Elizabethan Playwrights: A Short History of the English Drama from Mediaeval Times to the Closing of the Theatres in 1642 |
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... theme to the Garden of Eden , and forward to the fall of the angels . The Easter play likewise expanded , adding such scenes as the incredulity of Thomas , Christ stepping forth from the sepulcher and his visit to the lower regions to ...
... theme to the Garden of Eden , and forward to the fall of the angels . The Easter play likewise expanded , adding such scenes as the incredulity of Thomas , Christ stepping forth from the sepulcher and his visit to the lower regions to ...
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... theme that of the passion . The Passion play is earliest traceable to 1200 at Sienna , and its origin was not litur- gical . In this earliest form it includes the descent from the cross , the healing of Longinus and the burial of Christ ...
... theme that of the passion . The Passion play is earliest traceable to 1200 at Sienna , and its origin was not litur- gical . In this earliest form it includes the descent from the cross , the healing of Longinus and the burial of Christ ...
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... theme the importance and universality of which were most fittingly commemorated in drama . In this brief sketch of the evolution of the miracle play it is carefully to be remembered that the steps detailed did not ensue with any ...
... theme the importance and universality of which were most fittingly commemorated in drama . In this brief sketch of the evolution of the miracle play it is carefully to be remembered that the steps detailed did not ensue with any ...
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... theme than this of the sacrifice of Christ that men might live , presented on the great canvas of Bible story . Under kinder auspices and in gentler times , above all , with one great tragic genius , the peer of the comic spirit of the ...
... theme than this of the sacrifice of Christ that men might live , presented on the great canvas of Bible story . Under kinder auspices and in gentler times , above all , with one great tragic genius , the peer of the comic spirit of the ...
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... theme of the humanists and the school drama . Staging of the moral play As to the staging of these many kinds of moral plays , The Pride of Life , which dates not long after the death of Chaucer , was acted out of doors , and so was The ...
... theme of the humanists and the school drama . Staging of the moral play As to the staging of these many kinds of moral plays , The Pride of Life , which dates not long after the death of Chaucer , was acted out of doors , and so was The ...
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Page 278 - If I were a woman I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased me, complexions that liked me, and breaths that I defied not.
Page 119 - How would it have joyed brave Talbot, the terror of the French, to think that after he had lain two hundred years in his tomb, he should triumph again on the stage and have his bones new embalmed with the tears of ten thousand spectators at least (at several times), who, in the tragedian that represents his person, imagine they behold him fresh bleeding...
Page 285 - Farewell ! a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man : to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hopes ; to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him ; The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And, when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Page 138 - Our revels now are ended... These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air, And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capped towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind: we are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep..
Page 83 - From jigging veins of rhyming mother wits, And such conceits as clownage keeps in pay, We'll lead you to the stately tent of War...
Page 20 - As to the beginning of the said gild, be it known that, once on a time, a play setting forth the goodness of the Lord's Prayer was played in the city of York; in which play all manner of vices and sins were held up to scorn, and the virtues were held up to praise.
Page 119 - How would it have joyed brave Talbot (the terror of the French) to think that after he had lain two hundred years in his 180 tomb, he should triumph again on the stage, and have his bones new embalmed with the tears of ten thousand spectators at least (at several times), who in the tragedian that represents his person imagine they behold him fresh bleeding.
Page 116 - Though, as Ben Jonson says of him that he had but little Latin and less Greek, he understood Latin pretty well, for he had been in his younger years a schoolmaster in the country.
Page 212 - A tragicomedy is not so called in respect of mirth and killing, but in respect it wants deaths, which is enough to make it no tragedy, yet brings some near it, which is enough to make it no comedy...
Page 122 - This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England, This nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings, Fear'd by their breed and famous by their birth, Renowned for their deeds as far from home, For Christian service and true chivalry...