 | John Dryden, Thomas Stearns Eliot - 1928 - 120 Seiten
...judgment of what others writ : that he conceiv'da Play ought to be, A just and lively Image of Humane Nature, representing its Passions and Humours, and...subject ; for the Delight and Instruction of Mankind. This Definition, though Crites rais'da Logical Objection against it ; that it was onely a genere &... | |
 | Arthur Edwin Krows - 1928 - 592 Seiten
...Dryden, through another character, "Lisideius," almost stumbled on the truth in defining a play as, "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."... | |
 | H. James Jensen - 1969 - 141 Seiten
...art destined for the stage, a dramatic production. Dryden (or rather Lisideius) says, "A play ought to be a just and lively image of human nature, representing...subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind" (I. 25) . It differs from an opera in that it depends neither on music nor on supernatural characters:... | |
 | Edward W. Rosenheim - 1961 - 248 Seiten
...FUNCTION OF LITERATURE In Dryden's Essay of Dramatic Poesy, Lisideius offers a definition of a play as "a just and lively image of human nature, representing...subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind." But his friend Crites, always somewhat fussy, twits him and raises "a logical objection against it;... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 Seiten
...classical, modern French, Elizabethan, and Restoration plays, in which everyone agrees to define a play as "a just and lively image of human nature, representing...subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind." The very fact that Dryden cast this essay into dialogue form, where different people, each representing... | |
 | Henk de Wild - 1986 - 340 Seiten
...Rolle. Im "Essay of Dramatic Poesy" kehren diese Begriffe in Lisideius' Definition des Dramas wieder: A just and lively Image of human nature, representing...passions and humours, and the changes of fortune to whlch it is subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind. (DW I,25) Da diese Definition von... | |
 | H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - 2005 - 978 Seiten
...some excellent points. Before beginning the debate, the four agree on the definition of a play as: 'A just and lively image of human nature, representing...subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind.'^ Both Eugenius and Neander argue that English drama is more lively than that either of the ancients... | |
 | George Alexander Kennedy, Glyn P. Norton - 1989 - 790 Seiten
...to a Method'. But John Dryden still gave an essentially Horatian/Donatian definition of tragedy, as 'a just and lively image of human nature, representing...it is subject; for the delight and instruction of mankind'.50 Shakespeare might be reinvented according to the rules of reason, but Dryden would echo... | |
 | Michael J. Sidnell - 1991 - 332 Seiten
...was to make a ludgement of what others writ: that he conceived a play ought to be, A tust and livelg image of human nature. representing its passions and...humours, and the changes of fortune to which it is subtect, to the delight and instruction of mankind. This definition, though Crites raised a logical... | |
 | Arthur B. Coffin - 1991 - 354 Seiten
...in mind when he gives his well-known "definition" of a play in the Essay of Dramatic Poesy (1668): "a just and lively image of human nature, representing its passions and humours, and the changes of fortunes to which it is subject; for the delight and instruction of mankind."12 The existence of this... | |
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A just and lively image of human nature, representing its passions and humours, and the changes of fortune to which it is subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind. 
