Dramatic EssaysJ.M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1928 - 299 pages |
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Page 65
... faults ; for ten days after his book is published , and that his mistakes are grown so famous that they are come back to him , he sends his Errata to be printed , and annexed to his play ; and desires , that instead of shutting you ...
... faults ; for ten days after his book is published , and that his mistakes are grown so famous that they are come back to him , he sends his Errata to be printed , and annexed to his play ; and desires , that instead of shutting you ...
Page 83
... faults which it represents , as Tragedy . For the persons in Comedy are of a lower quality , the action is little , and the faults and vices are but the sallies of youth , and the frailties of human nature , and not premeditated crimes ...
... faults which it represents , as Tragedy . For the persons in Comedy are of a lower quality , the action is little , and the faults and vices are but the sallies of youth , and the frailties of human nature , and not premeditated crimes ...
Page 109
... fault . Criticism , as it was first instituted by Aristotle , was meant a standard of judging well ; the chiefest ... faults , but seldom or never rises to any excellence . He compares the first to a man of large possessions , who has ...
... fault . Criticism , as it was first instituted by Aristotle , was meant a standard of judging well ; the chiefest ... faults , but seldom or never rises to any excellence . He compares the first to a man of large possessions , who has ...
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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