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As to those poets who make use of spectacle in order to produce , not the terrible , but the marvelous only , their purpose has nothing in common with that of tragedy . For we are not to seek for every sort of pleasure from tragedy ...
As to those poets who make use of spectacle in order to produce , not the terrible , but the marvelous only , their purpose has nothing in common with that of tragedy . For we are not to seek for every sort of pleasure from tragedy ...
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Since tragedy is an imitation of what is best , we should follow the example of skillful portrait - painters ; who , while they express the peculiar lineaments , and produce a likeness , at the same time improve upon the original .
Since tragedy is an imitation of what is best , we should follow the example of skillful portrait - painters ; who , while they express the peculiar lineaments , and produce a likeness , at the same time improve upon the original .
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This perception produces something like a feeling of acquiescence in the catastrophe , though it neither leads us to ... not include the whole of the facts , and therefore does not wholly correspond with the impressions they produce .
This perception produces something like a feeling of acquiescence in the catastrophe , though it neither leads us to ... not include the whole of the facts , and therefore does not wholly correspond with the impressions they produce .
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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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| Pealkiri | In Shakespeare's Day A Fawcett premier book, M471. Literature and ideas series Fawcett premier book Literature and ideas series |
| Editor | James Vincent Cunningham |
| Compiled by | James Vincent Cunningham |
| Publisher | Fawcett Publications, 1970 |
| Length | 351 pages |
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