The mask must always be very prejudicial to the action of the performer, either in joy or sorrow: whether he be in love, cross, or good•humored, the same features are always exhibited; and however he may gesticulate and vary the tone, he can never convey... Memoirs of Goldoni - Page 25by Carlo Goldoni - 1828Full view - About this book
| 1828 - 254 pages
...costume; the black dress and the woollen bonnet are still worn in Venice ; and the red under-waistcoat and breeches, cut out like drawers, with red stockings...of speaking trumpets, invented for the purpose of conveymg the sound through the vast extent of their amphitheatres. Passion and sentiment were not,... | |
| Carlo Goldoni - Dramatists, Italian - 1877 - 442 pages
...the action of the performer either in joy or sorrow ; whether he be in love, cross, or good-humored, the same features are always exhibited ; and however...The masks of the Greeks and Romans were a sort of speaking-trumpets, invented for the purpose of conveying the sound through the vast extent of their... | |
| Charles Dudley Warner - Literature - 1896 - 478 pages
...action of the performer, either in joy or sorrow: whether he be in love, cross, or good•humored, the same features are always exhibited; and however...The masks of the Greeks and Romans were a sort of speaking-trumpets, invented for the purpose of conveying the sound through the vast extent of their... | |
| Hobart Chatfield Chatfield-Taylor - Biography & Autobiography - 1913 - 762 pages
...he thus decries : The mask must always be very prejudicial to the action of the performer, either in joy or sorrow; whether he be in love, cross, or good-humoured,...different passions with which he is inwardly agitated. Though the evils of the Improvised Comedy are many, its virtues are world-wide in their influence.... | |
| Barrett Harper Clark - Drama - 1918 - 528 pages
...the action of the performer either in joy or sorrow; whether he be in love, cross, or good-humored, the same features are always exhibited; and however...The masks of the Greeks and Romans were a sort of speaking-trumpets, invented for the purpose of conveying the sound through the vast extent of their... | |
| Barrett Harper Clark - Drama - 1918 - 532 pages
...the action of the performer either in joy or sorrow; whether he be in love, cross, or good-humored, the same features are always exhibited; and however...The masks of the Greeks and Romans were a sort of speaking-trumpets, invented for the purpose of conveying the sound through the vast extent of their... | |
| Richard Garnett - 1899 - 432 pages
...comedy ; it now remains for me to mention the effects resulting from them. cross, or good-humored, the same features are always exhibited ; and however...conveying the sound through the vast extent of their amphitheaters. Passions and sentiment were not, in those times, carried to the pitch of delicacy now... | |
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