Dramatic EssaysJ.M. Dent & sons, Limited, 1928 - 299 pages |
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... play ) , were delivered to us from the observations which Aristotle made , of those poets , who either lived before him , or were his contemporaries : we have added nothing of our own , except we have the confidence to say our wit is ...
... play ) , were delivered to us from the observations which Aristotle made , of those poets , who either lived before him , or were his contemporaries : we have added nothing of our own , except we have the confidence to say our wit is ...
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... play , in the same place where it was laid in the beginning : for , the stage on which it is represented being but one and the same place , it is unnatural to conceive it many , —and those far distant from one another . I will not deny ...
... play , in the same place where it was laid in the beginning : for , the stage on which it is represented being but one and the same place , it is unnatural to conceive it many , —and those far distant from one another . I will not deny ...
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... play . There is another crime with which I am charged , at which I am yet much less concerned , because it does not relate to my manners , as the former did , but only to my reputation as a poet : a name of which I assure the reader I ...
... play . There is another crime with which I am charged , at which I am yet much less concerned , because it does not relate to my manners , as the former did , but only to my reputation as a poet : a name of which I assure the reader I ...
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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