The Staple of News, Volumes 28-29H. Holt, 1905 - 276 pages |
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... satire been less unpalatable to the audience for whom it was intended , this allegorical element would prob- ably have condemned The Staple of News as a stage - piece in Jonson's day ; just as it offers some discouragement to those who ...
... satire been less unpalatable to the audience for whom it was intended , this allegorical element would prob- ably have condemned The Staple of News as a stage - piece in Jonson's day ; just as it offers some discouragement to those who ...
Page v
... satiric purpose of comedy was always paramount . Indeed it sometimes seems , as in the formless Cynthia's Revels , as if he deliberately neglected the principles of stage - success in order that his satire might be the sole claimant for ...
... satiric purpose of comedy was always paramount . Indeed it sometimes seems , as in the formless Cynthia's Revels , as if he deliberately neglected the principles of stage - success in order that his satire might be the sole claimant for ...
Page vi
... satire been less unpalatable to the audience for whom it was intended , this allegorical element would prob- ably have condemned The Staple of News as a stage - piece in Jonson's day ; just as it offers some discouragement to those who ...
... satire been less unpalatable to the audience for whom it was intended , this allegorical element would prob- ably have condemned The Staple of News as a stage - piece in Jonson's day ; just as it offers some discouragement to those who ...
Page vii
... satire upon the idle , credulous , almost dis- eased , appetite of the public for transitory news , and upon the ... satiric themes : projectors and bubble projects , typified in Cymbal and his news - exchange ; the profane wit which ...
... satire upon the idle , credulous , almost dis- eased , appetite of the public for transitory news , and upon the ... satiric themes : projectors and bubble projects , typified in Cymbal and his news - exchange ; the profane wit which ...
Page xix
... satire , and had it been written after the danger was past , it does not seem likely that Jonson would so have woven the Infanta into the satire upon the idolatry of money - which , after all , is the fundamental idea of the play , no ...
... satire , and had it been written after the danger was past , it does not seem likely that Jonson would so have woven the Infanta into the satire upon the idolatry of money - which , after all , is the fundamental idea of the play , no ...
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Page 117 - But on the very rushes where the comedy is to dance, yea, and under the state of Cambyses himself, must our feathered estrich, like a piece of ordnance, be planted valiantly, because impudently, beating down the mews and hisses of the opposed rascality.
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