Alterations and Adaptations of ShakespeareR.G. Badger, 1910 - 186 pages |
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Alterations and Adaptations of Shakespeare (1906) Frederick Wilkinson Kilbourne No preview available - 2008 |
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abridged acted at Drury acters adaptation additions Alcibiades Angelo Antony Antony and Cleopatra Aufidius Beatrice Benedick Biron borrowed changes char characters Cibber Clarinna Cleopatra Cloten comedy comic Cordelia Coriolanus Cymbeline D'Avenant's death Dennis dialogue diction disguise dramatic Drury Lane Duke Durfey Edgar and Cordelia Edmund enters Eugenia Falstaff Fifth Act Fourth Act Garrick Genest given Gloucester Goneril Hamlet Henry Iachimo Imogen improve introduced Julius Cæsar Kemble kills King Lear Lady Laertes last scene latter lines Macbeth Macduff Marius Junior Measure for Measure Melissa Molière omission omitted opera original Pericles Philario Pisanio plot poetical justice Posthumus prologue Queen Regan rejected Restoration revision Richard Richard III Romeo and Juliet says scene of Act Second Act second scene Shadwell Shadwell's Shake Shakespeare Shakespeare's play soliloquy song speare speare's play stage taste Tate Tate's tells Tempest theatre Third Act third scene Timon and Evandra tion tragedy unity Ursaces Volumnia
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Page 53 - Merciful Heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Split'st the unwedgeable and gnarled oak Than the soft myrtle: but man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured, His glassy essence, like an angry ape, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep; who, with our spleens, Would all themselves laugh mortal.
Page 165 - Shakespeare has suffered the virtue of Cordelia to perish in a just cause, contrary to the natural ideas of justice, to the hope of the reader, and, what is yet more strange, to the faith of chronicles.
Page 159 - This renders Cordelia's Indifference and her Father's Passion in the first Scene probable. It likewise gives Countenance to Edgar's Disguise, making that a generous Design that was before a poor Shift to save his Life.
Page 28 - And, therefore, to put the last hand to it, he designed the counterpart to Shakespeare's plot, namely, that of a man who had never seen a woman ; that by this means those two characters of innocence and love might the more illustrate and commend each other.
Page 166 - A play in which the wicked prosper, and the virtuous miscarry, may doubtless be good because it is a just representation of the common events of human life: but since all reasonable beings naturally love justice, I cannot easily be persuaded that the observation of justice makes a play worse; or that if other excellencies are equal the audience will not always rise better pleased from the final triumph of persecuted virtue.
Page 17 - But love is only one of many passions, and as it has no great influence upon the sum of life, it has little operation in the dramas of a poet, who caught his ideas from the living world, and exhibited only what he saw before him. He knew, that any other passion, as it was regular or exorbitant, was a cause of happiness or calamity.
Page 166 - In the present case the public has decided. Cordelia, from the time of Tate, has always retired with victory and felicity : and if my sensations could add any thing to the general suffrage, I might relate, I was many years ago so shocked by Cordelia's death, that I know not whether I ever endured to read again the last scenes of the play till I undertook to revise them as an editor.
Page 151 - And killing my own rest, it would suffice, But deeds of this complexion still return To plague the doer, and destroy his peace ; Yet, let me think ! he's here in double trust.
Page 113 - I new-modeled the plot, threw out many unnecessary persons, improved those characters which were begun and left unfinished, as Hector, Troilus, Pandarus, and Thersites, and added that of Andromache.
Page 8 - Dream, which I had never seen before, nor shall ever again, for it is the most insipid ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life.