Mr. Johnson's Preface to His Edition of Shakespear's Plays..J. and R. Tonson, H. Woodfall, J. Rivington, R. Baldwin, L. Hawes, Clark and Collins, T. Longman, W. Johnston, T. Caslon, C. Corbet, T. Lownds, and the executors of B. Dodd., 1765 - 72 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة xiv
Thus rose the two modes of imitation , known by the names of tragedy and
comedy , compositions intended to promote different ends by contrary means ,
and considered as so little allied , that I do not recollect among the Greeks or
Romans a ...
Thus rose the two modes of imitation , known by the names of tragedy and
comedy , compositions intended to promote different ends by contrary means ,
and considered as so little allied , that I do not recollect among the Greeks or
Romans a ...
الصفحة xv
An action which ended happily to be principal persons , however serious or
distressful through its intermediate incidents , in their opinion constituted a
comedy . This idea of a comedy continued long amongst us , and plays wstę
written , which ...
An action which ended happily to be principal persons , however serious or
distressful through its intermediate incidents , in their opinion constituted a
comedy . This idea of a comedy continued long amongst us , and plays wstę
written , which ...
الصفحة xvii
In tragedy he is always struggling after some occasion to be comick , but in
comedy he seems to repose , or to luxuriate , as in a mode of thinking congenial
to his nature . In his tragick scenes there is always something wanting , but bis
comedy ...
In tragedy he is always struggling after some occasion to be comick , but in
comedy he seems to repose , or to luxuriate , as in a mode of thinking congenial
to his nature . In his tragick scenes there is always something wanting , but bis
comedy ...
الصفحة xxix
A dramatick exhibition is a book recited with concomitants that encrease or
diminish its effect , Familiar comedy is often inore powerful on the theatre , than in
the page ; imperial tragedy is always less . The humour of Petruchio may be ...
A dramatick exhibition is a book recited with concomitants that encrease or
diminish its effect , Familiar comedy is often inore powerful on the theatre , than in
the page ; imperial tragedy is always less . The humour of Petruchio may be ...
الصفحة xxxix
He found the English stage in a state of the utmost rudeness ; no eslays either in
tragedy or comedy had appeared , from which it could be discovered to what
degree of delight either one or other might be carried . Neither character nor ...
He found the English stage in a state of the utmost rudeness ; no eslays either in
tragedy or comedy had appeared , from which it could be discovered to what
degree of delight either one or other might be carried . Neither character nor ...
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