...it treats are such as might occur in ordinary experience. Novelists, as distinct from Romancers, " hold the mirror up to nature, and show the very age and body of the time hip form and pressure." The Ideal Romances which flourished after the Renaissance owed their origin...

...wellconducted theatre, free from the trammels of vice, as there is from the pulpit. From the one ' we hold the mirror up to nature, and show the very age and body of the time its form and pressure ;' whereas in the other there is no more than a mere verbal utterance to convince the guilty, of the...

...the methods of the actors who "created" the parts. All dramatic art is a mirror held up to nature "to show the very age and body of the time, its form and pressure," but modes of rendering this form and pressure, though they leave so strong an effect upon the world,...

...drama means what Shakespeare said it meant in Hamlet's advice to the players — either it exists to show " the very age and body of the time, its form, and pressure" — either it means this, or it means any haphazard medley of noise and nonsense, folly and inanity...

...image." Hence, it has its use, though it may not rise to the dignity of comedy and tragedy, which can show " the very age and body of the time, its form and presence. " becomes the means in the realm of dramatic art of discovering the un-ideal, and indirectly...

...the play will see themselves reflected as in a mirror, just as in the dramas of our day we attempt to show " the very age and body of the time, its form and pressure ". We have met the gallants strolling in the aisles of old St. Paul's, and dining at Dick Tarleton's...

...the play will see themselves reflected as in a mirror, just as in the dramas of our day we attempt to show " the very age and body of the time, its form and pressure." We have met the gallants strolling in the aisles of old St. Paul's, and dining at Dick Tarleton's Ordinary,...

...picture held up in substance, as it were, before the eyes of the reader ; as Hamlet says it should "hold the mirror up to nature, and show the very age and body of the time his form and pressure." I came to the age of immature observation shortly after the Reform Constitution...

...though qualified to do good service as a pioneer, is too one-sided, and not quite powerful enough to show the very age and body of the time its form and pressure. But we must wait for the finished work. Thus far at least it is a very interesting production, full...

...famous speech to the Players, Shakespeare makes Hamlet speak of the end of the player's art being, "to show the very age and body of the time its form and pressure." What Hamlet said of the player's art can apply to the whole art of the stage. If we analyze this speech,...