Leigh Hunt's Dramatic Criticism, 1808-1831, Volume 10Columbia University Press, 1949 - 347 pages |
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Page 4
... humour though it appears as broad as mere farce is rendered equally natural . This is the effect of giving proper characters their proper language . Characters in fact may always be found which may sanction the lowest humour as well as ...
... humour though it appears as broad as mere farce is rendered equally natural . This is the effect of giving proper characters their proper language . Characters in fact may always be found which may sanction the lowest humour as well as ...
Page 5
... humour in this play would become perfect farce in any other persons but a set of old , ignorant , inefficient watch- men , whose constable of the night is as miserably senseless and conceited as his lowness of life and his shadow of ...
... humour in this play would become perfect farce in any other persons but a set of old , ignorant , inefficient watch- men , whose constable of the night is as miserably senseless and conceited as his lowness of life and his shadow of ...
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... humour- for this is his proper appellation ; he seems to belong and to be made out of humour itself , and not a person assuming particu- lar characters and putting on just as much humour as suits him ; he always looks as if he could not ...
... humour- for this is his proper appellation ; he seems to belong and to be made out of humour itself , and not a person assuming particu- lar characters and putting on just as much humour as suits him ; he always looks as if he could not ...
Contents
CRITICISM ON SHAKSPEARES MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING | 3 |
MR YOUNGS MERITS CONSIDERED | 21 |
THE CONSCIOUS LOVERS | 35 |
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