present to our minds in the reading" (1865: 523). It is for this reason that Lamb contends that "Lear is essentially impossible to represent... | |
 | 1835 - 626 pages
...belong to history — to something past and inevitable — if it has anything to do with time at all. The sublime images, the poetry alone, is that which...to see an old man tottering about the stage with a walking-stick, turned out of doors by his daughters, in a rainy night — has nothing in it but what... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 140 pages
...belong to history, — to something past and inevitable, if it has any thing to do with time at all. The sublime images, the poetry alone, is that which...to see an old man tottering about the stage with a walking-stick, turned out of doors by his daughters in a rainy night, has nothing in it but what is... | |
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