Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: June 26, 2025
But the greatest of modern Dutch authors, and the one who may be termed the forerunner of the renaissance of 1880, was E. Douwes Dekker, who died thirteen years ago. Dekker had an eventful career. He went to the Dutch Indies at the age of twenty-one, and there spent some seventeen years in official life, gradually rising to the position of Assistant Resident of Lebac.
'Tis no manner av use bukkin' to the Sahib, bekaze he doesn't samjao your talk. Av he bolos anything, just you choop and chel. Dekker? Go arsty for the first arder-mile from cantonmints. Thin chel, Shaitan ke marfik, an' the chooper you choops an' the jildier you chels the better kooshy will that Sahib be; an' here's a rupee for ye?
Four plays are known to be his, The White Devil, or the Life and Death of Vittoria Corombona , Appius and Virginia , The Devil's Law Case , and The Duchess of Malfi , and he collaborated with Drayton, Middleton, Heywood, Dekker, etc., in the production of others.
The best proof of its vitality is the crowd of writers which suddenly broke into this field; Kyd, Marlow, Greene, Jonson, Chapman, Dekker, Webster, Heywood, Middleton, Peele, Ford, Massinger, Beaumont, and Fletcher. The secure possession, by the stage, of the public mind, is of the first importance to the poet who works for it. He loses no time in idle experiments.
Stedefeld, but we hold him, as well as Hamlet, to be an adherent of the so-called 'practical Christianity' at least, of what both Montaigne and Hamlet reckon to be such. This 'practical Christianity, however, is a notion somewhat difficult to define. We now proceed to an inquiry into the 'controversy between Jonson and Dekker, which has been repeatedly mentioned before.
The remarkable controversy is known, in the literature of that age, under the designation of the dispute between Ben Jonson and Dekker. A thorough examination of the dramas referring to it shows that Shakspere was even more implicated in this theatrical warfare than Dekker himself.
In literary anecdote? Of contemporary literary anecdote about Shakespeare, as about Beaumont, Dekker, Chapman, Heywood, and Fletcher, there is none, or next to none. There is the tradition that Southampton gave the poet 1000 pounds towards a purchase to which he had a mind. Perhaps in Southampton's book of his expenditure, and that does not exist.
"Where have you been this while?" he bawled, and although a minatory note was normal to the Colonel's voice, yet Blood felt his heart tightening apprehensively. "I've been at my work in the town," he answered. "Mrs. Patch has a fever and Mr. Dekker has sprained his ankle." "I sent for you to Dekker's, and you were not there. You are given to idling, my fine fellow.
His four plays are "Tamburlaine," "Faustus," "The Jew of Malta," and "Edward II." Shakespeare, his life, work, and influence. Shakespeare's Successors, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher, Webster, Middleton, Heywood, Dekker; and the rapid decline of the drama. Ben Jonson is the greatest of this group.
Of the many plays which he wrote or had a hand in, 15 believed to be entirely his are extant, other 8 were burned by a servant in the 18th century. He, however, collaborated so much with others Fletcher, Dekker, etc., that much fine work probably his can only be identified by internal evidence. He is believed to have joined with Fletcher and Shakespeare in Henry VIII. and The Two Noble Kinsmen.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking