The Stage and the Drama in Their Relation to Society: A Lecture Delivered Before the Sunday Lecture Society ... April 11th 1880Sunday Lecture Society, 1880 - 20 Seiten |
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Seite 14 - His was the spell o'er hearts Which only acting lends, — The youngest of the sister Arts, Where all their beauty blends : For ill can Poetry express Full many a tone of thought sublime, And Painting, mute and motionless, Steals but a glance of time. But by the mighty actor brought, Illusion's perfect triumphs come, — Verse ceases to be airy thought, And Sculpture to be dumb.
Seite 12 - What we see upon a stage is body and bodily action ; what we are conscious of in reading is almost exclusively the mind, and its movements : and this I think may sufficiently account for the very different sort of delight with which the same play so often affects us in the reading and the seeing.
Seite 9 - In the name of art, as well as in the name of virtue, we protest against the principle that the world of pure comedy is one into which no moral enters.
Seite 8 - When we are among them, we are amongst a chaotic people. We are not to judge them by our usages. No reverend institutions are insulted by their proceedings, for they have none among them. No peace of families is violated, for no family ties exist among them. No purity of the marriage bed is stained, for none is supposed to have a being.
Seite 17 - So build we up the being that we are; Thus deeply drinking in the soul of things, We shall be wise perforce. Whate'er we see, Whate'er we feel, by agency direct Or indirect, shall tend to feed and nurse Our faculties, shall fix in calmer seats Of moral strength, and raise to loftier heights Of love divine, our intellectual soul.
Seite 17 - A change seems coming over the state of the stage, and there are signs of a revival of the once splendid art of the actor. To effect this revival there must be not only accomplished artists and an eager public ; there must be a more enlightened public. The critical pit, filled with players who were familiar with fine acting and had trained judgments, has disappeared.
Seite 17 - ... actor. To effect this revival there must be not only accomplished artists and an eager public; there must be a more enlightened public The critical pit, filled with players who were familiar with fine acting and had trained judgments, has disappeared. In its place there is a mass of amusement seekers, not without a nucleus of intelligent spectators, but of this nucleus only a small minority has very accurate ideas of what constitutes good art.
Seite 8 - Lisa of the dramatic arts) who enunciates the proposition that "the purpose of playing ... is to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature, to show virtue her own features, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure
Seite 20 - May, 1875, win be given. Members' £1 subscription entitles them to an annual ticket (transferable and admitting to the reserved seats), and to eight single reserved-seat tickets available for any lecture. Tickets for each series (one for each lecture) as below, — To the SHILLING Reserved Seats— 5s. 6d.
Seite 20 - DELIVERED AT ST GEORGE'S HALL, LANGHAM PLACE, On SUNDAY Afternoons, at FOUR o'clock precisely. (Annually— from November to May). TWENTY-FOUR Lectures (in three series), ending 2nd May, 1875, will be given. Members' £1 subscription entitles them to an annual ticket (transferable and admitting to the reserved seats), and to eight single reserved-seat tickets available for any lecture. Tickets for each series...