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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.

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Frasi Thomas Dekker

„ONAELIA:You are like common beadles, apt to lash
Almost to death poor wretches not worth striking,
But fawn with slavish flattery on damned vices
So great men act them. You clap hands at those,
Where the true poet indeed doth scorn to gild
A gaudy tomb with glory of his verse,
Which coffins stinking carrion.“

— Thomas Dekker

„A wise man poor
Is like a sacred book that’s never read,—
To himself he lives, and to all else seems dead.
This age thinks better of a gilded fool
Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom’s school.“

— Thomas Dekker
Old Fortunatus (1599).

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

— Thomas Dekker
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).

„Honest labour bears a lovely face.“

— Thomas Dekker
Patient Grissell (1599), Act i. Sc. 1.

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

— Thomas Dekker

„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 (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 (1604), Part ii, Act i. Sc. 2.

„ONAELIA: What sort of poets are there?
POET: Two sorts lady: The great poets and the small poets.
ONAELIA: Great and small! Which do you call the great? The fat ones?“

— Thomas Dekker

„Turn over a new leaf.“

— Thomas Dekker
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.

„And though mine arm should conquer twenty worlds,
There ’s a lean fellow beats all conquerors.“

— Thomas Dekker
Old Fortunatus (1599).

„ALANZO: Wrongs, like great whirlwinds,
Shake highest battlements. Few for heaven would care,
Should they be ever happy.“

— Thomas Dekker

„QUEEN: But Hymen's torch, held downward, shall drop out,
And for it, the mad Furies swing their brands
About the bride-chamber.“

— Thomas Dekker

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

— Thomas Dekker
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.

„KING: I am full of thoughts,
A thousand wheels toss my incertain fears,
There is a storm in my hot boiling brains,
Which rises without wind. A horrid one.“

— Thomas Dekker

„Art thou poor, yet hast thou golden slumbers?
O sweet content!
Art thou rich, yet is thy mind perplex'd?
O punishment!“

— Thomas Dekker
Poem Sweet Content http://www.bartleby.com/101/204.html

„To add to golden numbers golden numbers.“

— Thomas Dekker
Patient Grissell (1599), Act i. Sc. 1.

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Frasi Thomas Dekker

„A wise man poor
Is like a sacred book that’s never read,—
To himself he lives, and to all else seems dead.
This age thinks better of a gilded fool
Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom’s school.“

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

„Honest labour bears a lovely face.“

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

„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.“

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

„ONAELIA: What sort of poets are there?
POET: Two sorts lady: The great poets and the small poets.
ONAELIA: Great and small! Which do you call the great? The fat ones?“

„Turn over a new leaf.“

„And though mine arm should conquer twenty worlds,
There ’s a lean fellow beats all conquerors.“

„ALANZO: Wrongs, like great whirlwinds,
Shake highest battlements. Few for heaven would care,
Should they be ever happy.“

„QUEEN: But Hymen's torch, held downward, shall drop out,
And for it, the mad Furies swing their brands
About the bride-chamber.“

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

„KING: I am full of thoughts,
A thousand wheels toss my incertain fears,
There is a storm in my hot boiling brains,
Which rises without wind. A horrid one.“

„Art thou poor, yet hast thou golden slumbers?
O sweet content!
Art thou rich, yet is thy mind perplex'd?
O punishment!“

„To add to golden numbers golden numbers.“

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