Eighteenth Century Essays on ShakespeareDavid Nichol Smith J. MacLehose and Sons, 1903 - 358 páginas |
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... Tragedies of Shake- speare , which in my youthful days have so frequently filled my eyes with tears , hold their rank still , and are the great support of our theatre . " Theobald could say that " this author is grown so universal a ...
... Tragedies of Shake- speare , which in my youthful days have so frequently filled my eyes with tears , hold their rank still , and are the great support of our theatre . " Theobald could say that " this author is grown so universal a ...
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... Tragedy , had championed the classical drama , and had gone as far in abuse as his greater contemporary had gone in praise . The authority which each exerted is well illustrated by Rowe's Account of Shakespeare . Rowe is of the party of ...
... Tragedy , had championed the classical drama , and had gone as far in abuse as his greater contemporary had gone in praise . The authority which each exerted is well illustrated by Rowe's Account of Shakespeare . Rowe is of the party of ...
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... tragedy till they choked it . His regard for Shakespeare did not give him courage for the addition of a comic element or an under- plot . He must obey the " hampering critics , " though his avowed model had ignored them . Accordingly ...
... tragedy till they choked it . His regard for Shakespeare did not give him courage for the addition of a comic element or an under- plot . He must obey the " hampering critics , " though his avowed model had ignored them . Accordingly ...
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... Tragedy and an Attempt at a Vindication of Shakespeare . Therein he had spoken of " noble irregularity , " and censured the " graver pedants " of the age . By 1710 he is a grave pedant himself . In 1694 he had said that Rymer had scarce ...
... Tragedy and an Attempt at a Vindication of Shakespeare . Therein he had spoken of " noble irregularity , " and censured the " graver pedants " of the age . By 1710 he is a grave pedant himself . In 1694 he had said that Rymer had scarce ...
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... tragedy so exactly and so truly in reason and nature that succeeding criticks have writ justly and reasonably upon that art no farther than they have adhered to their great master's notions . " But at the very beginning of the letters ...
... tragedy so exactly and so truly in reason and nature that succeeding criticks have writ justly and reasonably upon that art no farther than they have adhered to their great master's notions . " But at the very beginning of the letters ...
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