Dramatic EssaysJ.M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1928 - 299 pages |
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Page 43
... humour ; it must be common to more , and the more common the more natural . To prove this , they instance in the best of comical characters , Falstaff . There are many men resembling him ; old , fat , merry , cowardly , drunken ...
... humour ; it must be common to more , and the more common the more natural . To prove this , they instance in the best of comical characters , Falstaff . There are many men resembling him ; old , fat , merry , cowardly , drunken ...
Page 64
... humour of this be for low comedy , small accidents , and raillery , I will force my genius to obey it , though with more reputation I could write in verse . I know I am not so fitted by nature to write comedy : I want that gaiety of humour ...
... humour of this be for low comedy , small accidents , and raillery , I will force my genius to obey it , though with more reputation I could write in verse . I know I am not so fitted by nature to write comedy : I want that gaiety of humour ...
Page 81
... humour ; because , in the characters of humour , the poet is confined to make the person speak what is only proper to it . Whereas , all kind of wit is proper in the charatcer of a witty person . But , by their favour , there are as ...
... humour ; because , in the characters of humour , the poet is confined to make the person speak what is only proper to it . Whereas , all kind of wit is proper in the charatcer of a witty person . But , by their favour , there are as ...
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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