An Essay of Dramatic PoesyClarendon Press, 1889 - 141 páginas |
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... no other ornament ; while by rejecting rhyme he avoids the danger of weakening that interest which should be excited by the plot and the characters . When such blank verse as the following can be had , no xii PREFACE .
... no other ornament ; while by rejecting rhyme he avoids the danger of weakening that interest which should be excited by the plot and the characters . When such blank verse as the following can be had , no xii PREFACE .
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... characters of the persons , and proceeds very little into any part of the action . Secondly , the Epitasis , or working up of the plot ; where the play grows warmer , the design or action of it is drawing on , and you see something 30 ...
... characters of the persons , and proceeds very little into any part of the action . Secondly , the Epitasis , or working up of the plot ; where the play grows warmer , the design or action of it is drawing on , and you see something 30 ...
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... characters of the persons . An old father , who would willingly , before he dies , see his son well married ; his de- bauched son , kind in his nature to his mistress , but miserably in want of money ; a servant or slave , who 20 has so ...
... characters of the persons . An old father , who would willingly , before he dies , see his son well married ; his de- bauched son , kind in his nature to his mistress , but miserably in want of money ; a servant or slave , who 20 has so ...
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... characters are indeed the imitation of nature , but so narrow , as if they had imitated only an eye or an hand , and did not dare to venture on the lines of a face , or the proportion of a body . 5 $ déduct actuall ' But in how strait a ...
... characters are indeed the imitation of nature , but so narrow , as if they had imitated only an eye or an hand , and did not dare to venture on the lines of a face , or the proportion of a body . 5 $ déduct actuall ' But in how strait a ...
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... character of a fanfaron or Hector : for with us the knight takes occasion to walk out , or sleep , to avoid the vanity of 20 telling his own story , which the trusty ' squire is ever to perform for him . So in their love - scenes , of ...
... character of a fanfaron or Hector : for with us the knight takes occasion to walk out , or sleep , to avoid the vanity of 20 telling his own story , which the trusty ' squire is ever to perform for him . So in their love - scenes , of ...
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action admiration ancients appear argument Aristotle audience B.A. Extra fcap beauty Ben Johnson betwixt blank verse C. A. BUCHHEIM catachresis Catiline characters comedy compass concernment contrived Corneille Crites discourse dispute drama Dramatic Poesy Dramatick Dryden Duke of Lerma Edited by C. A. English errour ESSAY OF DRAMATIC Eugenius Euripides fancy farther favour Fletcher French poets German give Greek GUSTAVE MASSON honour Horace humour imagine imitation of nature Johnson judge judgment Julius Cæsar kind language leave Lisideius Lord Malone ment modern Molière Neander never observed opinion Ovid passions perfection persons Plautus plot poem poet prose quæ reason represented rest rhyme rule scene Scornful Lady Sejanus Seneca serious plays Shakspeare shew Silent Woman Sir Robert Howard speak stage suppose Terence theatre thing thoughts Tis true tragedy twenty-four unity of place unnatural words writ writing
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Página 110 - To make a child now swaddled; to proceed Man, and then shoot up, in one beard and weed, Past threescore years ; or, with three rusty swords, And help of some few foot and half-foot words, Fight over York and Lancaster's long jars, And in the tyring-house bring wounds to scars.
Página 41 - ... All the images of nature were still present to him, and he drew them not laboriously, but luckily; when he describes any thing, you more than see it, you feel it too. Those who accuse him to have wanted learning give him the greater commendation: he was naturally learned; he needed not the spectacles of books to read nature; he looked inwards, and found her there.
Página 41 - I cannot say he is everywhere alike; were he so, I should do him injury to compare him with the greatest of mankind. He is many times flat, insipid; his comic wit degenerating into clenches, his serious swelling into bombast. But he is always great when some great occasion is presented to him...
Página 43 - As for Jonson, to whose character I am now arrived, if we look upon him while he was himself (for his last plays were but his dotages), I think him the most learned and judicious writer which any theatre ever had. He was a most severe judge of himself, as well as others. One cannot say he wanted wit, but rather that he was frugal of it.
Página 44 - Catiline. But he has done his robberies so openly, that one may see he fears not to be taxed by any law. He invades authors like a monarch ; and what would be theft in other poets, is only victory in him. With the spoils of these writers he so represents old Rome to us, in its rites, ceremonies and customs, that if one of their poets had written either of his tragedies, we had seen less of it than in him.
Página 3 - The drift of the ensuing discourse was chiefly to vindicate the honour of our English writers from the censure of those who unjustly prefer the French before them. This I intimate, lest any should think me so exceeding vain as to teach others an art which they understand much better than myself.
Página 9 - Lisideius, after some modest denials, at last confessed he had a rude notion of it; indeed, rather a description than a definition; but which served to guide him in his private thoughts, when he was to make a judgment of what others writ: that he conceived a play ought to be a just and lively image of human nature,* representing its passions and humors, and the changes of fortune* to which it is subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind...
Página 41 - French plays, when translated, have, or ever can succeed on the English stage. For, if you consider the plots, our own are fuller of variety; if the writing, ours are more quick and fuller of spirit...
Página 42 - Jonson, never equalled them to him in their esteem: and in the last King's court, when Ben's reputation was at highest, Sir John Suckling, and with him the greater part of the courtiers, set our Shakespeare far above him.
Página 81 - I confess my chief endeavours are to delight the age in which I live. If the humour of this be for low comedy, small accidents, and raillery, I will force my genius to obey it, though with more reputation I could write in verse.