Literary Criticism of John DrydenUniversity of Nebraska Press, 1967 - 174 pages |
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... argument : he is concerned with justifying his profession as a dramatist , and this commits him to a general defense of English theatrical conventions against critics who advocated the very different practices of the Greek and Roman or ...
... argument : he is concerned with justifying his profession as a dramatist , and this commits him to a general defense of English theatrical conventions against critics who advocated the very different practices of the Greek and Roman or ...
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... argument to the question in hand ; for the dispute was not which way a man may write best , but which is most proper for the subject on which he writes . " First , give me leave , Sir , to remember you that the argument against which ...
... argument to the question in hand ; for the dispute was not which way a man may write best , but which is most proper for the subject on which he writes . " First , give me leave , Sir , to remember you that the argument against which ...
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... argument is indeed no more than a mere fallacy , which will evidently appear when we distinguish place , as it relates to plays , into real and imaginary . The real place is that theater or piece of ground on which the play is acted ...
... argument is indeed no more than a mere fallacy , which will evidently appear when we distinguish place , as it relates to plays , into real and imaginary . The real place is that theater or piece of ground on which the play is acted ...
Contents
A Defence of An Essay of Dramatic Poesy 1668 | 70 |
Preface to An Evenings Love 1671 | 90 |
Heads of an Answer to Rymer 1677 | 115 |
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