Yale Studies in English, Volumes 46-471913 |
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... writer . He repeatedly begs his audience not to expect more than they will find ; all he pre- tends to is ' but Mirth and Sense2 ; he is content to term himself a ' Playmaker , ' without aspiring as yet to the names of Author , or Poet ...
... writer . He repeatedly begs his audience not to expect more than they will find ; all he pre- tends to is ' but Mirth and Sense2 ; he is content to term himself a ' Playmaker , ' without aspiring as yet to the names of Author , or Poet ...
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... writer of no mean ability , who wrote without illusions as to the value of his work for the future , purely to obtain a livelihood . This practical view he has ex- pressed in the prologue to the Damoiselle , which epi- tomizes him for ...
... writer of no mean ability , who wrote without illusions as to the value of his work for the future , purely to obtain a livelihood . This practical view he has ex- pressed in the prologue to the Damoiselle , which epi- tomizes him for ...
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... writers were either dead or had ceased producing . Jonson's popularity had waned , though he wrote three more plays before his death in 1637. The same year Dekker died , but he had stopped writing plays more than ten years before ...
... writers were either dead or had ceased producing . Jonson's popularity had waned , though he wrote three more plays before his death in 1637. The same year Dekker died , but he had stopped writing plays more than ten years before ...
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... writers , all but one resting in com- fortable obscurity , wrote one or two humor - comedies apiece between 1631 and 1640. In the field of romantic drama Brome produced one fine play , the Jovial Crew , which had a greater popularity ...
... writers , all but one resting in com- fortable obscurity , wrote one or two humor - comedies apiece between 1631 and 1640. In the field of romantic drama Brome produced one fine play , the Jovial Crew , which had a greater popularity ...
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... writing for the Queen's Company in 1633 , and that the Lancashire Witches was brought out by the King's Men , the com- pany for which Brome was writing in 1633 and 1634 . 1 We are able to determine , to a certain extent , the parts that ...
... writing for the Queen's Company in 1633 , and that the Lancashire Witches was brought out by the King's Men , the com- pany for which Brome was writing in 1633 and 1634 . 1 We are able to determine , to a certain extent , the parts that ...
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Page 175 - Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth : but I say unto you, That ye resist not evil : but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.
Page 128 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Page 113 - ... twere, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure. Now this overdone, or come tardy off, though it make the unskilful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve; the censure of the which one must, in your allowance, o'erweigh a whole theatre of others.
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Page 131 - While in the meantime two armies fly in, represented with four swords and bucklers, and then what hard heart will not receive it for a pitched field? Now of time they are much more liberal. For ordinary it is that two young princes fall in love; after many traverses she is got with child, delivered of a fair boy, he is lost, groweth a man, falleth in love, and is ready to get another child, — and all this in two hours...
Page 190 - There dwelt a man in Babylon Of reputation great by fame ; He took to wife a faire woman, Susanna she was callde by name : A woman fair and vertuous ; Lady, lady : Why should we not of her learn thus To live godly ? If this song of Corydon, &c., has not more merit, it is at least an evil of less magnitude.
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Page 109 - Servants, with great Applause: Written by the memorable worthies of their time, Mr. John Fletcher and Mr. William Shakespeare, Gent.