...of pity and fear in an audience so as to purge off those two emotions. Dryden said that a play ought to be "a just and lively image of human nature, representing...subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind." 14 In modern times, dramatists like Shaw and Andreyev, to cite two examples, have urged a "theater...

...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 &...

...We will remember them. No. 27 1. "A just and lively image of human nature, representing its passion and humours, and the changes of fortune to which it...subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind." This was Dryden's definition of a play. How far does Shakespeare's practice, as shown in the plays...

...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."...

...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:...

...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;...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...