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    The Playwright As Poet
    The Playwright As Poet
    The Playwright As Poet
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    The Playwright As Poet

    By Aristophanes, William Shakespeare and W B Yeats

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    Two sides of the same coin most would say. And without doubt for the majority of authors in this wide-ranging collection that would be absolutely right.

    Shakespeare was equally at home with drama or poetry, but he was exceptional. We have not seen his like before or since on such a scale. His contemporaries Fletcher, Fairfax and the many more that followed sometimes also wove their verse into their dramas and comedies, others such as Marlowe and Behn wrote both within their plays and as separate works.

    Words are an exceptional creation. The building blocks of language built to convey, discuss and share our most complex thoughts and ideas and writers, whether they be of prose, poetry or plays, use their given or honed gifts in elaborate ways to explore themes, reflect on happenings; the inky blood that help shape our cultural bodies, our human spirit.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPortable Poetry
    Release dateDec 12, 2023
    ISBN9781835470671
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      The Playwright As Poet - Aristophanes

      The Playwright As Poet

      Two sides of the same coin most would say.  And without doubt for the majority of authors in this wide-ranging collection that would be absolutely right.

      Shakespeare was equally at home with drama or poetry, but he was exceptional.  We have not seen his like before or since on such a scale.  His contemporaries Fletcher, Fairfax and the many more that followed sometimes also wove their verse into their dramas and comedies, others such as Marlowe and Behn wrote both within their plays and as separate works.

      Words are an exceptional creation.  The building blocks of language built to convey, discuss and share our most complex thoughts and ideas and writers, whether they be of prose, poetry or plays, use their given or honed gifts in elaborate ways to explore themes, reflect on happenings; the inky blood that help shape our cultural bodies, our human spirit.

      Index of Contents

      Song of the Furies by Aeschylus

      Fragment by Aeschylus

      Long Life Not to Be Desired by Sophocles

      The Vine of Bacchus by Sophocles

      The Precarious Life of Man by Euripides

      O For the Wings of a Dove by Euripides

      Song of the Clouds (from The Clouds) by Aristophanes

      The Poet's Apology by Aristophanes

      ‘Neath This Tall Pine by Plato

      Love Asleep by Plato

      The Salad or Pesto from the Latin Moretum by Virgil

      Heauton Timorumenos (The Self-Tormentor). Prologue by Terence

      Sonnet by Miguel de Cervantes

      Ovillejos by Miguel de Cervantes

      Hot Sun, Cool Fire by George Peele

      The Sad Shepherd's Passion of Love by George Peele

      I Serve a Mistress by Anthony Munday

      In the Mirror of Mutability by Anthony Munday

      Yet Might She Love Me by Thomas Kyd

      A Description of Fever by George Chapman

      Courage by George Chapman

      Beauty, Time And Love by Samuel Daniel (Sonnets 1-7)

      To Night by Lope de Vega

      Tomorrow by Lope de Vega

      Sonnet 116 - Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds by William Shakespeare

      Sonnet 18 - Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day? by William Shakespeare

      Sonnet 14 - Not From the Stars Do I My Judgement Pluck by William Shakespeare

      Fair Summer Droops From Summer's Last Will And Testament by Thomas Nashe

      A Litany in Time of Plague by Thomas Nashe

      On Playwright by Ben Jonson

      On Poet-Ape by Ben Jonson

      The Passionate Shepherd To His Love by Christopher Marlowe

      Who Ever Loved That Loved Not At First Sight by Christopher Marlowe

      The Merry Month of May by Thomas Dekker

      Heaven by Edward Fairfax

      Care Charming Sleep by John Fletcher

      A Dirge by John Webster

      The Madman's Song by John Webster

      How Near I Am to Happiness by Thomas Middleton

      Anacreontic by Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft

      Friendship by Pieter Cornelisazoon Hooft

      Death Invoked by Philip Massinger

      The Condition of Kings Human by Philip Massinger

      On the Tombs at Westminster Abbey by Francis Beaumont

      The Glance by Francis Beaumont

      A Bridal Song by John Ford

      Oh No More, No More by John Ford

      Cease Warring Thoughts by James Shirley

      The Glories of Our Blood and State by James Shirley

      The Dream Called Life by Pedro Calderon de la Barca

      Praise and Prayer by William Davenant

      To a Mistress Dying by William Davenant

      An Apology For Her Poetry by Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle

      The Hunting of the Hare by Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle

