The Complete Works of William Hazlitt, Volume 6J.M. Dent, 1931 |
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Page 68
... dramatic writers about this time , before we arrive at the golden period of our comedy . Those of Etherege1 are good for nothing , except The Man of Mode , or Sir Fopling Flutter , which is , I think , a more exquisite and airy picture ...
... dramatic writers about this time , before we arrive at the golden period of our comedy . Those of Etherege1 are good for nothing , except The Man of Mode , or Sir Fopling Flutter , which is , I think , a more exquisite and airy picture ...
Page 192
... DRAMATIC WRITERS CONTEMPORARY WITH SHAKESPEAR , LYLY , MARLOW , HEYWOOD , MIDDLETON , AND ROWLEY THE period of which I shall have to treat ( from the Reformation to the middle of Charles 1. ) was prolific in dramatic excellence , even ...
... DRAMATIC WRITERS CONTEMPORARY WITH SHAKESPEAR , LYLY , MARLOW , HEYWOOD , MIDDLETON , AND ROWLEY THE period of which I shall have to treat ( from the Reformation to the middle of Charles 1. ) was prolific in dramatic excellence , even ...
Page 240
... dramatic genius than Deckar , if he had the same originality ; and perhaps is so , even without it . His White Devil and Duchess of Malfy , upon the whole perhaps , come the nearest to Shakespear of any thing we have upon record ; the ...
... dramatic genius than Deckar , if he had the same originality ; and perhaps is so , even without it . His White Devil and Duchess of Malfy , upon the whole perhaps , come the nearest to Shakespear of any thing we have upon record ; the ...
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