A Course of Lectures on Dramatic Art and LiteratureH:G: Bohn, 1846 - 535 pages |
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... English and Spanish Theatres - Spirit of the Ro- mantic Drama - Shakspeare - His Age and the Circumstances of his Life - LECTURE XXIII . Ignorance or Learning of Shakspeare - Costume as observed by Shak- speare , and how far necessary ...
... English and Spanish Theatres - Spirit of the Ro- mantic Drama - Shakspeare - His Age and the Circumstances of his Life - LECTURE XXIII . Ignorance or Learning of Shakspeare - Costume as observed by Shak- speare , and how far necessary ...
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... English Theatre : the first the most important— The first Conformation of the Stage , and its Advantages - State of the Histrionic Art in Shakspeare's Time - Antiquities of Dramatic Literature - Lilly , Marlow , Heywood - Ben Jonson ...
... English Theatre : the first the most important— The first Conformation of the Stage , and its Advantages - State of the Histrionic Art in Shakspeare's Time - Antiquities of Dramatic Literature - Lilly , Marlow , Heywood - Ben Jonson ...
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... any of ourselves ; and that the admiration of the English nation for Shakspeare should first obtain a truly enlightened interpreter in a critic of Germany . A It is not for me , however , to enlarge Preface of the Translator.
... any of ourselves ; and that the admiration of the English nation for Shakspeare should first obtain a truly enlightened interpreter in a critic of Germany . A It is not for me , however , to enlarge Preface of the Translator.
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... English author is deep and gloomy in his knowledge of the human heart , the Spanish poet gives himself up with pleasure and delight to the beauty of life , to the sincerity of faith , and to all the brilliancy of those virtues which ...
... English author is deep and gloomy in his knowledge of the human heart , the Spanish poet gives himself up with pleasure and delight to the beauty of life , to the sincerity of faith , and to all the brilliancy of those virtues which ...
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... English theatre , in particular , has been almost altogether re - written . I have been prevented , partly by the want of leisure and partly by the limits of the work , from treating of the Spanish theatre with that fulness which its ...
... English theatre , in particular , has been almost altogether re - written . I have been prevented , partly by the want of leisure and partly by the limits of the work , from treating of the Spanish theatre with that fulness which its ...
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