Dramatic EssaysJ. M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1931 - 299 sivua |
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... stage as will force us on that rock because we see they are seldom listened to by the audience and that is many times the ruin of the play ; for , being once let pass without attention , the audience can never recover themselves to ...
... stage as will force us on that rock because we see they are seldom listened to by the audience and that is many times the ruin of the play ; for , being once let pass without attention , the audience can never recover themselves to ...
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... stage to present two rooms or houses truly , as two countries or kingdoms ; and as impossible that five hours or ... stage cannot properly present two rooms or houses , much less two countries or king- doms , then there can be no unity ...
... stage to present two rooms or houses truly , as two countries or kingdoms ; and as impossible that five hours or ... stage cannot properly present two rooms or houses , much less two countries or king- doms , then there can be no unity ...
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... stage , or he is no more Achilles ; for his creator , Homer , has so described him . Yet even thus he appears a perfect hero , though an imperfect character of virtue . Horace paints him after Homer , and delivers him to be copied on ...
... stage , or he is no more Achilles ; for his creator , Homer , has so described him . Yet even thus he appears a perfect hero , though an imperfect character of virtue . Horace paints him after Homer , and delivers him to be copied on ...
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EPISTLE DEDICATORY TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE CHARLES LORD | 1 |
A DEFENCE OF AN ESSAY OF DRAMATIC POESY | 60 |
ON COMEDY FARCE AND TRAGEDY | 77 |
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acknowledge action admiration Æneas Æneid Æneis amongst ancients argument Aristotle audience Augustus beauties Ben Jonson better betwixt blank verse Boccace Cæsar Catiline character Chaucer comedy commend compass confess Crites critics defend Dido discourse Dramatic Poesy Dryden Duke of Lerma endeavoured English epic Essay Eugenius Euripides excellent expression fancy father faults favour Fletcher French genius Georgics give Grecian Greek hero Homer honour Horace humour imagination imitation invention Italian JOHN DRYDEN Jonson judge judgment Julius Cæsar kind language Latin least Lisideius lived Lord Lordship Lucretius manners modern nature never noble numbers observed opinion Ovid passions perfection persons Pindaric pleased plot poem poet preface prose reader reason rhyme Roman satire scene Segrais Sejanus sense serious plays Shakspeare Silent Woman speak stage suppose Theocritus things thought Tis true tragedy translation Turnus Virgil virtue words writ write