 | 1847 - 368 lapas
...is the regular exordium of an epic poem. Such was the state of the English theatre, when all at once the true drama received birth and perfection from the creative genius of Shakspeare, Fletcher, Ben Jonson, and others, upon whose merits it is unnecessary to enlarge. The former,... | |
 | Allardyce Nicoll - 2002 - 200 lapas
...h1story of the English stage, does not combat the prevailing opinion : Now, as it were, all at once . . . the true Drama received Birth and Perfection from the creative Genius of Shakespear, Fletcher and Johnson.1'' Much the same story was told by Bishop Percy in his essay 'On... | |
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... upon a footing with the other nations of Europe. But now, as it were, all at once (as it happened in France, though in a much later period), the true drama received birth and perfection from the creative genius of Shakspeare, Fletcher... 
