Frasi di Thomas Dekker

Thomas Dekker è stato uno scrittore e drammaturgo inglese prolifico e versatile dell'Età elisabettiana, che ha svolto attività di scrittore di testi per il teatro e di libelli in prosa. La sua carriera si è svolta nell'arco di molti decenni durante i quali è stato in contatto con molti dei più famosi drammaturghi dell'epoca. Wikipedia  

✵ 1572 – 25. Agosto 1632
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Thomas Dekker: Frasi in inglese

“Honest labour bears a lovely face.”

Patient Grissell (1599), Act i. Sc. 1.

“I was ne’er so thrummed since I was a gentleman.”

Thomas Dekker The Honest Whore

The Honest Whore (1604), Part i, Act iv. Sc. 2. Compare: "Zounds! I was never so bethump’d with words, Since I first call’d my brother’s father dad", William Shakespeare, King John, Act ii. Sc. 2.

“To add to golden numbers golden numbers.”

Patient Grissell (1599), Act i. Sc. 1.

“BALTHAZAR: Subjects may stumble, when kings walk astray.
Thine acts shall be a new Apocrypha.”

Thomas Dekker The Noble Spanish Soldier

The Noble Spanish Soldier (1622)

“BALTHAZAR: Sin is a raven croaking her own fall.”

Thomas Dekker The Noble Spanish Soldier

The Noble Spanish Soldier (1622)

“ONAELIA: One step to human bliss is sweet revenge.”

Thomas Dekker The Noble Spanish Soldier

The Noble Spanish Soldier (1622)

“The best of men
That e’er wore earth about him was a sufferer;
A soft, meek, patient, humble, tranquil spirit,
The first true gentleman that ever breathed.”

Thomas Dekker The Honest Whore

The Honest Whore (1604), Part i, Act i. Sc. 12. Compare: "Of the offspring of the gentilman Jafeth come Habraham, Moyses, Aron, and the profettys; also the Kyng of the right lyne of Mary, of whom that gentilman Jhesus was borne", Juliana Berners, Heraldic Blazonry.

“We are ne’er like angels till our passion dies.”

Thomas Dekker The Honest Whore

The Honest Whore (1604), Part ii, Act i. Sc. 2.

“This principle is old, but true as fate,—
Kings may love treason, but the traitor hate.”

Thomas Dekker The Honest Whore

The Honest Whore (1604), Part i, Act iv. Sc. 4.
Compare: "Cæsar said he loved the treason, but hated the traitor", Plutarch, Life of Romulus.
Compare: "treason is loved of many, but the Traitor hated of all", Robert Greene, Pandosto (1588).

“Turn over a new leaf.”

Thomas Dekker The Honest Whore

The Honest Whore (1604), Part ii, Act ii. Sc. 1. Compare: "Turn over a new leaf", Thomas Middleton, Anything for a Quiet Life (1621), Act iii. Sc. 3.

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