The Influence of Molière on Restoration ComedyColumbia University Press, 1910 - 272 páginas |
Términos y frases comunes
acters action Alceste Bourgeois Gentilhomme character circle close Columbia University comedy of intrigue comedy of manners comic effect Congreve Country Wife court Crowne daughter Dépit Amoureux developed dialogue Double Dealer drama dramatists Dryden edition English Etheredge Etheredge's Fâcheux feature Femmes Savantes Fletcher freely adapted French Frenchman gaiety gallant Harpagon humors Ibid imitation incidents influence of Molière interest Jacobean Jonson L'Avare L'École des Femmes L'École des Maris L'Étourdi Lacy Lady Le Dépit Amoureux Le Mariage Forcé Le Misanthrope Le Tartuffe Les Femmes Savantes Les Précieuses Ridicules London Lord Love for Love lover Mariage Forcé Médecin Misanthrope mistress Molière Molière's comedy Molière's method Monsieur de Pourceaugnac original Paris passages Pepys period Plain Dealer play playwrights plot Précieuses Ridicules presented Ravenscroft Restoration comedy satire scene servant Sganarelle Shadwell Shakspere Sir Fopling Flutter society Spanish spirit Tartuffe taste theater Thomas tion Vanbrugh Wycherley Wycherley's
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Página 185 - His style is inimitable, nay perfect. It is the highest model of comic dialogue. Every sentence is replete with sense and satire, conveyed in the most polished and pointed terms. Every page presents a shower of brilliant conceits, is a tissue of epigrams in prose, is a new triumph of wit, a new conquest over dulness.
Página 175 - ... easy and pliant to each other in discourse. Thus, insensibly, our way of living became more free ; and the fire of the English wit, which...
Página 52 - ... of late, the playhouses are so extremely pestered with vizard-masks and their trade (occasioning continual quarrels and abuses), that many of the more civilised part of the town are uneasy in the company, and shun the theatre as they would a house of scandal.
Página 187 - I'm like to be finely fobbed, — if I have got anger here upon your account, and you are tacked about already. — What d'ye mean, after all your fair speeches and stroking my cheeks, and kissing, and hugging, what, would you sheer off so?
Página 186 - ... much studied, and in the mechanical part so much improved since then. It bears every mark of being what he himself in the dedication of one of his plays tells us that it was, a spirited copy taken off and carefully revised from the most select society of his time, exhibiting all the sprightliness, ease, and animation of familiar conversation, with the correctness and delicacy of the most finished composition.
Página 137 - Peace, Medley : I have wished it lower a thousand times, but a pox on't, 'twill not be.
Página 164 - Mr. Foresight, let not the prospect of worldly lucre carry you beyond your judgment, nor against your conscience : — you are not satisfied that you act justly.
Página 187 - You are the reflection of heaven in a pond, and he that leaps at you is sunk. You are all white, a sheet of lovely spotless paper, when you first are born; but you are to be scrawled and blotted by every goose's quill. I know you; for I loved a woman, and loved her so long that I found out a strange thing: I found out what a woman was good for.
Página 188 - But I can accuse you of uncertainty, for not telling me whether you did or not. Ang. You mistake indifference for uncertainty ; I never had concern enough to ask myself the question.
Página 137 - The gloves ? Sir Fop. Orangerie: you know the smell, ladies. Dorimant, I could find in my heart for an amusement to have a gallantry with some of our English ladies.