 | Tucker Brooke, Matthias A. Shaaber - 1989 - 490 sider
...Alexandria, and the next at Rome, supposes, that when the play opens, the spectator really imagines himself at Alexandria, and believes that his walk to the theatre...voyage to Egypt, and that he lives in the days of Anthony and Cleopatra. Surely he that imagines this may imagine more." And the Doctor goes on to give... | |
 | Gay Wilson Allen, Harry Hayden Clark - 1962 - 676 sider
...opens the spectator really imagines himself at Alexandria and believes that his walk to the theater has been a voyage to Egypt and that he lives in the...imagines this may imagine more. He that can take the stage at one time for the palace of the Ptolemies may take it in half an hour for the promontory of... | |
 | Michael Steppat - 1980 - 646 sider
...Rome." This would be true only if at the opening of the play "the spectator really imagines himself at Alexandria, and believes that his walk to the theatre...Egypt, and that he lives in the days of Antony and \11~\ Cleopatra." In truth, however, since the spectator knows that the stage is only a stage, he will... | |
 | Manfred Pfister - 1988 - 364 sider
...Alexandria and the next at Rome, supposes that when the play opens the spectator really imagines himself at Alexandria and believes that his walk to the theatre...voyage to Egypt, and that he lives in the days of Cleopatra . . . The truth is that the spectators are always in their senses and know, from the first... | |
 | Michael J. Sidnell - 1991 - 298 sider
...Alexandria, and the next at Rome, supposes that when the play opens the spectator really imagines himself at Alexandria, and believes that his walk to the theatre...imagines this may imagine more. He that can take the stage at one time for the palace of the Ptolemies, may take it in half an hour for the promontory of... | |
 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 sider
...psychological crisis in the audience. If, when the play opens, 'the spectator really imagines himself at Alexandria, and believes that his walk to the theatre...that he lives in the days of Antony and Cleopatra' — anyone familiar with Johnson's style or thought will detect the sarcasm there, will feel the bubble... | |
 | Pauline Kiernan - 1998 - 236 sider
...Alexandria, and the next at Rome, supposes, that when the play opens, the spectator really imagines himself at Alexandria, and believes that his walk to the theatre...Egypt, and that he lives in the days of Antony and Cleopatra.20 What is being emphasised in 'The Pageant of the Nine Worthies' is the irretrievability... | |
 | Sue Jennings - 1997 - 372 sider
...Alexandria and the next at Rome, supposes that when the play opens the spectator really imagines himself at Alexandria and believes that his walk to the theatre...imagines this may imagine more. He that can take the stage at one time for the palace of the Ptolemies may take it in half an hour for the promontory of... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2001 - 448 sider
...Alexandria, and the next at Home, supposes that when the play opens the spectator really imagines himself at Alexandria, and believes that his walk to the theatre...imagines this, may imagine more. He that can take the stage at one time for the palace of the Ptolemies, may take it in half an hour for the promontory of... | |
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The objection arising from the impossibility of passing the first hour at Alexandria and the next at Rome supposes that, when the play opens, the spectator really imagines himself at Alexandria, and believes that his walk to the theatre has been a voyage... 
