Literary Criticism of John DrydenUniversity of Nebraska Press, 1967 - 174 pages |
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Page 14
... stage ; and that the intervals and inequalities of time be supposed to fall out between the acts . " This rule of time , how well it has been observed by the Ancients , most of their plays will witness ; you see them in their tragedies ...
... stage ; and that the intervals and inequalities of time be supposed to fall out between the acts . " This rule of time , how well it has been observed by the Ancients , most of their plays will witness ; you see them in their tragedies ...
Page 33
... stage which will inforce us upon that rock , because we see they are seldom listened to by the audience , and that is many times the ruin of the play . For , being once let pass without attention , the audience can never recover ...
... stage which will inforce us upon that rock , because we see they are seldom listened to by the audience , and that is many times the ruin of the play . For , being once let pass without attention , the audience can never recover ...
Page 84
... stage cannot properly present two rooms or houses , much less two countries or kingdoms , then there can be no unity of place : but one stage cannot properly perform this ; therefore there can be no unity of place . I plainly deny his ...
... stage cannot properly present two rooms or houses , much less two countries or kingdoms , then there can be no unity of place : but one stage cannot properly perform this ; therefore there can be no unity of place . I plainly deny his ...
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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acknowledge action admire allowed already Ancients answer appear argument Aristotle audience beauties beginning better betwixt called cause characters Chaucer comedy compass concernment conclude Corneille criticism defend delight discourse Dryden English equal errors Essay example excellent expression faults Fletcher follow French give given greater greatest Greek Homer humour imagination imitation Jonson judge judgment kind language latter least leave less lines lived manners means move nature never observed occasion opinion passions perfection perhaps persons pity Plautus play pleased plot poem poesy poet poetry practice preface present probability produce proper prove raised reader reason relation represented rest rhyme rule scene sense serious Shakespeare sometimes speak stage story supposed tell things thoughts tragedy translated true verse Virgil virtue whole wholly writ write written