Thomas Dekker

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T.F. Unwin, Limited, 1887 - 473 páginas
 

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Página xxxii - France : who resigned his place to another gentleman his friend, and came disguised like a Dutch shoemaker to the house of Simon Eyre in Tower Street, who served the Mayor and his household with shoes : the merriments that passed in Eyre's house, his coming to be Mayor of London, Lacy's getting his love, and other accidents, with two merry Three-men's-songs. Take all in good worth that is well intended, for nothing is purposed but mirth ; mirth lengtheneth long life, which, with all other blessings,...
Página viii - Wherein is shewed the picture of London lying sick of the Plague. At the end of all (like a merry Epilogue to a dull Play) certain tales are cut out in sundry fashions of purpose to shorten the lives of long winter's nights, that lie watching in the dark for us.
Página 1 - How, by this? Am I sure, by this? Art thou in thy wits? I tell thee, I must have a pair of shoes, dost thou mark me? A pair of shoes, two shoes, made by this very shoe, this same shoe, against to-morrow morning by four a clock.
Página xliii - Made up and pinked with letters for thy name. Wear them, my dear Jane, for thy husband's sake ; And every morning, when thou pull'st them on, Remember me, and pray for my return. Make much of them ; for I have made them so, That I can know them from a thousand mo. Drum sounds. Enter the LORD MAYOR, the EARL of LINCOLN, LACY, ASKEW, DODGER, and Soldiers. They pass over the stage ; RALPH_/<7//.r in amongst t/tem ; FlRK and the rest cry " Farewell,
Página xxxvii - That presently your cousin ship for France With all his powers ; he would not for a million, But they should land at Dieppe within four days.
Página xlvi - Bedlam this morning? I was in a dream, and mused what madman was got into the street so early; have you drunk this morning that your throat is so clear? EYRE. Ah, well said, Firk; well said, Firk. To work, my fine knave, to work! Wash thy face, and thou'lt be more blest. FIBX. Let them wash my face that will eat it. Good master, send for a souse-wife, if you'll have my face cleaner.
Página xl - Hodge. Why, then you were as good be a corporal as a colonel, if you cannot discharge one good fellow; and I tell you true, I think you do more than you can answer, to press a man within a year and a day of his marriage.
Página 1 - Ralph. They shall be done by this shoe ; well, well, Master Hammon at the Golden Shoe — I would say, the Golden Ball ; very well, very well. But I pray you sir,, where must Master Hammon be married?

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Dekker was a popular, prolific writer who had a hand in at least 40 plays, which he wrote for Philip Henslowe, the theatrical entrepreneur. In the plays that seem to be completely by Dekker, he shows himself as a realist of London life, but even his most realistic plays have a strong undertone of romantic themes and aspirations. The Shoemaker's Holiday (1600), for example, glorifies the gentle craft of the shoemaker, and the character Simon Eyre speaks in an extravagant, hyperbolic style that is far from realistic. Dekker also wrote such prose pamphlets as the Bellman of London (1608) and The Gull's Hornbook (1609), the latter an entertaining account of the behavior of a country yokel and dupe in London. He died in debt.

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