Frases de John Fletcher (dramaturgo)
John Fletcher (dramaturgo)
Data de nascimento: 1579
Data de falecimento: 1625
John Fletcher foi um dramaturgo jacobino. Há rumores de que foi o sucessor de William Shakespeare no cargo de dramaturgo no King's Men.Foi também professor de John Dalton na Quaker’s School de Springfield.
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Citações John Fletcher (dramaturgo)
„Beba hoje, e afogue toda a tristeza; talvez não haja um amanhã.“
"Drink today, and drown all sorrow; you shall perhaps not do't tomorrow."
Fonte: Rollo, Duke of Normandy (1639), Act II, sc. ii
„That soul that can
Be honest is the only perfect man.“
— John Fletcher, The Honest Man's Fortune
Epilogue. Compare: "An honest man's the noblest work of God", Alexander Pope, Essay on Man, epistle iv. line 248.
The Honest Man's Fortune, (1613; published 1647)
— John Fletcher, Valentinian
Valentinian (1610–14; published 1647), Act IV, scene 4.
„Charity and treating begin at home.“
— John Fletcher, Wit Without Money
Scene 2.
Wit Without Money (c. 1614; published 1639)
„From the crown of our head to the sole of our foot.“
— John Fletcher, The Honest Man's Fortune
Act II, scene 2. Compare Thomas Middleton, A Mad World, My Masters, Act I, scene 3. Pliny, Natural History, Book VII, Chapter XVII. William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act III, scene 2.
The Honest Man's Fortune, (1613; published 1647)
„Great things thro' greatest hazards are achiev'd,
And then they shine.“
— John Fletcher, The Loyal Subject
Act I, scene 5.
The Loyal Subject (c. 1616–19; published 1647, 1679)
„Though I say't that should not say't.“
Wit at Several Weapons (with Thomas Middleton and William Rowley; c. 1610–20; published 1647), Act II, scene 2.
„Fountain heads and pathless groves,
Places which pale passion loves.“
The Nice Valour (c. 1615–25; publsihed 1647), Act iii, scene 3.
„There is no jesting with edge tools.“
— John Fletcher, The Little French Lawyer
Act IV, scene vii.
The Little French Lawyer (c. 1619–23; published 1647)
The Lover's Progress (licensed 6 December 1623; revised 1634; published 1647), Act iii. Sc. 4. Compare: "Deeds, not words", Samuel Butler, Hudibras, part i, canto i, line 867.
„This is a gimcrack
That can get nothing but new fashions on you.“
— John Fletcher, The Elder Brother
Act III, scene 3.
The Elder Brother (c. 1625; published 1637)
„Twas when young Eustace wore his heart in's breeches.“
— John Fletcher, The Elder Brother
Act V.
The Elder Brother (c. 1625; published 1637)
— John Fletcher, The Honest Man's Fortune
Epilogue. Compare: "Every man hath a good and a bad angel attending on him in particular all his life long", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, part i. sect. 2, memb. 1, subsect. 2.
The Honest Man's Fortune, (1613; published 1647)
The Nice Valor (1647), Melancholy. Compare: "Naught so sweet as melancholy", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy.
— John Fletcher, The Woman's Prize
The Woman's Prize, or The Tamer Tamed (c. 1611; published 1647), Act IV, scene 5, line 199.
The Two Noble Kinsmen (with William Shakespeare; c. 1613; published 1634), Act V, scene 1.
„Tis a word that's quickly spoken,
Which being restrained, a heart is broken.“
— John Fletcher, The Spanish Curate
The Spanish Curate (licensed 24 October 1622; 1647), Act II, scene 5, Song.
The Queen of Corinth (1647), Act III, sc. ii. Compare: "Weep no more, Lady! weep no more, Thy sorrow is in vain; For violets plucked, the sweetest showers Will ne'er make grow again", Thomas Percy, Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, "The Friar of Orders Gray".