William Shakespeare: The Critical Heritage Volume 4 1753-1765Brian Vickers Routledge, 2003 M09 1 - 568 páginas The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material. |
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... eyes 'SHAKESPEARE stands at the head of our dramatic writers; perhaps at the head of all, who have figured in that kind in every age and nation', a verdict which Daniel Webb repeated in 1762 (No. 195). For John Armstrong in 1758 (No ...
... eyes 'SHAKESPEARE stands at the head of our dramatic writers; perhaps at the head of all, who have figured in that kind in every age and nation', a verdict which Daniel Webb repeated in 1762 (No. 195). For John Armstrong in 1758 (No ...
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... eyes to be merely a succession of incidents with no design. Another tragedy that caused critical difficulty was Romeo and Juliet. Garrick's adaptation had cut many of the quibbles, but Charles Marsh for one was not satisfied, and ...
... eyes to be merely a succession of incidents with no design. Another tragedy that caused critical difficulty was Romeo and Juliet. Garrick's adaptation had cut many of the quibbles, but Charles Marsh for one was not satisfied, and ...
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... eyes'; or his Lear, the emphatic way he spoke the prayer against his daughters, kneeling; or the mixture of emotions with which he confronted Goneril and Regan, 'ready to choke with passion'; or the moment (albeit from Tate's version) ...
... eyes'; or his Lear, the emphatic way he spoke the prayer against his daughters, kneeling; or the mixture of emotions with which he confronted Goneril and Regan, 'ready to choke with passion'; or the moment (albeit from Tate's version) ...
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... eyes'. Yet at dinner two days later Thomas Sheridan 'showed to my conviction that Garrick did not play the great scene in the Second Part of King Henry IV with propriety.... Now Mr. Garrick in that famous scene whines most piteously ...
... eyes'. Yet at dinner two days later Thomas Sheridan 'showed to my conviction that Garrick did not play the great scene in the Second Part of King Henry IV with propriety.... Now Mr. Garrick in that famous scene whines most piteously ...
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... eye silent? Did you narrowly look?—I looked only at the stop-watch, my Lord,— Excellent observer! The parody is characteristically witty, and puts the critics in an absurd light, but it hardly answers the serious issue of the proper ...
... eye silent? Did you narrowly look?—I looked only at the stop-watch, my Lord,— Excellent observer! The parody is characteristically witty, and puts the critics in an absurd light, but it hardly answers the serious issue of the proper ...
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