...(1692): and Voltaire. Appel a toutes les nations de /'Europe ( 1 76 1 ). a drunkard. But Shakespeare always makes nature predominate over accident; and...dispositions; and wanting a buffoon, he went into the senate house for that which the senate house would certainly have afforded him. He was inclined to...

...his assigned place. in short. in the plot. Thus Shakespeare willingly flouts the Aristotelian muthas: 'His story requires Romans or kings. but he thinks only on men'" (27). Historically. challenges to the Aristotelian subordination of character to plot tended to be...

...professional criticism, would have made the plays better than they are: "Shakespeare has no heroes His story requires Romans or kings, but he thinks only on men" (pp. 64-65). Johnson is here renouncing a standard neo-classical formula for the creation of character....

...cites Johnson's observation on the dramatist's Beauties and Defects as character maker: 'Shakespeare always makes nature predominate over accident, and,...requires Romans or kings, but he thinks only on men ... A poet overlooks the casual distinctions of country and condition, as a painter, satisfied with...

...Dennis is offended that Menenius, a senator of Rome, should play the buffoon. . . . But Shakespeare always makes nature predominate over accident; and,...story requires Romans or kings, but he thinks only on men.22 In a few brief sentences, Johnson shifted criticism from a conception of the play as an idealized...

...completely royal" and that Menenius in Coriolanus is "not sufficiendy Roman"; Johnson answers: Shakespeare always makes nature predominate over accident; and...requires Romans or kings, but he thinks only on men. (65) Johnson's usage here of the Scholastic categories of essence and accident and his identification...

...matter because Shakespeare also transcended his age by 'his adherence to general nature': 'Shakespeare always makes nature predominate over accident; and,...story requires Romans or kings, but he thinks only on men'.4 This appeal to 'Nature' is unlikely to satisfy a modern;8 such 'essentialism' is now regarded...

...nature predominate over accident ; and if hc preserves the essential character, is not very carcful of distinctions superinduced and adventitious. His...requires Romans or Kings, but he thinks only on men. He kni'w tbat Rome, like every other city, had men of all dispositions; and wanting a buflfbon he went...

...adventitions. His story reqnires Romans or kings, bnt he tbinks only on men. He knew that Home, like cvery other city, had men of all dispositions : and wanting a buffoon, he went into the Senate honse for that wbicli the Senate house woulcl certainly have afforded him. He was inclined to...