Studies of Shakespeare in the Plays of King John, Cymbeline, Macbeth, As You Like It, Much Ado about Nothing, Romeo and Juliet: With Observations on the Criticism and the Acting of Those Plays |
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Page xvi
... Shakespeare's dramatic text , the more will he be in a condition to receive that additional and crowning illustration which no critic or commentator can give him - which can only come from the performer whom Nature and Shakespeare have ...
... Shakespeare's dramatic text , the more will he be in a condition to receive that additional and crowning illustration which no critic or commentator can give him - which can only come from the performer whom Nature and Shakespeare have ...
Page xviii
... Shakespeare's text , uncon- sciously prepossessed by the perverted stage impressions of their youth , or by interpreta- tions of their critical predecessors , derived through the same distorting theatrical medium . To understand this ...
... Shakespeare's text , uncon- sciously prepossessed by the perverted stage impressions of their youth , or by interpreta- tions of their critical predecessors , derived through the same distorting theatrical medium . To understand this ...
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... Shakespeare's plays , -so unsatisfactory does it seem to us on the whole , so inadequate either to guide the taste and judgment of the public , or to instruct and encourage the performer . This , no doubt , is partly attributable to the ...
... Shakespeare's plays , -so unsatisfactory does it seem to us on the whole , so inadequate either to guide the taste and judgment of the public , or to instruct and encourage the performer . This , no doubt , is partly attributable to the ...
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... Shakespeare's time , and the spirit in which they were commonly regarded by the court and by the great - by those who looked upon the theatre as they did upon the domestic fool , merely as a source of idle and profitless pastime ; while ...
... Shakespeare's time , and the spirit in which they were commonly regarded by the court and by the great - by those who looked upon the theatre as they did upon the domestic fool , merely as a source of idle and profitless pastime ; while ...
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... Shakespeare's leading characters , after all the cold , leaden , formal declamation under which even the best - esteemed performers had so long been accustomed to smother their spirit , was nothing less than a revelation to the play ...
... Shakespeare's leading characters , after all the cold , leaden , formal declamation under which even the best - esteemed performers had so long been accustomed to smother their spirit , was nothing less than a revelation to the play ...
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