      Farewell Ungrateful Traitor by John Dryden

      The Medal - A Satire Against Sedition by John Dryden

      Phaedra (An Extract) by Raccine

      The Disappointment by Aphra Behn

      Love Armed by Aphra Behn

      From Love To Friendship by Voltaire

      To a Lady Very Well Known to the Whole Town by Voltaire

      The Enchantment by Thomas Otway

      Whilst Shepherds Watch'd by Nahum Tate

      The Tea-Table by Nahum Tate

      A Hue and Cry After Fair Amoret by William Congreve

      False Though She Be by William Congreve

      The Blind Boy by Colley Cibber

      Hope by Joseph Addison

      The Spacious Firmament by Joseph Addison

      The Fable of the Shepherd and Wolf by John Gay

      The Rat-Catcher and Cats by John Gay

      A Letter to Sir Robert Walpole by Henry Fielding

      A Pipe of Tobacco by Henry Fielding

      The Youth and the Philosopher by William Whitehead

      The Je Ne Sais Quoi by William Whitehead

      An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog by Oliver Goldsmith

      The Village by Oliver Goldsmith

      Alexander by Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

      Calm at Sea by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

      Next Year's Spring by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

      A Portrait by Richard Brinsley Sheridan

      A Funeral Fantasie by Friedrich Schiller

      The Two Guides of Life - The Sublime and the Beautiful by Fredrich Schiller

      Proud Maisie by Walter Scott

      My Native Land by Walter Scott

      She Walks In Beauty by Lord Byron

      The Isles of Greece by Lord Byron

      The Dream by Alexander Pushkin

      The Poet by Aleksandr Pushkin

      Boaz Asleep by Victor Hugo

      The Beacon in the Storm by Victor Hugo

      The Last Man by Thomas Lovell Beddoes

      The Clock Striking Midnight by Thomas Lovell Beddoes

      My Last Duchess by Robert Browning

      Confessions by Robert Browning

      In the Picture Gallery by Henrik Ibsen

      Thanks by Henrik Ibsen

      The Phantom Train by Tom Hood

      The Loji Expedition by Tom Hood

      Before Sunrise on Helvellyn by Hall Caine

      After Sunset by Hall Caine

      Endymion by Oscar Wilde

      Serenade by Oscar WIlde

      Faith and Words by Israel Zangwill

      The Cynic by Israel Zangwill

      He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven by W B Yeats

      The Poet Pleads with the Elemental Powers by W B Yeats

      The Curse by J M Synge

      Queens by John Millington Synge

      Preludes by T S Eliot

      Whispers of Immortality by T S Eliot

      The Guitar - La Guitarra by Frederico Garcia Lorca

      Train Ride by Federico Garcia Lorca

      THE PLAYWRIGHT AS POET

      Song of the Furies by Aeschylus

      Up and lead the dance of Fate!

      Lift the song that mortals hate!

      Tell what rights are ours on earth,

      Over all of human birth.

      Swift of foot to avenge are we!

      He whose hands are clean and pure,

      Naught our wrath to dread hath he;

      Calm his cloudless days endure.

      But the man that seeks to hide

      Like him, his gore-bedewèd hands,

      Witnesses to them that died,

      The blood avengers at his side,

      The Furies' troop forever stands.

      O'er our victim come begin!

      Come, the incantation sing,

      Frantic all and maddening,

      To the heart a brand of fire,

      The Furies' hymn,

      That which claims the senses dim,

      Tuneless to the gentle lyre,

      Withering the soul within.

      The pride of all of human birth,

      All glorious in the eye of day,

      Dishonored slowly melts away,

      Trod down and trampled to the earth,

      Whene'er our dark-stoled troop advances,

      Whene'er our feet lead on the dismal dances.

      For light our footsteps are,

      And perfect is our might,

      Awful remembrances of guilt and crime,

      Implacable to mortal prayer,

      Far from the gods, unhonored, and heaven's light,

      We hold our voiceless dwellings dread,

      All unapproached by living or by dead.

      What mortal feels not awe,

      Nor trembles at our name,

      Hearing our fate-appointed power sublime,

      Fixed by the eternal law.

      For old our office, and our fame,

      Might never yet of its due honors fail,

      Though 'neath the earth our realm in unsunned regions pale.

      Fragment by Aeschylus

          The man who rightly acts without coercion

          Will not be grieved, can never wholly sink in wretchedness;

          While the lawless criminal is forcibly dragged under

          In the current of time when from the shattered mast

          The elements rip down his sails.

          He shouts, there is no ear to hear him

          Struggling, hopeless, at the maelstrom's center.

          Gods laugh at the transgressor now,

          Watching him, his pride now wrecked,

          Caught in desperation's shackles.

          He flees the rocks in vain;

          His fortunes smash on retribution's reef

          And, unmourned, he is engulfed.

      Long Life Not to Be Desired by Sophocles

      Who, loving life, hath sought

      To outrun the appointed span,

      Shall be arraigned before my thought

      For an infatuate man.

      Since the added years entail

      Much that is bitter;—joy

      Flies out of ken, desire doth fail,

      The wished-for moments cloy.

      But when the troublous life,

      Be

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