Literary Criticism of John DrydenUniversity of Nebraska Press, 1967 - 174 pages |
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... produce for examples many of our English plays : as The Maid's Tragedy , The Alchemist , The Silent Woman.69 I was ... produced . So that to judge equally of it , it was an excellent fifth act , but not so naturally proceeding from the ...
... produce for examples many of our English plays : as The Maid's Tragedy , The Alchemist , The Silent Woman.69 I was ... produced . So that to judge equally of it , it was an excellent fifth act , but not so naturally proceeding from the ...
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... produce as many lines in blank verse , even among the greatest of our poets , against which I cannot make some reasonable exception . " And this , Sir , calls to my remembrance the beginning of your discourse , where you told us we ...
... produce as many lines in blank verse , even among the greatest of our poets , against which I cannot make some reasonable exception . " And this , Sir , calls to my remembrance the beginning of your discourse , where you told us we ...
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... produced , yet no man must argue that what they write is true because they writ it ; but ' tis evident , by the ... produce a reasonable and judicious poem . ” 27 " A Preface Containing the Grounds of Criticism in Tragedy , ” in ...
... produced , yet no man must argue that what they write is true because they writ it ; but ' tis evident , by the ... produce a reasonable and judicious poem . ” 27 " A Preface Containing the Grounds of Criticism in Tragedy , ” in ...
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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