 | Christopher Marlowe - English drama - 1998 - 550 pages
...the printer himself, who explains in an epistle to the readers that he has 'omitted and left out some fond and frivolous gestures, digressing, and, in my poor opinion, far unmeet for the matter'. The omission of necessary entrance and exit directions in the octavo text (2.2.38, 2.3.48, 2.3.65,... | |
 | Ian McAdam - Drama - 1999 - 300 pages
...of the play, since the printer Richard Jones admitted: "I have (purposely) omitted and left out some fond and frivolous gestures, digressing (and in my...some vain, conceited fondlings greatly gaped at, what times they were showed upon the stage in their graced deformities." Quoted in Leech, Poet for the Stage,... | |
 | Christopher Marlowe - Drama - 1999 - 356 pages
...showed in London upon stages. I have purposely omitted and left out some fond and frivolous jestures, digressing and, in my poor opinion, far unmeet for the matter, which I thought might 10 seem more tedious unto the wise than any way else to be regarded—though, haply, they have been... | |
 | Robert Weimann - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 324 pages
...curtailed in a drastic manner: I have purposely omitted and left out some fond and frivolous jestures, digressing and, in my poor opinion, far unmeet for...some vain, conceited fondlings greatly gaped at, what times they were showed upon the stage in their graced deformities. Nevertheless, now to be mixtured... | |
 | Andrew Gurr - Drama - 2004 - 362 pages
...publisher told the play's readers that I have purposely omitted and left out some fond and ftivolous gestures, digressing and, in my poor opinion, far...some vain, conceited fondlings greatly gaped at, what times they were showed upon the stage in their graced deformities.47 The author of The Wars of Cyrus,... | |
 | Patrick Cheney - Drama - 2004 - 350 pages
...epistle to the reader which prefaces the printed edition: 'I have (purposely) omitted and left out some fond and frivolous gestures, digressing (and in my poor opinion) far unmeet for the matter.' Jones claims to have turned aesthetic judgement into editorial action - that is, if his statement is... | |
 | Jonathan Burton - Drama - 2005 - 332 pages
...greater insight into Zabina's allusions. Yet Jones claims that his expurgations were limited to "some fond and frivolous gestures, digressing (and, in my poor opinion) far unmeet for the matter" (To the Gentlemen Readers, 9-10). Whereas Jones goes on to characterize his purposeful omissions as... | |
 | Michael Hattaway - Electronic books - 2005 - 272 pages
...printer's epistle to the 1590 Quarto of / Tamburlaine notes that he has 'omitted and left out some fond and frivolous gestures, digressing (and in my poor opinion) far unmeet for the matter' - these comic scenes presumably were either written by Marlowe himself or developed with his cognizance.... | |
 | Janette Dillon - Drama - 2006 - 39 pages
...omitted and left out some fond [foolish] and frivolous gestures [movements, attitudes, expressions], digressing (and in my poor opinion) far unmeet for...(haply) they have been of some vain conceited fondlings [fools] greatly gaped at, what times they were showed upon the stage in their graced deformities. Nevertheless... | |
 | Christa Jansohn - English drama - 2006 - 324 pages
...which fully endorses Marlowe's program in the prologue: "I have purposely omitted and left out some fond and frivolous gestures, digressing (and in my...the matter, which I thought might seem more tedious to the wise than any way else to be regarded, though haply they have been of some vain conceited fondlings... | |
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I have purposely omitted and left out some fond and frivolous gestures, digressing, and, in my poor opinion, far unmeet for the matter, which I thought might seem more tedious unto the wise than any way else to be regarded, though haply they have been... 
