 | Albert Henry Smyth - 1898 - 112 páginas
...Prologue to The Conquest of Granada by the Spaniards, speaking of the early plays as notable for " some ridiculous incoherent story, which, in one play, many times took up the business of an age," supposes he "need not name Pericles, Prince of Tyre nor the historical plays of Shakespeare." In June,... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1899
...contemporaries of Etherege. Dryden singles it out, with the English histories collectively, as a type of the 'ridiculous incoherent story which in one play many times took up the business of an age ' ; and in an unfortunate, but often-quoted, line used it to illustrate the contention that no first... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1899
...contemporaries of Etherege. Dryden singles it out, with the English histories collectively, as a type of the 'ridiculous incoherent story which in one play many times took up the business of an age ' ; and in an unfortunate, but often-quoted, line used it to illustrate the contention that no first... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900
...then, if not in its infancy among us, at least not 20 arrived to its vigour and maturity : witness the lameness of their plots; many of which, especially...incoherent story, which in one play many times took 25 up the business of an age. I suppose I need not name Pericles, Prince of Tyre, nor the historical... | |
 | John Dryden - 1900
...then, if not in its infancy among us, at least not 20 arrived to its vigour and maturity : witness the lameness of their plots ; many of which, especially...incoherent story, which in one play many times took 25 up the business of an age. I suppose I need not name Pericles, Prince of Tyre, nor the historical... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1905
...Plays of Shakespeare* as illustrative of the awkward practice of dramatists of the past in working on 'some ridiculous, incoherent story, which in one play many times took up the business of an age '. The censure is fully applicable to Pericles. The play was produced in the spring of i<Jo8 at the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1905
...Plays of Shakespeare' as illustrative of the awkward practice of dramatists of the past in working on ' some ridiculous, incoherent story, which in one play many times took up the business of an age'. The censure is fully applicable to Pericles. The play was produced in the spring of irfoS at the ShakeGlobe... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1905 - 75 páginas
...Plays of Shakespeare' as illustrative of the awkward practice of dramatists of the past in working on «some ridiculous, incoherent story, which in one play many times took up the business of an age '. The censure is fully applicable to Pericles. The play was produced in the spring of 1608 at the... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1909
...contemporaries of Etherege. Dryden singles it out, with the English histories collectively, as a type of the "ridiculous incoherent story which in one play many times took up the business of an age"; and in an unfortunate, but often-quoted, line used it to illustrate the contention that no first plays... | |
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Witness the lameness of their plots ; many of which, especially those which they writ first (for even that age refined itself in some measure), were made up of some ridiculous incoherent story, which in one play many times took up the business of an age. 
