Other remarkable playwrights belonging to the Freie Buhne group are Max Halbe (b.
One or two playwrights of the new generation, however, did not actually belong to the Freie Buhne group.
What was of more importance, a new generation of playwrights came to the front.
Colman[254] had in them something of the spirit of genuine comedy, besides a finish which, however playwrightsmay shut their eyes to the fact, is one of the qualities which ensure a long life to a play.
Later playwrights have imitated him in this, and we have grown used to it; but thirty years ago such minuteness seemed extravagant and needless.
The playwrights repeated what the newspapers said.
So the playwrights make one or two of us appear on the stage just in time to arouse in our mamma a sense of duty to her children and to prevent the elopement.
From hints in prologues and prefaces we are able to discern that playwrights chafed against these traditional limitations of the Commedia Erudita.
Taking the intrigue of Latin comedy for their ground material, these playwrights adapted it to conditions of Italian society.
In spite of their mutual hostility, this game of battledore and shuttlecock between Chiari and Goldoni enabled the literary Conservatives to regard both playwrights as flying under one flag.
The professional playwrights sold their plays outright to one or other of the acting companies, and they retained no legal interest in them after the manuscript had passed into the hands of the theatrical manager.
Part of the structural defects of the play are due to one of those exigencies to which the Elizabethan playwrights were peculiarly liable.
He can't attempt to tell the fledgling playwrights what things to say and, of course, he doesn't.
If the actors and the playwrights know the tricks of the business, they soon lift each impressionable person from his seat and carry him spiritually right into the center of the happenings.
If theplaywrights find it advantageous to double up, and the novelists do not discover any profit in putting on double harness, there ought to be some evident explanation.
On the other hand, it must be noted as significant that the playwrights are not tempted to turn novelists; they seem to be satisfied with their own art as the more exacting, and therefore the more interesting.
As playwrights they were the direct heirs of the anonymous and ignorant devisers of the medieval drama.
Indeed, the women playwrights of the past and of the present might be two or three times more numerous than they are, and two or three times more important without even treading upon the heels of the male play-makers.
In other words, the female playwrights are so few and so unimportant that a conscientious historian of either French or English dramatic literature might almost neglect them altogether without seriously invalidating his survey.
And why is it that the infrequent plays produced by women playwrights rarely attain high rank?
Before considering this question, it may be well to record that women playwrights have appeared sporadically both in French literature and in English.
I wonder, as I scan my programme, whether the monastic playwrights of old ever published encomiums on their weird productions by prominent highwaymen.
Oh, my friend, my friend, you talk of "losses" as though you playwrights had a monopoly of it.
But the playwrights appealed from the critics to the truer sympathies of the audience, and they decided for freedom and action, rather than restraint and recitation.
His plays are slovenly and careless in construction, and he puts classical allusions into the mouths of milkmaids and serving boys, with the grotesque pedantry and want of keeping common among the {107} playwrights of the early stage.
There is, and during a long time has been, a mania among playwrights for putting aristocratic characters upon the stage.
The Théâtre de l'Oeuvre gave to French revolutionaries in dramatic art the chance of setting the Seine on fire, but the Censor has allowed our playwrights little scope.
The great dramatist's action in this respect is not, as a general rule, followed by the serious playwrights of the present.
Which of our playwrights does not envy the licence of a Capus?
We have few playwrightsso earnest as Mr Jerome, few actors or managers with such high ideals as those of Mr Forbes Robertson.
It was naturally my desire to have all the distinctive American playwrights represented in the present collection.
This is to be regretted, inasmuch as nearly all of the most prominent American playwrights are represented, either in the publication of isolated plays or in definitive editions.
Into the region of the Ballad the comic playwrights have made comparatively few incursions.
We have already seen that, in burlesquing mythology, faerie, and other matters, our comic playwrights have not been able to resist the temptation to introduce occasional travesties of things operatic.
There were traces of it, we may be sure, in the Mysteries and Moralities of pre-Elizabethan days; the monkish dramatists were not devoid of humour, and the first lay playwrights had a rough sense of ridicule.
The woman came up and had a long talk with Frohman, during which she gave her impressions, not very flattering, of British playwrights in general and Barrie in particular.
Through the playing of the Empire Company Frohman introduced Oscar Wilde to America, and with the stock-company opportunities he developed such playwrights as Henry Arthur Jones, Haddon Chambers, Sydney Grundy, Louis N.
Our American playwrights say there are no rules; with them it is all inspiration.
Who will deny that it may be merely the defect of the playwrights of our time?
The most obvious resemblance between the Greek tragedy and the Scandinavian social drama is in their technic, in that the two austere playwrights have set before us the consequences of an action, rather than the action itself.
They blame modern playwrights for not putting it in.
Nor is it without significance that the professional playwrights seem to feel little or no temptation to turn story-tellers.
Consider the firstlings of Shakspere's art and of Molière's; and observe how they reveal these prentice playwrights at work, each seeking to display his cleverness and each satisfied when he had done this.
On the whole, we may say that we do not learn very much about our country from the poet which we could not find in the other playwrights of the day.
It will be said that this enchanted atmosphere belongs to all the greater playwrights of the age alike.
It was the custom in those days, as in the time of Plautus at Rome,(5) for playwrights to revise old plays; and still more was it usual for them to collaborate.
The playwrights did what the contemporary painters should have done, they fell back, in a measure, upon realism when high imagination was no longer possible.
Some other playwrights would deserve extended notice in a history of the drama, but are only entitled to the barest mention in a general literary survey.
Since the days of Lord Oxford, most of the ridiculous and expensive fashions in dress had come from Italy, as well as the newest modes of sin; and the playwrights themselves make no secret of the fact.
Certainly theplaywrights put themselves between the horns of an ugly dilemma.
If the citizens drove the players out of London, the playwrights took good care to have their revenge.
That other playwrights and poets of his day manifest a like familiarity (as we have seen they do) precludes us, indeed, from regarding the mere occurrence of law-terms in his works as indications of early training proper to him alone.
Nothing was left for the playwrights but to go on cutting down the old clothes of Plautus and Terence to fit their own backs--as Cecchi puts it.
Our Elizabethan playwrightsdramatized the legends of Othello and Juliet, the loves of Bianca Capello and Vittoria Accoramboni, the tragedies of the Duchess of Amalfi and the Duke of Milan.
It is true that their scenes suggested brilliant episodes to French and English playwrights of celebrity.
But such was the respect of these Italian playwrights for their classic models, that the scenes of even the best Florentine comedies are crowded with spendthrifts, misers, courtesans, lovers and slaves, borrowed from the Latin authors.
The words italicized show that the English playwrights were conscious of having developed a nobler type of the drama than had been produced in Italy.
Bandello's best Novelle abound in the situations which delighted our playwrights of the Jacobean age--in the thrilling incidents and scenes of high-wrought passion we are wont to deem the special property of Fletcher.
Footnote 147: I have put into an Appendix some further notes upon the opinions recorded by the playwrights concerning the progress of the dramatic art.
Had that public been, as all the playwrights seem to have assumed, ready to side with them against Collier, there might have been some justification in resting content as he and Congreve did with the scoring of a few debater's points.
At one time, moreover, he accuses the playwrights of recommending the vices which they should satirize and at other times denies that even the most sincere satiric intention can justify the lively representation of wickedness.
But Bedford had not been the first to treat the issue as one to be decoded by theologians rather than playwrights or critics.
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