 | H. B. Nisbet, Claude Rawson - 2005 - 978 pages
...some excellent points. Before beginning the debate, the four agree on the definition of a play as: 'A just and lively image of human nature, representing...subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind.'^ Both Eugenius and Neander argue that English drama is more lively than that either of the ancients... | |
 | George Alexander Kennedy, Glyn P. Norton - 1989 - 790 pages
...to a Method'. But John Dryden still gave an essentially Horatian/Donatian definition of tragedy, as 'a just and lively image of human nature, representing...it is subject; for the delight and instruction of mankind'.50 Shakespeare might be reinvented according to the rules of reason, but Dryden would echo... | |
 | Michael J. Sidnell - 1991 - 332 pages
...was to make a ludgement of what others writ: that he conceived a play ought to be, A tust and livelg image of human nature. representing its passions and...humours, and the changes of fortune to which it is subtect, to the delight and instruction of mankind. This definition, though Crites raised a logical... | |
 | Arthur B. Coffin - 1991 - 354 pages
...in mind when he gives his well-known "definition" of a play in the Essay of Dramatic Poesy (1668): "a just and lively image of human nature, representing its passions and humours, and the changes of fortunes to which it is subject; for the delight and instruction of mankind."12 The existence of this... | |
 | Timothy J. Reiss - 1992 - 412 pages
...in the superstructures." It was these superstructures that provided what Dryden had earlier called "a just and lively image of human nature, representing...it is subject; for the delight and instruction of mankind."12 Kammsky's summary of Hegel's view is once again revealing here: "The aitistic experience,... | |
 | Marvin A. Carlson - 1993 - 564 pages
...Neander. The discussants first agree upon a definition of a play: "a just and lively Image of Humane Nature, representing its Passions and Humours, and...it is subject; for the Delight and Instruction of Mankind."6 Then they embark upon the first major debate, whether the ancients or moderns were superior... | |
 | David Haley - 1997 - 316 pages
...speaker who succeeds Eugenius, had originally defined a play as "A just and lively Image of Humane Nature, representing its Passions and Humours, and the Changes of Fortune to which it is subject." Grites had objected that the definition was not properly dramatic, as well he might: not only does... | |
 | Elke Platz-Waury - 1978 - 272 pages
...moderner Regisseure bevorzugt wird. 2.4 Intendierte Wirkungen des Dramas TEXT 1 1 ... a play ought to be, A just and lively image of human nature, representing...it is subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind.66 - ... und darum wählte er [dh der Gesetzgeber) vor allem andern die Bühne, die dem nach... | |
 | Jürgen Schlaeger - 1999 - 188 pages
...Dryden' s critical reflections which helped instantiate modern English criticism): "a play ought to be A just and lively image of human nature, representing...it is subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind."2 Representing the passions and humours of people, with the changes of fortune to which human... | |
 | Michael Werth Gelber - 2002 - 358 pages
...a Definition' - of their own. A play, they conclude, ought to be, A just and lively Image of Humane Nature, representing its Passions and Humours, and...Changes of Fortune to which it is subject; for the Del(ght and Instruction of Mankind)* This standard appears to be a middle course between the extremes... | |
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A just and lively image of human nature, representing its passions and humours, and the changes of fortune to which it is subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind. 
