„Honest labour bears a lovely face.“
Patient Grissell (1599), Act i. Sc. 1.
Frasi di Thomas Dekker
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Thomas Dekker
Data di nascita: 1572
Data di morte: 25. Agosto 1632
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
Foto: Woodcut from title page of published play, Dekker his Dreame / Public domain
Frasi Thomas Dekker
„And though mine arm should conquer twenty worlds,
There ’s a lean fellow beats all conquerors.“
— Thomas Dekker, Old Fortunatus
Old Fortunatus (1599).
— Thomas Dekker, The Noble Spanish Soldier
The Noble Spanish Soldier (1622)
— Thomas Dekker, The Noble Spanish Soldier
The Noble Spanish Soldier (1622)
— Thomas Dekker, The Noble Spanish Soldier
The Noble Spanish Soldier (1622)
„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.
— Thomas Dekker, The Noble Spanish Soldier
The Noble Spanish Soldier (1622)
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„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)
— 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)
— 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.
— Thomas Dekker, The Noble Spanish Soldier
The Noble Spanish Soldier (1622)
„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).
— 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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