Clowns and PantomimesConstable, 1925 - 343 pagini |
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Pagina vii
... SHAKESPEARE VERSUS HARLEQUIN XVI . LEGEND XVII . BURLESQUE AND EXTRAVAGANZA XVIII . PANTOMIME'S POSSIBILITIES INDEX . 221 • 232 249 275 301 • 321 333 ILLUSTRATIONS FACING PAGE Frontispiece JOSEPH GRIMALDI CLOWNS OF THE FOURTH.
... SHAKESPEARE VERSUS HARLEQUIN XVI . LEGEND XVII . BURLESQUE AND EXTRAVAGANZA XVIII . PANTOMIME'S POSSIBILITIES INDEX . 221 • 232 249 275 301 • 321 333 ILLUSTRATIONS FACING PAGE Frontispiece JOSEPH GRIMALDI CLOWNS OF THE FOURTH.
Pagina xix
... Shakespeare's showman- ship is incomparable . His plays are written at such high pressure that laughter is a necessary safety - valve for romance . Yet before Shakespeare's death the shifting of the appeal from the people to the court ...
... Shakespeare's showman- ship is incomparable . His plays are written at such high pressure that laughter is a necessary safety - valve for romance . Yet before Shakespeare's death the shifting of the appeal from the people to the court ...
Pagina 23
... Shakespeare's " material fools " are living examples of how it profits a man to lose his wits , but he does not illustrate the theory in action though the reverse joke inspires many of his comic scenes . Joy has been omitted from the ...
... Shakespeare's " material fools " are living examples of how it profits a man to lose his wits , but he does not illustrate the theory in action though the reverse joke inspires many of his comic scenes . Joy has been omitted from the ...
Pagina 27
... Shakespeare 1 Dr. Doran's " History of Court Fools " -based to a certain extent on Flögel | and other laborious seekers after humour - is an exhaustive treatise on jesters . } dubs clown , because in his day the servant licensed 27.
... Shakespeare 1 Dr. Doran's " History of Court Fools " -based to a certain extent on Flögel | and other laborious seekers after humour - is an exhaustive treatise on jesters . } dubs clown , because in his day the servant licensed 27.
Pagina 31
... Shakespeare's Yorick , arte . When he in pleasant wise , The counterfet expreste Of clowne , with cote of russet hew , And sturtops with the reste , and he introduced breeches into fashion : 44 When Tarlton clown'd it in a pleasant ...
... Shakespeare's Yorick , arte . When he in pleasant wise , The counterfet expreste Of clowne , with cote of russet hew , And sturtops with the reste , and he introduced breeches into fashion : 44 When Tarlton clown'd it in a pleasant ...
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Pagina 275 - Think what you would have been now, if, instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history!
Pagina 42 - How monie hearts this day converts O' sinners and o' lasses ! Their hearts o' stane, gin night, are gane As saft as ony flesh is. There's some are f'ou o...
Pagina 84 - Be of your patron's mind, whate'er he says ; Sleep very much ; think little ; and talk less ; Mind neither good nor bad, nor right nor wrong, But eat your pudding, slave; and hold your tongue.
Pagina 113 - Anderson. Like vaulting ambition, I have overleaped myself, and pay the penalty in an advanced old age. If I have now any aptitude for tumbling, it is through bodily infirmity, for I am worse on my feet than I used to be on my head. It is four years since I jumped my last jump — filched my last oyster — boiled my last sausage — and set in for retirement.
Pagina 65 - True fops help nature's work, and go to school, To file and finish God Almighty's fool. Yet none Sir Fopling him, or him can call ; 1s He's knight o' the shire, and represents ye all. From each he meets he culls whate'er he can ; Legion's his name, a people in a man. His bulky folly gathers as it goes, And, rolling o'er you, like a snowball grows. 20 His various modes from various fathers follow ; One taught the toss, and one the new French wallow : His swordknot this, his cravat that design'd ;...
Pagina 70 - Their predecessors were contented to make serving-men only their stage-fools: but these rogues must have gentlemen, with a pox to 'em, nay, knights; and, indeed, you shall hardly see a fool upon the stage but he's a knight...
Pagina 68 - Some talk of things of state, of puling stuff; There's nothing in a play to* a clown, if he Have the grace to hit on't ; that's the thing indeed : The king shows well, but he sets off the king.
Pagina 280 - Observe, the audience is in pain, While Punch is hid behind the scene; But when they hear his rusty voice, With what impatience they rejoice! And then they value not two straws How Solomon decides the cause, Which the true mother, which Pretender...
Pagina 269 - The next play to which I was taken was the Lady of the Manor, of which, with the exception of some scenery, very faint traces are left in my memory. It was followed by a pantomime, called Lun's Ghost — a satiric touch, I apprehend, upon Rich, not long since dead — but to my apprehension (too sincere for satire), Lun was as remote a piece of antiquity as Lud — the father of a line of Harlequins — transmitting his dagger of lath (the wooden sceptre) through countless ages.
Pagina 84 - I must observe, that there is a set of merry drolls, whom the common people of all countries admire, and seem to love so well,