Dryden's Dramatic Theory and Praxis ...O. Schmidt, 1892 - 69 Seiten |
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Seite 42 - HE who writ this, not without pains and thought, From French and English theatres has brought Th' exactest rules, by which a play is wrought.
Seite 49 - ... and therefore the French poets are often forced upon absurdities; for if the act begins in a chamber, all the persons in the play must have some business or other to come thither or else they are not to be shown that act; and sometimes their characters are very unfitting to appear there.
Seite 14 - ... a just and lively image of human nature,* representing its passions and humors, and the changes of fortune* to which it is subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind...
Seite 10 - I am convinced that compassion and mirth in the same subject destroy each other; and in the mean time, cannot but conclude, to the honour of our nation, that we have invented, increased, and perfected, a more pleasant way of writing for the stage, than was ever known to the ancients or moderns of any nation, which is tragi-comedy.
Seite 9 - The drift of the ensuing discourse was chiefly to vindicate the honour of our English writers from the censure of those who unjustly prefer the French before them.
Seite 64 - Perhaps after all, if we could think so, the ancient method, as it is the easiest, is also the most natural and the best : for variety, as it is managed, is too often subject to breed distraction ; and while we would please too many ways, for want of art in the conduct, we please in none.
Seite 21 - It is an imitation of one entire, great, and probable action; not told, but represented; which, by moving in us fear and pity, is conducive to the purging of those two passions in our minds.
Seite 35 - Plague, were not so solicitous to provide against it, as to know whether we had it from the malignity of our own air, or by transportation from Holland. I have therefore only to affirm, that it is not allowable in serious plays; for comedies, I find you already concluding with me. To prove this, I might satisfy myself to tell you, how much in vain it is for you to strive against the stream of the people's inclination...
Seite 8 - This last consideration has already answered an objection which some have made, that rhyme is only an embroidery of sense, to make that which is ordinary in itself pass for excellent with less examination. But certainly, that which most regulates the fancy, and gives the judgment its busiest employment, is like to bring forth the richest and clearest thoughts.
Seite 8 - This is that which makes them say rhyme is not natural, it being only so, when the poet either makes a vicious choice of words, or places them, for rhyme sake, so unnaturally as no man would in ordinary speaking...