 | Matthew Steggle - 2007 - 182 páginas
...into playes by head & shoulders" is an admiring quotation of Sidney, Defence, 244: "their plays . . . thrust in the clown by head and shoulders to play a part in majestical matters". Of course, this clown isn'ta "real" professional theatre clown, in the sense that... | |
 | Penny Gay - 2008
...also aesthetic criticism. Sir Philip Sidney's famous complaint in his Apology for Poetry is typical: all their plays be neither right tragedies, nor right...not because the matter so carrieth it, but thrust in clowns by head and shoulders, to play a part in majestical matters, with neither decency nor discretion,... | |
| |
But besides these gross absurdities, how all their plays be neither right tragedies nor right comedies, mingling kings and clowns, not because the matter so carrieth it, but thrust in the clown by head and shoulders to play a part in majestical matters,... 
