| Nancy Klein Maguire - 1992 - 296 lapas
...plays. Underscoring his commercial success, Dryden points out that Fletcher's 'Playes are now the most pleasant and frequent entertainments of the Stage;...acted through the year for one of Shakespeare's or Jonsons' (xv\r.^j). Judging from these statistics, to a considerable extent at least, the playwrights... | |
| Mary Beth Rose - 1997 - 184 lapas
...even through the Restoration their position remained unthreatened: " [ t ] heir plays are now the most pleasant and frequent entertainments of the stage;...through the year for one of Shakespeare's or Jonson's" (69). 6 Modern attempts to come to grips with the phenomenon of Beaumont and Fletcher have tended to... | |
| Deborah Payne Fisk - 2000 - 326 lapas
...Credits the last, and entertains this Age.31 Dryden points out that Fletcher's "Plays are now the most pleasant and frequent entertainments of the Stage; two of theirs being acted through the 94 year for one of Shakespeare's or Johnsons" (xvn, 57). Of the 105 plays revived in the first decade... | |
| Paul Hammond - 2002 - 484 lapas
...words have since been taken in, are rather superfluous than necessary. Their plays are now the most pleasant and frequent entertainments of the stage;...more serious plays, which suits generally with all men's humours. Shakespeare's language is likewise a little obsolete, and Ben Jonson's wit comes short... | |
| John Dryden - 2003 - 1024 lapas
...words have since been taken in are rather superfluous than necessary. Their plays are now the most pleasant and frequent entertainments of the stage,...acted through the year for one of Shakespeare's or Jonson 's. The reason is because there is a certain gaiety in their comedies, and pathos in their more... | |
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