 | Bruce R. Smith - 2000 - 194 sider
...Shakespeare (1765) praised the universality of Shakespeare's characters — 'In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species' — he was articulating the principle that informed Betterton's portrayal of Hamlet and Garrick's.27... | |
 | Howard B. White - 1970 - 174 sider
...are agitated, and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species.20 Whether a knowledge of nature, in Johnson's sense, designates a 18 Kermode, "Introduction"... | |
 | Greg Clingham - 2002 - 238 sider
...entering the poem, adopting its priorities, and feeling like a species ("In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species").42 If, as Johnson says of Cowley's Davideis, "we find wit and learning unprofitably squandered.... | |
 | Marjorie B. Garber - 2003 - 332 sider
...are agitated, and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species." It is worth emphasizing this resounding final sentence: "In the writings of other poets a character... | |
 | Joan Fitzpatrick - 2004 - 198 sider
...are agitated, and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species. (Johnson 1765, viii-ix) The notion that Shakespeare depicts the human condition was also common amongst... | |
 | Lothar Knatz, Tanehisa Otabe - 2005 - 294 sider
...the world will always supply and observation will always find. [...] In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species."21 Sowohl Shaftesbury als auch Johnson stehen in der Tradition der aristoteli19 Alexander... | |
 | Judith Woolf - 2005 - 188 sider
...faithful mirrour of manners and of life', and commented approvingly, 'In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species.'35 (No character studies of Lady Macbeth for him.) When, in 1673, the actor William Cademan... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 2008 - 380 sider
...are agitated, and the whole system of life is continued in motion. In the writings of other poets a character is too often an individual; in those of Shakespeare it is commonly a species. It is from this wide extension of design that so much instruction is derived. It is this which fills... | |
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... progeny of common humanity, such as the world will always supply and observation will always find. His persons act and speak by the influence of those general passions and principles by which all minds are agitated, and the whole system of life is... 
