Literary Criticism of John DrydenUniversity of Nebraska Press, 1967 - 174 pages |
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Page 14
... scene ought to be continued through the 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 ...
... scene ought to be continued through the 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 ...
Page 84
... scene of the play is laid . Let us now apply this to that Herculean argument , which if strictly and duly weighed ... scene might lead the imagination to suppose the place altered : so that he cannot fasten those absurdi- ties upon this ...
... scene of the play is laid . Let us now apply this to that Herculean argument , which if strictly and duly weighed ... scene might lead the imagination to suppose the place altered : so that he cannot fasten those absurdi- ties upon this ...
Page 126
... scenes ; removing them from the places where they were inartificially set ; and though it was impossible to keep ' em all unbroken , because the scene must be sometimes in the city and sometimes in the camp , yet I have so ordered them ...
... scenes ; removing them from the places where they were inartificially set ; and though it was impossible to keep ' em all unbroken , because the scene must be sometimes in the city and sometimes in the camp , yet I have so ordered them ...
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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