 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.  An Essay of Dramatic Poesy - Page 17by John Dryden - 1922 - 179 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1892 - 1058 pages
...a play " ought to be a just and lively image of human nature, representing its passions and humors, and the changes of fortune to which it is subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind." * Eugenius, responding on behalf of the moderns to an attack by Crites, vigorously defends the unorthodox... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1909 - 578 pages
...changes of fortune to which it is subject, *for the delightgnd instruction of mankind." This definiljon (though Crites raised a logical objection against it — that it was only a genere et fine, and so not altogether perfect) was yet well received by the rest: and after they had given order to... | |
 | Barrett Harper Clark - 1918 - 528 pages
...nature, representing it» patiion» and humor», and the change» of fortune to •which it i» »ubject, for the delight and instruction of mankind. This definition,...logical objection against it — that it was only genere et fine, and so not altogether perfect, was yet well received by the rest, Crites, being desired... | |
 | Barrett Harper Clark - 1918 - 524 pages
...a play ought to be, A just and lively image of human nature, representing its passions and liumors, and the changes of fortune to which it is subject, for the deUaht and instruction of mankind. This definition, though Crites« raised a logical objection against... | |
 | Frank James Mathew - 1922 - 460 pages
...Dryden's Essay of Dramatic Poesy says that " he conceived a Play ought to be a just and lively image of human nature, representing its passions and humours,...for the delight and instruction of mankind." This was Hamlet's view when he said that the purpose of Playing was " to hold, as it were, the Mirror up... | |
 | Barrett Harper Clark - 1918 - 532 pages
...paetiont and humors, and the change» of fortune to which it it subject, for the delight and mstruction of mankind. This definition, though Crites * raised...logical objection against it — that it was only gtHf.re et fine, and so not altogether perfect, was yet well received by the rest, Crites, being desired... | |
 | John Dryden, Thomas Stearns Eliot - 1928 - 120 pages
...judgment of what others writ : that he conceiv'da Play ought to be, A just and lively Image of Humane Nature, representing its Passions and Humours, and...Instruction of Mankind. This Definition, though Crites rais'da Logical Objection against it ; that it was onely a genere & fine, and so not altogether perfect... | |
 | Elizabeth Nitchie - 1928 - 422 pages
...as to purge off those two emotions. Dryden said that a play ought to be "a just and lively image of human nature, representing its passions and humours,...subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind." 14 In modern times, dramatists like Shaw and Andreyev, to cite two examples, have urged a "theater... | |
 | Frederic W. Robinson - 1928 - 96 pages
...We will remember them. No. 27 1. "A just and lively image of human nature, representing its passion and humours, and the changes of fortune to which it...for the delight and instruction of mankind." This was Dryden's definition of a play. How far does Shakespeare's practice, as shown in the plays you have... | |
 | Arthur Edwin Krows - 1928 - 592 pages
...defining a play as, "a just and lively image of human nature, representing its passions and humors and the changes of fortune to which it is subject, for the delight and instruction of mankind." It was the custom in Spain in Lope de Vega's time to write three-act plays; and the great Lope himself... | |
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