In Shakespeare's DayJames Vincent Cunningham Fawcett Publications, 1970 - 351 pages |
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Page 103
... fable . Because tragedy is an imita- tion , not of men , but of actions of life , of happiness and unhappiness ; for happiness consists in action , and the su- preme good itself , the very end of life , is action of a certain kind - not ...
... fable . Because tragedy is an imita- tion , not of men , but of actions of life , of happiness and unhappiness ; for happiness consists in action , and the su- preme good itself , the very end of life , is action of a certain kind - not ...
Page 105
... fable a certain length is requisite , but that length must be such as to present a whole easily comprehended by the memory . With respect to the measure of this length - if referred to actual representation in the dramatic contests , it ...
... fable a certain length is requisite , but that length must be such as to present a whole easily comprehended by the memory . With respect to the measure of this length - if referred to actual representation in the dramatic contests , it ...
Page 112
... fable should arise out of the fable itself , and not depend upon machinery as in the Medea , or in the incidents relative to the return of the Greeks in the Iliad . The proper application of machinery is to such circumstances as are ...
... fable should arise out of the fable itself , and not depend upon machinery as in the Medea , or in the incidents relative to the return of the Greeks in the Iliad . The proper application of machinery is to such circumstances as are ...
Contents
Introduction by J V Cunningham page | 11 |
Queen Elizabeth at Greenwich | 17 |
Julius Caesar at the Globe 1599 | 27 |
Copyright | |
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action actors appear audience Ben Jonson Burbage called character comedy comic Cordeilla Court criticism Cymbeline daughter death delight divers doth drama earl effect Elizabethan England English evil excellent fable fault fear feel fortune friends gentlemen Hamlet hath Henry hero honor humorous Iago imitation INGENIOSO J. V. Cunningham jests John John Marston jokes Jonson JUDICIO justice kind King King Lear ladies laugh Lear live London Lord Lord Chamberlain Macbeth Majesty manner matter means mind moral nature never night Othello passions persons pity play players pleasure plot poet poetry present Prince Queen reason Richard Richard III ridiculous Romeo and Juliet scene servants Shakespeare Shakespearean tragedy Simon Forman sort speak speech stage story theater thee thereof things Thomas Thomas Nashe thou thought tion tragic truth unto verse whole William Shakespeare words