The Elizabethan Dramatists as CriticsGreenwood Press, 1968 - 420 pages Examines Elizabethan dramatists’ reflected and criticized their own art. |
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... things forth far surpassing her doings . Poesy therefore is an art of imitation , for so Aristotle termeth it in his ... things . . . . The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in ...
... things forth far surpassing her doings . Poesy therefore is an art of imitation , for so Aristotle termeth it in his ... things . . . . The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in ...
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... things . Therefore , because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man , poesy feigneth acts and events more heroical ; because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of ...
... things . Therefore , because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man , poesy feigneth acts and events more heroical ; because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of ...
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... Things never done , with that true life That thoughts and wits should stand at strife Whether the things now shown be true , Or whether we ourselves now do The things we but present . According to Fletcher , reality serves as a model ...
... Things never done , with that true life That thoughts and wits should stand at strife Whether the things now shown be true , Or whether we ourselves now do The things we but present . According to Fletcher , reality serves as a model ...
Contents
APPLIED CRITICISM | 1 |
EXCLUSIVE OF SHAKESPEARE AND JONSON | 18 |
SHAKESPEARE | 243 |
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