more sportive

And is there a consciousness more sportive and splendid than Tom Stoppard’s?

And is there a consciousness more sportive and splendid than Tom Stoppard’s?

There are glimpses of a version of the series that’s more sportive, less self-serious.

My friend, quoth I, forgive these words of mine, That haply seem more sportive than becomes A soul that feels for Nature's sanctity Thus blindly outraged; but when evil work Admits no remedy, we then are glad Even from ourselves to hide, in mirth constrain'd, An unavailing sorrow.

It signifies on the one side the growth of a lighter and more sportive spirit than had yet prevailed, on another the rise in importance of Social importance of fabliaux. other and lower orders of men than the priest and the noble, on yet another the consciousness on the part of these lower orders of the defects of the two privileged classes, and of the shortcomings of the system of polity under which these privileged classes enjoyed their privileges.