Comic Theory in the Sixteenth CenturyUniversity of Illinois Press, 1964 - 248 páginas This book reveals that Terence and the Terentian commentators furnished the principal matter for the discussion of comedy in the sixteenth century, and that the study of Terentian comedy in the first half of the century laid the main foundations of Renaissance theories of comedy. |
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... tragedy was supposed to be mainly serious and lofty , the style of comedy generally light and familiar . Dante , who offered a typical medieval summary in his letter to Can Grande della Scala , said that tragedy begins quietly but ends ...
... tragedy was supposed to be mainly serious and lofty , the style of comedy generally light and familiar . Dante , who offered a typical medieval summary in his letter to Can Grande della Scala , said that tragedy begins quietly but ends ...
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... Tragedy , however , differ from one another , first in the rank of personages , who in comedy are of less account and plebeian , in tragedy noble and royal . XLIII . Second , in the quality of employments and affairs , which in comedy ...
... Tragedy , however , differ from one another , first in the rank of personages , who in comedy are of less account and plebeian , in tragedy noble and royal . XLIII . Second , in the quality of employments and affairs , which in comedy ...
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... tragedy , and as it were contrary to them , because tragedy produces the effect of its teaching with pity , with tears , and with fear , which are sad things , while comedy does it with jokes and with laughter , which are pleasant ...
... tragedy , and as it were contrary to them , because tragedy produces the effect of its teaching with pity , with tears , and with fear , which are sad things , while comedy does it with jokes and with laughter , which are pleasant ...
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THE PLACE OF RHETORIC IN POETICS | 6 |
THE QUALITAtive Parts of RHETORIC | 18 |
THE QUANTITATIVE PARTS OF RHETORIC | 26 |
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