Category: Plays/Films/Dramas
Neither "The Winter's Tale", nor "Henry VIII" by Shakspeare, were at that time performed at either of the theatres; and the town had no immediate comparison to draw between the conjugal incidents in "The Count of Narbonne," and those which occur in these two very superior dramas.
Neither "The Winter's Tale", nor "Henry VIII" by Shakspeare, were at that time performed at either of the theatres; and the town had no immediate comparison to draw between the...
2. SCENE I._Count._ Your fraud, your negligence--away, reply not. Find her within this hour; else, by my life, The gates of Narbonne shall be clos'd against thee; Then make the world thy c...
3. SCENE I._Fab._ Pray be content; I dare not do it. Have this castle's walls Hous'd thee nine years, and, art thou yet to learn The temper of the count? Serv'd and obey'd, There lives not...
4. SCENE I._Adel._ Oh, 'would I had! for then I should not feel; But I have sense enough to know I am wretched, To see the full extent of misery, Yet not enough to teach me how to bear it.
5. SCENE II._Aust._ I do believe thee very barbarous; Nay, fear thy reason touch'd; for such wild thoughts, Such bloody purposes, could ne'er proceed From any sober judgment;--yet thy heart...
6. SCENE I._Adel._ Woe treads on woe.--Thy life, my Theodore, Thy threaten'd life, snatch'd from the impending stroke, Just gave a moment's respite to my heart; And now a mother's grief, w...
7. SCENE I._Count._ Hence to a dungeon with those mutinous slaves; There let them prate of prophecies and visions; And when coarse fare and stripes bring back their senses, Perhaps I may r...
8. SCENE II._Count._ Fame, that, like water, widens from its source, Thus often swells, and spreads a shallow falsehood. At first, a twilight tale of village terror, The hair of boors and b...
9. SCENE III._The inside of a Convent, with Aisles and Gothic Arches; Part of an Altar appearing on one side; the Statue of ALPHONSO, in Armour, in the centre. Other Statues and Monuments al...