 | Leigh Hunt - English literature - 1811 - 510 pages
...dead member. It may seem a paradox, but I cannot help being of opinion that the plays of Shakspeare are less calculated for performance on a stage, than...whatever. Their distinguishing excellence is a reason that th"y should be so. There Is so much in them, which comes not under the province of acting ; with which,... | |
 | 1815 - 558 pages
...dead member. It may seem a paradox, but I cannot help being of opinion that the plays of Shakspeare are less calculated for performance on a stage, than those of almost any other dramatist whatever. Tkeir distinguishing excellence is a reason that they should be so. There is so much in them, which... | |
 | 1815 - 554 pages
...dead member. It may seem a paradox, but I cannot help being of opinion that the plays of Shakspeare are less calculated for performance on a stage, than...excellence is a reason that they should be so. There ia so much in them, which comes not under the province of acting, with which eye, and tone, and gesture,... | |
 | University magazine - 1848 - 824 pages
...lias devoted one of his admirable essays to maintaining the position, that the plays of Shakspeare are less calculated for performance on a stage than...dramatist whatever. " Their distinguishing excellence," he argues, " is a reason that they should be so. There is so much in them, which comes not under the... | |
 | 1859 - 802 pages
...cannot help being of opinion," says this essayist, " that the plays of Shakspeare are less caleulated for performance on a stage than those of almost any other dramatist whatever. How are the love dialogues of Romeo and Juliet, by the inherent fault of stagerepresentation, sullied... | |
 | 1864 - 516 pages
...substance. " It may seem a paradox, but I cannot help being of opinion that the plays of Shakspeare are less calculated for performance on a stage, than...dramatist whatever. Their distinguishing excellence is.a reason that they should be so. There is so much in them,, which comes not under the province of... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1867 - 684 pages
...dead member. It may seem a paradox, but I cannot help being of opinion that the plays of Shakspeire are less calculated for performance on a stage, than...dramatist whatever. Their distinguishing excellence it a reason that they should be so. There a so much in them, which cornea not uudcr the province of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1908 - 668 pages
...Shakespeare: 'It may seem a paradox, but I cannot help being of opinion that the plays of Shakespeare are less calculated for performance on a stage than those of almost any dramatist whatever. Their distinguishing excellence is a reason that they should be so. There is so... | |
 | Charles Lamb - English literature - 1876 - 740 pages
...dead member. It may seem a paradox, but I cannot help being of opinion that the plnys of Shakspere are less calculated for performance on a stage than...those of almost any other dramatist whatever. Their distinguished excellence is a reason that they should be so. There is so much in them, which comes... | |
 | Julius Leopold Klein - Drama - 1876 - 872 pages
...werden. ,,It may seem a paradox, but I cannot help being of opinion that the plays of Sh. are best calculated for performance on a stage, than those of almost any other dramatist whatever" p. 255. Ein Ausspruch, der sich mit einem ähnlichen von Goethe berührt. *) ,,It nowhere appears,... | |
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It may seem a paradox, but I cannot help being of opinion that the plays of Shakespeare are less calculated for performance on a stage than those of almost any other dramatist whatever. 
