| William Shakespeare - 1905 - 702 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... | |
| 1909 - 384 páginas
...despise the other.' Speaking of Mr. Shakespear's Plots, he says they were lame, 1 and that 'many of them were made up of some ridiculous, incoherent Story,...many times took up the business of an Age. I suppose (says he) I need not name Per1cles Prince of Tyre, nor the Historical Plays of Shakespear; 5 Besides... | |
| Joel Elias Spingarn - 1909 - 678 páginas
...pag. 146. SP1NOARN III I Mr. Shakespear1 's Plots, he says they were lame,1 and that 'many of them were made up of some ridiculous, incoherent Story,...many times took up the business of an Age. I suppose (says he) I need not name Pericles Prince of Tyre, nor the Historical Plays of Shakespear ; 5 Besides... | |
| John James Munro - 1909 - 612 páginas
...was then, if not in its infancy among us, at least not arriv'd to its vigor and maturity : witness the lameness of their plots : many of which, especially those which they writ first, (for even that age refin'd itself in some measure,) were made up of some ridiculous, incoherent story, which, in one play... | |
| William Shakespeare - 1909 - 172 páginas
...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... | |
| John Dryden, George Villiers Duke of Buckingham - 1910 - 582 páginas
...Poetry was then, if not in its infancy among us. at least not arriv'd to its vigor and maturity. Witness the lameness of their plots; many of which, especially those which they writ first (for even that age refin'd itself in some 20 measure), were made up of some ridiculous, incoherent story, which in one... | |
| John Dryden - 1926 - 414 páginas
...then, if not in its infancy among us, at least not 2 ° arrived to its vigour and maturity: witness the lameness of their plots; many of which, especially...ridiculous incoherent story, which in one play many tunes took 25 up the business of an age. I suppose I need not name Pericles, Prince of Tyre, nor the... | |
| 1936 - 712 páginas
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| John Dryden - 1949 - 470 páginas
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