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Great Plays: English (Classic Reprint) by Marlowe Marlowe (Paperback / softback, 2017)

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Excerpt from Great Plays: English The sudden freedom out of which the glory of the English drama grew, led to its most serious blemish, licentiousness. The actors were t disreputable, but it is fair to assume that few of them were so respectable and prosperous as Shakespeare; many of the drama tists were young scholars, who made a precarious living, and, if their gibes at one ather are to be taken seriously, led dissolute lives and frequently fell into want; the audiences, however various in rank and culture, were alike in a certain coarseness of moral fibre and delight in broad jests. As a consequence, few plays of the age of Elizabeth and James are free from vile words, immoral suggestions, or indecent incidents. In the comedies the coarseness of some of the fun is to be pardoned because it is fun; and the filth seems more out of place than in Aristophanes; but in the tragedies, unlike the pure and majestic dramas of Eschylus and Sophocles, senselessly foul scenes and passages are sometimes brought in to raise a laugh among the groundlings. Shakespeare sins in this way somewhat, and there is a sly, impudent audacity in many of his allusions that carries off a naughty jest, so that the incent reader is unaware of the double meaning; but his immorality always comes in as humour and for the sake of the humour. He is too fond of fun to hesitate at indelicacy or even indecency, but he shows love of indecency for its own sake. It was otherwise with some of his contemporaries, who, when other resources failed, were ready to be coarse as a last resort. The tendency to impurity remained after the great qualities of the early drama failed, and at times it became so much of an evil as to lay the stage open to the charge of becoming a source of public cor ruption. The Puritans, whom the actors had often ridiculed, lost time, in the era of their ascendency, in pressing home this charge. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art techlogy to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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1330868706
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9781330868706
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Paperback / Softback, Trade Paperback (US) ,Unsewn / Adhesive Bound
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English
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Drama Texts, Plays & Screenplays
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Marlowe Marlowe

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23/04/2017
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, Black & White Illustrations
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United States

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