 | Francis Douce - Gesta Romanorum - 1807 - 528 pages
...mingled kings and clowns, " not," says he, " because the matter so carieth it, but thrust in the clou'ne by head and shoulders to play a part in majestical matters, with neither decencie nor discretion : sd as neither the admiration and commiseration, nor the right sportfulnesse... | |
 | Francis Douce - Gesta Romanorum - 1807 - 540 pages
...mingled kings and clowns, " not," says he, " because the matter so carieth it, but thrust in the downs by head and shoulders to play a part in majestical matters, with neither decencie nor discretion : so as neither the admiration and commiseration, nor the right sportfulnesse... | |
 | William Shakespeare - English drama (Comedy) - 1872 - 480 pages
...comedies, mingling kings and clowns, not because the matter so carrieth it, but thrust in the clown by head and shoulders, to play a part in majestical matters with neither decency nor discretion." From all which it is evident enough that very little if any heed was then paid to dramatic propriety... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1821 - 570 pages
...thrust in the clowne by head and shoulders to play a part in majestical matters, with neither decencie nor discretion : so as neither the admiration and commiseration, nor the right sportfulnesse is by their mongrell tragi-comedie obtained 4." William Rankin, a puritan, and contemporary... | |
 | William Shakespeare - Actors - 1825 - 1010 pages
...mingled kings and clowns, "not," says he, " because the matter so carrieth it, but thrust in the clotme y let ns prepare Same welcome for the mistress of the house. /.';.) LAUN decencie nor discretion: so as neither the admiration and commisseration. nor the right sportfulnesse,... | |
 | sir Walter Scott (bart [prose, collected]) - 1827 - 488 pages
...head and shoulders, to play a part in magestical matters, with neither decency nor discretion, so that neither the admiration and commiseration, nor the right sportfulness, is by their mongrel tragic-comedy attained." (Defence of Poesie Sidney's Arcadia, edit. 1627, p. 563.) " If we mark them... | |
 | English literature - 1831 - 368 pages
...comedies, mingling kings and clowns, not because the matter so carrieth it, but thrust in the clown by head and shoulders to play a part in majestical...sportfulness, is by their mongrel tragi-comedy obtained. I know Apuleius did somewhat so, but that is a thing recounted with space of time, not represented... | |
 | John Payne Collier - English drama - 1831 - 506 pages
...of impropriety in older plays in his Humorous Days Mirth, 1599. In the first scene Lemot ' jestical matters with neither decency nor discretion ; ' so as neither the admiration and commiseration, nor ' right sportfulness is by their mongrel tragicomedy ' obtained *.' So much with regard to the matter... | |
 | Sir Walter Scott - France - 1834 - 418 pages
...head and shoulders, to play a part in magestical matters, with neither decency nor discretion, so that neither the admiration and commiseration, nor the right sportfulness, is by their mongrel tragic-comedy attained." (Defence of Poesie, Sidney's Arcadia, edit. 1627, p. 563.) " If we mark them... | |
 | Francis Douce - Clowns in literature - 1839 - 678 pages
...mingled kings and clowns, " not," says he, " because the matter so carieth it, but thrust in the downe by head and shoulders to play a part in majestical matters, with neither decencie nor discretion: so as neither the admiration and commiseration, nor the right sportfulnesse... | |
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But besides these gross absurdities, how all their plays be neither right tragedies, nor right comedies, mingling kings and clowns, not because the matter so carrieth it, but thrust in clowns by head and shoulders, to play a part in majestical matters,... 
