 | Brian Vickers - 1995 - 585 pages
...smartness and contests of sarcasm; their jests are commonly gross, and their pleasantry licentious;3 neither his gentlemen nor his ladies have much delicacy,...from his clowns by any appearance of refined manners. Whether he represented the real conversation of his time is not easy to determine; the reign of Elizabeth... | |
 | Greg Clingham - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 290 pages
...it. In tragedy, Shakespeare works against the grain of his natural disposition, and it is then that "his performance seems constantly to be worse, as his labour is more" (pp. 71-73). But again the point is made by reference to how an ordinary reader of the tragic scenes... | |
 | Anuradha Sharma - 2005 - 478 pages
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 | Anuradha Sharma - 2005 - 478 pages
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In his comic scenes he is seldom very successful when he engages his characters in reciprocations of smartness and contests of sarcasm; their jests are commonly gross and their pleasantry licentious; neither his gentlemen nor his ladies have much delicacy,... 
