 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1844 - 600 pages
...afterwards comes to a point previously urged by Whetstone ; for Sidney complains that plays were " neither right tragedies nor right comedies, mingling...the clown by head and shoulders, to play a part in majestical matters with neither decency nor discretion ; so as neither the admiration and commiseration,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1851 - 624 pages
...preference of the classic school over the romantic, by objecting, as Sir Philip Sydney objects, that " plays be neither right tragedies nor right comedies, mingling kings and clowns." There had been, according to Spenser, a state of the drama that would "Fill with pleasure The listeners'... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1853 - 1158 pages
...afterwards comes to a point previously urged by "Whetstone ; for Sidney complains that plays "were " all men idle, all ; And women, too, but innocent and pure. majestical matters with neither decency nor discretion ; so as neither the admiration and commiseration,... | |
 | William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier - 1853 - 442 pages
...neither right tragedies nor right comedies, mingling' kings and downs, not beeause the matter so earrieth it, but thrust in the clown by head and shoulders, to play a part in maicbtieal matters with neither deceney nor diseretion ; so as neither the admiration and commiseration,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1856 - 424 pages
...preference of the classic school over the romantic, by objecting, as Sir Philip Sidney objects, that "plays be neither right tragedies nor right comedies, mingling kings and clowns." There had been, according to Spenser, a state of the drama that would '' Fill with pleasure The listeners'... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1858 - 762 pages
...afterwards comes to a point previously urged by Whetstone ; for Sidney complains that plays were " neither right tragedies nor right comedies, mingling...the clown by head and shoulders, to play a part in majestical matters with neither decency nor discretion ; so as neither the admiration and commiseration,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1867 - 584 pages
...preference of the classic school over the romantic, by objecting, as Sir Philip Sydney objects, that " plays be neither right tragedies nor right comedies, mingling kings and clowns." There had been, according to Spenser, a state of the drama that would " Fill with pleasure The listeners'... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - English drama - 1872 - 488 pages
...imagine, and art hath taught, and nil ancient examples justified. But, besides these gross absurdities, all their plays be neither right tragedies nor right...the clown by head and shoulders, to play a part in majestical matters with neither decency nor discretion." From all which it is evident enough that very... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears - 1874 - 434 pages
...violation of the "unities" of time and place; and then says : " But besides these gross absurdities, how all their plays be neither right tragedies nor...not because the matter so carrieth it, but thrust in clowns by head and shonlders, to play a part in majestical matters, with neither decency nor discretion.... | |
 | Literature - 1876 - 1072 pages
...disregard of the classical rules by English dramatists, and adds, " But besides these gross absurdities how all their plays be neither right tragedies nor...the clown by head and shoulders, to play a part in majestical matters with neither decency nor discretion, so as neither the admiration and commiseration,... | |
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But besides these gross absurdities, how all their plays be neither right tragedies nor right comedies, mingling kings and clowns, not because the matter so carrieth it, but thrust in the clown by head and shoulders to play a part in majestical matters,... 
