We had supposed that we had learned that lesson not only from Gluck and Wagner, but from every true musical dramatist that ever lived!
The philosopher of Ferney was anxious to see and converse with a brotherdramatist of such celebrity as the author of 'The Way of the World.
The young dramatist with all his success, was not satisfied with his fame, and resolved to show the world that he had as much poetry as wit in him.
If he draw from any other work of the dramatist he only produces secondary art, as when he draws from the novelist.
But these are all the defects which can be fairly urged against him; and in a dramatist bound to a less strict service they would hardly have been even remarked.
On the other hand, it was during the early and middle part of his career impossible, and during the later part very difficult, for a dramatist to live decently by his pieces.
Then began a correspondence with the dramatist and actor.
So hard does the faith of the unsuccessful dramatist die.
This in time resulted in an amicable arrangement, by which the dramatist agreed to dispose of his version to Clemens.
Had he been less, we should have had to consider how well he filled his place, how good a dramatist he was, and he is the best in the world.
It may seem a paradox, but I cannot help being of opinion that the plays of Shakespeare are less calculated for performance on a stage, than those of almost any other dramatist whatever.
But no other dramatisthas succeeded in such an aim.
There is life enough, there is action enough, in single plays of Shakespeare to set up an ancient dramatist for a long career.
Compare the petty indignation, with which the dramatist of The School for Scandal deals with his scandalmongers, and the amused indifference of Congreve towards the cabalists in The Way of the World.
Her equipment as a dramatist was surprisingly slender, as until the time of her engagement to Mr. Edgren she had never visited the theatre, and necessarily was absolutely ignorant of the technique of the stage.
There is in her no great tragic fatalism, which makes the art of the Greek dramatist so deeply and overwhelmingly tragic.
But at this point in the play, when the tragic complication really begins, the dramatist must dismiss Mercutio from the stage, as he does with Falstaff after Prince Hal has become King.
The dramatist had no further use for him after the quarrel with Tybalt which leads to his death.
They think that thedramatist speaks through Friar Laurence when he warns them against haste in the marriage (ii.
He sniffed at the idea of Peter, but the dramatist impressed him slightly.
Peter knows so much about life from his literary researches that it goes off and hides from him when he sets out in search for it, and I understood immediately what the great dramatist meant, though Peter probably did not.
This was an unusual thing at the time and had been attempted by no dramatist before Jonson.
The last years of the reign of Elizabeth thus saw Jonson recognised as a dramatist second only to Shakespeare, and not second even to him as a dramatic satirist.
Sheridan, who had a poor opinion of it, advised the dramatistto keep the specter out of the last scene.
Young Germany fastened upon and appropriated the great English dramatist with passionate conviction.
Spanish dramatist and poet, was born at Madrid about the beginning of the 17th century.
The 1822 edition of his Theatre et poesies fugitives contains a notice by his friend the dramatist Andrieux.
His career as politician, literary man, and practical dramatist combined, seems in some sort a foreshadowing of that of Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
Congreve was beyond comparison the greatest English comic dramatist of his time.
A dramatist may take the mere outline of some ancient legend and fill it with modern thought and sentiment.
The German dramatist has also idealized Don Carlos to an extent that renders recognition difficult; and he has flung a halo round William Tell which will cling to the name while Switzerland is a country or patriotism any better than a name.
A Mr. Motley, a well-known dramatist of that day, was employed to collect all the stray jests then current on the town.
Perhaps he was such an uncommonly black-hearted villain, so very, very cold-blooded in his wickedness that the justice unsparingly dealt out to him by the dramatist could not suffice.
Probably no dramatist ever needed the stage less, and none ever brought more to it.
Hagberg, accompanied by forty volumes of the Society’s publications, all relating to the great dramatist and the state of dramatic art in his time.
But much more illustrious persons, who were forced by the genius of this dramatist into his plots, were induced to lend their names and sanction to these little unobtrusive performances of his, when occasion served.
