Dramatic EssaysJ.M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1928 - 299 pages |
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... concernment where he most endeavoured it . The masterpiece of Seneca I hold to be that scene in the Troades , where Ulysses is seeking for Astyanax to kill him : there you see the tenderness of a mother so repre- sented in Andromache ...
... concernment where he most endeavoured it . The masterpiece of Seneca I hold to be that scene in the Troades , where Ulysses is seeking for Astyanax to kill him : there you see the tenderness of a mother so repre- sented in Andromache ...
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... concernment ; but are not mirth and compassion things incompatible ? and is it not evident that the poet must of necessity destroy the former by intermingling of the latter ? that is , he must ruin the sole end and object of his tragedy ...
... concernment ; but are not mirth and compassion things incompatible ? and is it not evident that the poet must of necessity destroy the former by intermingling of the latter ? that is , he must ruin the sole end and object of his tragedy ...
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... concernment : nunc non erat hisce locus ; and therefore he deferred it to its proper place . These are the criticisms of most moment which have been made against the Eneis by the Ancients or Moderns . As for the particular exceptions ...
... concernment : nunc non erat hisce locus ; and therefore he deferred it to its proper place . These are the criticisms of most moment which have been made against the Eneis by the Ancients or Moderns . As for the particular exceptions ...
Contents
EPISTLE DEDICATORY TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE CHARLES Lord | 1 |
A DEFENCE OF AN ESSAY OF DRAMATIC POESY | 60 |
ON COMEDY Farce and TRAGEDY | 77 |
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