Eighteenth Century Essays on ShakespeareDavid Nichol Smith J. MacLehose and Sons, 1903 - 358 páginas |
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Página xv
... comedy was the common mistake of that age , " and there was as yet no definite knowledge of how a play should be constructed . The burden of Rowe's criticism is that “ strength and nature made amends for art . " The line might serve as ...
... comedy was the common mistake of that age , " and there was as yet no definite knowledge of how a play should be constructed . The burden of Rowe's criticism is that “ strength and nature made amends for art . " The line might serve as ...
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... comedy , but the main contention of Dennis's letters is that he had an unequalled gift for tragedy . As a critic Dennis is greatly superior to Rymer and his disciples . The ancients guided his taste without blinding him to modern ...
... comedy , but the main contention of Dennis's letters is that he had an unequalled gift for tragedy . As a critic Dennis is greatly superior to Rymer and his disciples . The ancients guided his taste without blinding him to modern ...
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... comedy and underplots . In the Biographia Britannica we still find it stated that Shakespeare set himself to please the populace , and that the people " had no notion of the rules of writing , or the model of the Ancients . But one ...
... comedy and underplots . In the Biographia Britannica we still find it stated that Shakespeare set himself to please the populace , and that the people " had no notion of the rules of writing , or the model of the Ancients . But one ...
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... Comedy of Errors was founded , ' and the first to show that it was not necessary to go back to the Tale of Gamelyn for the story of As you like it . There is no evidence how he came by this knowledge . The casual and allusive manner in ...
... Comedy of Errors was founded , ' and the first to show that it was not necessary to go back to the Tale of Gamelyn for the story of As you like it . There is no evidence how he came by this knowledge . The casual and allusive manner in ...
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... Comedy of Errors , in a great measure taken from the Menæchmi of Plautus . How that happen'd , I cannot easily divine , since , as I hinted before , I do not take him to have been master of Latin enough to read it in the original , and ...
... Comedy of Errors , in a great measure taken from the Menæchmi of Plautus . How that happen'd , I cannot easily divine , since , as I hinted before , I do not take him to have been master of Latin enough to read it in the original , and ...
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