Volpone: Or, The FoxYale University Press, 1919 - Počet stran: 254 This Revels Student Edition, with a carefully modernized text, presents new material about "Volpone" 's debt to the popular Reynard beast epic and Italian "commedia dell 'art" and discusses its mockery of greed in relation to two Renaissance perversions of the myth of a Golden Age. Referring to famous productions, it pays particular attention to decisions that must be made whenever the play is performed. |
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Strana xxv
... Paracelsus were the sources of numerous passages in Volpone ; and these same authors were used as well in The Alchemist and the Masques , for material on alchemy and magic . Of course , Erasmus , Para- celsus , and Cornelius Agrippa are ...
... Paracelsus were the sources of numerous passages in Volpone ; and these same authors were used as well in The Alchemist and the Masques , for material on alchemy and magic . Of course , Erasmus , Para- celsus , and Cornelius Agrippa are ...
Strana xliv
... Paracelsus . It is significant that the scene contains a quotation from the preface of Paracelsus ' De Generatione Stultorum , a work naturally suggesting itself in connection with Erasmus ' satire on fools . Paracelsus ' language was ...
... Paracelsus . It is significant that the scene contains a quotation from the preface of Paracelsus ' De Generatione Stultorum , a work naturally suggesting itself in connection with Erasmus ' satire on fools . Paracelsus ' language was ...
Strana 179
... Paracelsus , but many others might be given . are imitated from Andrew Borde , ' a physician of. 2.2 . 8-13 Pitie his ignorance , etc. With this speech com- pare the second sentence from Erasmus quoted above . 2.2 . 15 Made all of termes ...
... Paracelsus , but many others might be given . are imitated from Andrew Borde , ' a physician of. 2.2 . 8-13 Pitie his ignorance , etc. With this speech com- pare the second sentence from Erasmus quoted above . 2.2 . 15 Made all of termes ...
Strana 180
... Paracelsus has made me think it possible that there may be some uncomplimentary reference to him in the latter's works ; but I have not been able to find any such mention . 2.2.47 a ' Sforzato . ' John Florio in his Queen Anna's New ...
... Paracelsus has made me think it possible that there may be some uncomplimentary reference to him in the latter's works ; but I have not been able to find any such mention . 2.2.47 a ' Sforzato . ' John Florio in his Queen Anna's New ...
Strana 181
... Paracelsus at his rivals , doubtless furnished the reason for its use here . 2.2.75 canaglia . ' Old Florio is gloriously scornful in his definition of this word : " Canaglia , raskaly people only fit for dogs company . " 1611 ' - C ...
... Paracelsus at his rivals , doubtless furnished the reason for its use here . 2.2.75 canaglia . ' Old Florio is gloriously scornful in his definition of this word : " Canaglia , raskaly people only fit for dogs company . " 1611 ' - C ...
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Strana xxix - And howsoever some may squeamishly cry out, that all endeavour of learning and sharpness in these transitory devices, especially where it steps beyond their little, or (let me not wrong them,) no brain at all, is superfluous ; I am contented, these fastidious stomachs should leave my full tables, and enjoy at home their clean empty trenchers, fittest for such airy tastes ; where perhaps a few Italian herbs, picked up and made into a sallad, may find sweeter acceptance than all the most nourishing...
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Strana xxv - Upon their actions : and that this was one I make no scruple.— But the holy synod Have been in prayer and meditation for it; And 'tis reveal'd no less to them than me, That casting of money is most lawful.
Strana 7 - I take him, is no subject for pride and ignorance to exercise their railing rhetoric upon. But it will here be hastily answered, that the writers of these days are other things; that not only their manners, but their natures, are inverted, and nothing remaining...
Strana xlviii - I would have shown To all the world the art which thou alone Hast taught our tongue, the rules of time, of place. And other rites, delivered with the grace Of comic style, which only is far more Than any English stage hath known before.
Strana 199 - That he thought not Bartas a Poet, but a Verser, because he wrote not fiction. " He cursed Petrarch for redacting verses to Sonnets ; which he said were like that Tirrant's bed, wher some who where too short were racked, others too long cut short.
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