...living place and principle of continuity in the play, till it is become to me a perfect dead member. It may seem a paradox, but I cannot help being of...whatever. Their distinguishing excellence is a reason that th"y should be so. There Is so much in them, which comes not under the province of acting ; with which,...

...living place and principle of continuity in the play, till it is become to me a perfect dead member. It may seem a paradox, but I cannot help being of...than those of almost any other dramatist whatever. Tkeir distinguishing excellence is a reason that they should be so. There is so much in them, which...

...living place and principle" "of 'continuity in the play, till it is become to me a perfect dead member. It may seem a paradox, but I cannot help being of...excellence is a reason that they should be so. There ia so much in them, which comes not under the province of acting, with which eye, and tone, and gesture,...

...living place and principle of continuity in the play, till it is become to me a perfect dead member. It may seem a paradox, but I cannot help being of opinion that the plays of Shakspeave are less calculated for performance on a stage, than those of almost any other dramatist...

...OF SHAK.SPEARE.* CHARLES LAMB lias devoted one of his admirable essays to maintaining the position, that the plays of Shakspeare are less calculated for...dramatist whatever. " Their distinguishing excellence," he argues, " is a reason that they should be so. There is so much in them, which comes not under the...

...cannot help being of opinion," says this essayist, " that the plays of Shakspeare are less caleulated for performance on a stage than those of almost any other dramatist whatever. How are the love dialogues of Romeo and Juliet, by the inherent fault of stagerepresentation, sullied...

...distinctness. 'When tbe.novelty is past, we find to our cost that instead of realising an idea, we have only materialised and brought down a fine vision...dramatist whatever. Their distinguishing excellence is.a reason that they should be so. There is so much in them,, which comes not under the province of...

...living place and principle of continuity in the play, till it is become to me a perfect dead member. It may seem a paradox, but I cannot help being of opinion that the plays of Shakspeire are less calculated for performance on a stage, than those of almost any other dramatist...

...LLOYD seems almost to have been written in answer to LAMB in his Essay On the Tragedies of Shakespeare: 'It may seem a paradox, but I cannot help being of opinion that the plays of Shakespeare are less calculated for performance on a stage than those of almost any dramatist whatever....

...Darstellers, entgeistigt, vergröbert, durch die angestrengteste Verkörperung materialisirt werden. ,,It may seem a paradox, but I cannot help being of opinion that the plays of Sh. are best calculated for performance on a stage, than those of almost any other dramatist whatever"...