...necessary to open a new Vein of Humour, and 60 imitate] Vgl. Johnsons "Preface to Shakespeare" (1765): "Imitations produce pain or pleasure, not because...realities, but because they bring realities to mind." Zit. nach Shakespeare Criticism. A Selection, introduced by D. Nichol Smith (London, 1946), 96. 65...

...purpose of artistic representation and theirs.1 'Johnson's position is founded on the proposition that "imitations produce pain or pleasure, not because...realities, but because they bring realities to mind" (78). The critics' position, on the other hand, was based on evident absurdities that Johnson, by their...

...presence of misery, as a mother weeps over a babe, when she remembers that death may take it from her. The delight of tragedy proceeds from our consciousness...murders and treasons real, they would please no more" (7:78). But Johnson here equivocates, for while the consciousness of fiction may be a necessary condition...

...gave the name 'Romantic Revival'. CHAPTER THREE The Nineteenth Century: Romantics to Victorians • Imitations produce pain or pleasure, not because they...realities, but because they bring realities to mind. 1 D Dr Johnson's words point to the central inadequacy of Neo-classical formulations about art such...

...human experience, are intentionally signified and embodied in them. In the words of Samuel Johnson, "imitations produce pain or pleasure not because they...for realities, but because they bring realities to mind."32 Perceiving or grasping likeness is interpreted by Aristotle as an important mode of discernment...

...first act to the last, that the stage is only a stage, and that the players are only players. . . . The delight of tragedy proceeds from our consciousness...murders and treasons real, they would please no more' (Johnson 1969: 27-8). Johnson is well aware that the audience's 'consciousness of fiction' raises a...

...to say that Shakespeare invented us, but he does intimate the true tenor of Shakespearean mimesis: 'Imitations produce pain or pleasure, not because...for realities, but because they bring realities to mind.'40 You shall have no god but Shakespeare, Johnson argued, and the men of Edinburgh, just as they...

...moment, was ever credited. . . . Delusion, if delusion be admitted, has no certain limitation .... The delight of tragedy proceeds from our consciousness...for realities, but because they bring realities to mind."?8 "A play read," Johnson observes, "affects the mind like a play acted. It is therefore evident,...

...temporary convenience. Joy on Mondays, woe on Tuesdays. Dr Johnson was not a man to mistake art for life; 'Imitations produce pain or pleasure, not because...realities, but because they bring realities to mind.' Nevertheless, some of his strongest praise of Shakespeare is for his creation of 'the mingled drama',...

...presence of misery, as a mother weeps over her babe, when she remembers that death may take it from her. The delight of tragedy proceeds from our consciousness...murders and treasons real, they would please no more [Shakespeare's] plots, whether historical or fabulous, are always crowded with incidents, by which...