Leigh Hunt's Dramatic Criticism, 1808-1831, Volume 10Columbia University Press, 1949 - 347 pages |
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... Young 2 has been endeavouring for some days past to exhibit the lustre of high tragedy . His performance of Othello ... Young's various performances his Macbeth and his Gamester , the one as a criterion of his 3 powers in loftier tragedy ...
... Young 2 has been endeavouring for some days past to exhibit the lustre of high tragedy . His performance of Othello ... Young's various performances his Macbeth and his Gamester , the one as a criterion of his 3 powers in loftier tragedy ...
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... Young are so excellently qualified , and he managed to give a personal character to the idea of the ghost , by just rising slowly and shrinkingly as if preparing to glide , without precisely acting the description , which would have ...
... Young are so excellently qualified , and he managed to give a personal character to the idea of the ghost , by just rising slowly and shrinkingly as if preparing to glide , without precisely acting the description , which would have ...
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... Young was more successful , because the character did not require so much variety ; and in domestic tragedy , somewhat of passion is less necessary than in the poet- ical drama . If Mr. Young's manners are not exactly adapted to heroism ...
... Young was more successful , because the character did not require so much variety ; and in domestic tragedy , somewhat of passion is less necessary than in the poet- ical drama . If Mr. Young's manners are not exactly adapted to heroism ...
Contents
CRITICISM ON SHAKSPEARES MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING | 3 |
MR YOUNGS MERITS CONSIDERED | 21 |
THE CONSCIOUS LOVERS | 35 |
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