...'the unities were essential to a tragedy. Dr. Johnson writes : — The objection [to change of scene] arising from the impossibility of passing the first...supposes, that when the play opens, the spectator really believes himself at Alexandria, and believes that his walk to the theatre has been a voyage to Egypt,...

...fable in ils materiality was ever credible, or, for a single moment, was ever credited. The objection arising from the impossibility of passing the first hour at Alexandria and the next at Rome, supscenico et qui, il n'ya qu'un instant, était la place SaintMarc à Venise, ne peut pas être, cinq...

...space with a recognition of the falsity of the usual neoclassical assumption of delusion. The objection arising from the impossibility of passing the first...really imagines himself at Alexandria, and believes his walk to the theater has been a voyage to Egypt, and that he lives in the days of Antony and Cleopatra....

...(i) Johnson appeals to the imaginative basis of literature in attacking the unities: "The objection arising from the impossibility of passing the first...voyage to Egypt, and that he lives in the days of Anthony and Cleopatra. Surely he that imagines this may imagine more." And the Doctor goes on to give...

...fable in its materiality was ever credible, or for a single moment was ever credited. The objection arising from the impossibility of passing the first...himself at Alexandria and believes that his walk to the theater has been a voyage to Egypt and that he lives in the days of Antony and Cleopatra. Surely he...

...expected to suppose that "he sees the next at Rome." This would be true only if at the opening of the play "the spectator really imagines himself at Alexandria,...Egypt, and that he lives in the days of Antony and \11~\ Cleopatra." In truth, however, since the spectator knows that the stage is only a stage, he will...

...is why the unities of time and place need not be deemed absolute mandates. Since we cannot suppose "that when the play opens, the spectator really imagines himself at Alexandria," we must grant that the illusions of time and place are elements that the imagination may "willingly...

...unities of time and place arises from the supposed necessity of making the drama credible. The objection arising from the impossibility of passing the first...voyage to Egypt, and that he lives in the days of Cleopatra . . . The truth is that the spectators are always in their senses and know, from the first...

...traditional issue of whether poets lie to an epistemological or psychological crisis in the audience. If, when the play opens, 'the spectator really imagines...that he lives in the days of Antony and Cleopatra' — anyone familiar with Johnson's style or thought will detect the sarcasm there, will feel the bubble...

...neoclassicists' attacks on Shakespeare provides us with the best gloss on this scene: The objection arising from the impossibility of passing the first...Egypt, and that he lives in the days of Antony and Cleopatra.20 What is being emphasised in 'The Pageant of the Nine Worthies' is the irretrievability...