Dramatic EssaysJ.M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1928 - 299 pages |
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... Heroic Play . Hence the signi- ficance of Dryden's concern with this extraordinary form of over - blown tragedy or melodrama which , arising from the combined influences of the older English theatre , the epic poem , French heroic ...
... Heroic Play . Hence the signi- ficance of Dryden's concern with this extraordinary form of over - blown tragedy or melodrama which , arising from the combined influences of the older English theatre , the epic poem , French heroic ...
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John Dryden. heroic play ought to be an imitation , in little , of an heroic poem ; and , consequently , that love and valour ought to be the subject of it . Both these Sir William D'Avenant had begun to shadow ; but it was so , as first ...
John Dryden. heroic play ought to be an imitation , in little , of an heroic poem ; and , consequently , that love and valour ought to be the subject of it . Both these Sir William D'Avenant had begun to shadow ; but it was so , as first ...
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... heroic plays by the rules of an heroic poem . And if that be the most noble , the most pleasant , and the most instructive way of writing in verse , and withal the highest pattern of human life , as all poets have agreed , I shall need ...
... heroic plays by the rules of an heroic poem . And if that be the most noble , the most pleasant , and the most instructive way of writing in verse , and withal the highest pattern of human life , as all poets have agreed , I shall need ...
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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