On Troilus and Cressida. (Progr., Städt. Realsch. zu Bromberg). |
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A. W. von Schlegel Achilles Aeschylus Agamemnon Ajax Antenor appears bids farewell brother Calchas Chapman's version character chaste pearl Chaucer's epic poem comedy cuckold Cupid Cyclops dare say Delius Diomed Diomedes drama Electra exclaims equivocal expressions Euripides extravagant eyes father Faust feeling of real fight German commentator Goethe's Grecian camp Greece Greek hair hath heart Hector slain Helen Helen's person heroes Iliad invectives Knight Lacedemon language laß leaving Troy lechery look love-tale lover lustful coquet manner Menelaus Myrmidons Nestor noble old Priam palace Pandar Paris Patroclus pearl of India poet poet's preface to Troilus prostitute romanticism satirical scenes schauen sensuality Shakspere Shakspere's play Shakspere's Werke Sophocles soul spectator Thersites thou Tragedy Troilus and Cressida Trojan Trojan war Troy's destruction Troy's walls Troye Boke Ulysses ungain'd version of Homer warriors whole whore wife woman Zeus αὐτὴν δεῦρο ἐν καὶ μοι τε τὴν τὸ ὡς
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Page 6 - There's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, Nay, her foot speaks ; her wanton spirits look out At every joint and motive of her body. O, these encounterers, so glib of tongue, That give a coasting welcome ere it comes. And wide unclasp the tables of their thoughts To every ticklish reader ! set them down For sluttish spoils of opportunity, And daughters of the game. [Trumpet within. All. The Trojans
Page 2 - ... warriors of Christian chivalry, — and to substantiate the distinct and graceful profiles or outlines of the Homeric epic into the flesh and blood of the romantic drama, — in short, to give a grand history-piece in the robust style of Albert Durer.
Page 20 - ... sought in his plays, must be measured against the licentiousness of his language, and the question will then be, how much did he write from conviction, and how much to gratify the taste of his hearers ? How much did he add to the age, and how much did he borrow from it ? Pope says, " he was obliged to please the lowest of the people, and to keep the worst of company...
Page 4 - Outliving beauty's outward, with a mind That doth renew swifter than blood decays! Or, that persuasion could but thus convince me,— That my integrity and truth to you Might be affronted with the match and weight Of such a winnow'd purity in love; How were I then uplifted!
Page 14 - Is she worth keeping? why, she is a pearl, Whose price hath launched above a thousand ships, And turned crowned kings to merchants.
Page 7 - For he himself witnesses what he has seen with his own eyes and heard with his own ears.
Page 15 - PANDARUS Come. come. I'll hear no more of this. I'll sing you a song now. HELEN Ay. ay. prithee now. By my troth. sweet lord. thou hast a fine forehead. 100 PANDARUS Ay. you may. you may. HELEN Let thy song be love. This love will undo us all.
Page 7 - ... Werthes unseres Drama's innig zusammen; auch zweifeln wir nicht, eine erschöpfende Behandlung dieses Punktes würde den Verf. veranlasst haben, sein Urtheil über das Stück selbst einigermassen zu modificiren und zu mildern. So sagt er p. 7 von der Liebesgeschichte zwischen Troilus und Cressida: „there is no plot in these love-scenes, whose only connexion is a mere carnal appetite,
Page 4 - Women are angels, wooing. Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing.
Page 20 - Winchester geese" gewiss am allerwenigsten die spectators sind, „who best may understand to value the beauties of this satirical farce." Vielmehr möchten wir aus den Worten des der ersten Ausgabe, vorangeschickten Vorwortes: „Eternal reader, you have here a new play, never staled with the stage, never clapper-clawed with the palms of the vulgar, ... not sullied with the smoky breath of the multitude...