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...Voltaire as a dramatist be considered a forerunner of the Romantic School...
Once made poet laureate, Dryden's career as dramatist closes and he now turns to satire. In satire his genius lay, and in his productions of this kind we have fit members of the great body of English literature. His language was direct, emphatic, incisive, - there was an impetuous flow about his verses, every line struck a blow, every epithet had its significance, every simile its effect. Dryden's satire was both glorious and terrible...
...literary and artistic life of the Bavarian capital; and the best of his dramas have long since become household works of all the great German theatres. One of Ibson's personal friends in Germany, Fraulein Eugenie Wohlmuth, is at present among us, and will read selections from the great dramatist to a Boston audience. Fraulein Wohlmuth is a reader of established reputation in the great centres of culture in Europe. She is indorsed in this country by such men as Colonel Higginson, Mr. Nikisch and others, and there can be little doubt that her readings will be performances of high...
...Child introduced Mr. E. Charlton Black, late of the University of Edinburgh. The subject for discussion was: "Shakspere; the Man." Recent talk about Shakspere, -Mr. Black began, has lead me to go over again the slender story of his life. He was a poet, an artist and a dramatist; the author of some forty works. Mr. Ruskin in his second Lecture on Art at Oxford said: "The highest thing that Art can do is to set before us the figure of a man." It is very proper then that we should turn to Shakspere, the glory of English and universal...
...buried in St. Saviour's, and when it is fair to suppose that the dead player's brother William was among the mourners. Indeed, this church of St. Saviour's must be reckoned-if we are not too iconoclastic-among the three historic buildings, now standing, which the great dramatist may have seen. These are the Hall of the Middle Temple, where "Twelfth Night" was first acted, and where one of the benchers took me recently; Crosby Hall, mentioned by Shakspere as Crosby Place, a stately mansion of the fifteenth century, near Bishopsgate, where I remember once some...