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Page xxviii
... of first stage production ? Poetaster itself , Cynthia's Revels , and Dekker's Satiromastix , are our sources of infor- mation . Lines 14-15 of the speech of Envy in Poetaster give xxviii Introduction The Date of Poetaster.
... of first stage production ? Poetaster itself , Cynthia's Revels , and Dekker's Satiromastix , are our sources of infor- mation . Lines 14-15 of the speech of Envy in Poetaster give xxviii Introduction The Date of Poetaster.
Page xxix
... give us the time Jonson spent on composition : These fifteene weekes ( So long as fince the plot was but an embrion ) . It is evident also that when Jonson was at work on Poetas- ter , he had reason to believe that Dekker was already ...
... give us the time Jonson spent on composition : These fifteene weekes ( So long as fince the plot was but an embrion ) . It is evident also that when Jonson was at work on Poetas- ter , he had reason to believe that Dekker was already ...
Page xxx
... give some idea of the method of composition pursued in Poetaster , it is purposed to cite here the princi- pal passages and situations found in classical authors of which Jonson , by virtue of his learning and his peculiar theories of ...
... give some idea of the method of composition pursued in Poetaster , it is purposed to cite here the princi- pal passages and situations found in classical authors of which Jonson , by virtue of his learning and his peculiar theories of ...
Page xxxv
... give his precise words , without addition or dimi- nution ; and unfortunately attempted to do it within the compass of the original . ' Gifford seems to forget that in this particular instance there was no effort to keep ' within the ...
... give his precise words , without addition or dimi- nution ; and unfortunately attempted to do it within the compass of the original . ' Gifford seems to forget that in this particular instance there was no effort to keep ' within the ...
Page xxxvi
... gives us little comedy and much pitiful personal satire . The themes are the malice , ignorance , and even the poverty , of the poet - apes , and the forbearance ( save the mark ! ) , wisdom , and genius of Ben Jonson . Poetaster is ...
... gives us little comedy and much pitiful personal satire . The themes are the malice , ignorance , and even the poverty , of the poet - apes , and the forbearance ( save the mark ! ) , wisdom , and genius of Ben Jonson . Poetaster is ...
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Page xc - O that Ben Jonson is a pestilent fellow, he brought up Horace giving the Poets a pill, but our fellow Shakespeare hath given him a purge that made him bewray his credit.
Page cii - Lastly, I would inform you, that this book, in all numbers, is not the same with that which was acted on the public stage ; wherein a second pen had good share...
Page 223 - Jonson) is a great lover and praiser of himself ; a contemner and scorner of others ; given rather to lose a friend than a jest ; jealous of every word and action of those about him (especially after drink, which is one of the elements in which he liveth...
Page 216 - ... it. In his works you find little to retrench or alter. Wit, and language, and humour, also in some measure, we had before him ; but something of art was wanting to the drama, till he came. He managed his strength to more advantage than any who preceded him. You seldom find him making love in any of his scenes, or endeavouring to move the passions ; his genius was too sullen and saturnine to do it gracefully, especially when he 'knew he came after those who had performed both to such a height.
Page xliii - He had many quarrells with Marston, beat him, and took his pistol from him, wrote his Poetaster on him; the beginning of them were, that Marston represented him in the stage, in his youth given to venerie.
Page 281 - A New Study of his Life and Writings. CAROLINE LOUISA WHITE, Ph.D. $1.50. III. The Life of St. Cecilia, from MS. Ashmole 43 and MS. Cotton Tiberius E. VII, with Introduction, Variants, and Glossary. BERTHA ELLEN LOVEWELL, Ph.D. $1.00. IV. Dryden's Dramatic Theory and Practice. MARGARET SHERWOOD, Ph.D.
Page 236 - There is still another place, built in the form of a theatre, which serves for the baiting of bulls and bears; they are fastened behind, and then worried by great English bull-dogs, but not without great risk to the dogs, from the horns of the one and the teeth of the other; and it sometimes happens that they are killed upon the spot; fresh ones are immediately supplied in the places of those that are wounded or tired.
Page xxxv - ... either to gaine or keep. Vindicative, but if he be well answered, at himself, for any religion as being versed in both, interpreteth best sayings and deeds often to the worst: oppressed with fantasie, which hath ever mastered his reason, a generall disease in many poets. his inventions are smooth and easie, but above all he excelleth in a translation.
Page xc - It is said of the incomparable Virgil, that he brought forth his verses like a bear, and after formed them with licking.
Page 160 - Roger, thou know'st the length of my foot; as it is none of the biggest, so I thank God, it is handsome enough; prithee, let me have a pair of shoes made, cork, good Roger, wooden heel too.