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Phantastes Chapter 24: The Honest Whore, Thomas Dekker, Thomas Middleton
Phantastes Chapter 24: The Honest Whore, Thomas Dekker, Thomas Middleton
German Romantic and Other Influences
Thomas Dekker (1572-1632) was a dramatist and writer of popular pamphlets describing London life. This line comes from the play The Honest Whore, Part II (1605 or 1606). The Honest Whore, Part I, a collaboration between Dekker and Thomas Middleton, was performed in 1604.
Phantastes Chapter 15: Campaspe, John Lyly
Phantastes Chapter 15: Campaspe, John Lyly
German Romantic and Other Influences
Campaspe, an Elizabethan play by John Lyly (1584). The lines quoted are from Act 3, Scene 4, and they indicate the notion of a Platonic beauty, an ideal beauty that the artist can never capture perfectly