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Page xvii
So little is he disposed to caricature , that we may rather say many of his traits are almost too nice and delicate for the stage , that they can only be properly seized by a great actor and fully understood by a very acute audience .
So little is he disposed to caricature , that we may rather say many of his traits are almost too nice and delicate for the stage , that they can only be properly seized by a great actor and fully understood by a very acute audience .
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Cibber , in speaking of the early English stage , accounts for the want of prominence and theatrical display in Shakspeare's female characters from the circumstance , that women in those days were not allowed to play parts of women ...
Cibber , in speaking of the early English stage , accounts for the want of prominence and theatrical display in Shakspeare's female characters from the circumstance , that women in those days were not allowed to play parts of women ...
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She glided on and off the stage like an apparition . To have seen her in that character was an event in every one's life , not to be forgotten . The dramatic beauty of the character of Duncan , which excites the respect and pity even of ...
She glided on and off the stage like an apparition . To have seen her in that character was an event in every one's life , not to be forgotten . The dramatic beauty of the character of Duncan , which excites the respect and pity even of ...
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... and as if they did not believe what they had seen . The Witches of MACBETH , indeed , are ridiculous on the modern stage , and we doubt if the Furies of Eschylus would . be more respected . The progress of manners and 20 MACBETH .
... and as if they did not believe what they had seen . The Witches of MACBETH , indeed , are ridiculous on the modern stage , and we doubt if the Furies of Eschylus would . be more respected . The progress of manners and 20 MACBETH .
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The progress of manners and knowledge has an influence on the stage , and will in time perhaps destroy | V both tragedy and comedy . Filch's picking pockets in the Beg - ¦ gar's Opera is not so good a jest as it used to be ; by the ...
The progress of manners and knowledge has an influence on the stage , and will in time perhaps destroy | V both tragedy and comedy . Filch's picking pockets in the Beg - ¦ gar's Opera is not so good a jest as it used to be ; by the ...
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| Title | Characters of Shakespeare's Plays Wiley & Putnam's library of choice reading |
| Author | William Hazlitt |
| Publisher | Wiley and Putnam, 1845 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 5 Nov 2007 |
| Length | 229 pages |
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