 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
 | 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
...wird. 2.4 Intendierte Wirkungen des Dramas TEXT 1 1 ... a play ought to be, A just and lively image of human nature, representing its passions and humours,...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
...which helped instantiate modern English criticism): "a play ought to be A just and lively image of human nature, representing its passions and humours,...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... | |
 | Lokangaka Losambe, Devi Sarinjeive - 2001 - 170 pages
...Poesy, John Dryden, a 17th century English poet, describes drama as: ... a just and lively image of human nature, representing its passions and humours...subject for the delight and instruction of mankind (ibidem:27). Whereas Aristotle focuses on tragedy, Dryden addresses both tragedy (passion) and comedy... | |
 | John Dryden - 2003 - 1024 pages
...make a judgment of what others writ, that he conceived a play ought to be, A just and lively image of human nature, representing its passions and humours,...logical objection against it, that it was only a genere ctfine? and so not altogether perfect) was yet well received by the rest: and, after they had given... | |
 | Joseph Carroll - 2004 - 308 pages
...dialogue on dramatic poetry, lohn Dryden's spokesman defines a play as "a just and lively image of human nature, representing its passions and humours,...subject; for the delight and instruction of mankind" ( 1970, p. 23). The question of function on this level must now be situated, at a deeper leveL in relation... | |
 | Steven N. Zwicker - 2004 - 322 pages
...Poesy (1668) where Lisideius proposes a "Description" of a play as "A just and lively Image of Humane Nature, representing its Passions and Humours, and...subject; for the Delight and Instruction of Mankind," and later Neander reiterates that poetry is the "Imitation of Humour and Passions" and will argue for... | |
 | William Andrews Clark Memorial Library Staff, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles. Center for 17th- & 18th- Century Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, Center for 17th- & 18th- Century Studies Staff - 2004 - 370 pages
...Dramatick Poesie. As Dean T. Mace has stressed, Lisideius calls 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.'1* In Dryden's dramatic theory - as, indeed, in the opinion of seventeenth-century theorists... | |
 | John Richetti - 2005 - 974 pages
...ensures a happy medium of ideas. The initial definition of a play as A just and lively Image of Humane Nature, representing its Passions and Humours, and the Changes of Fortune to which 6 Ibid., p. 243. 7 The Works of Aphra Behn. ed. Janet Todd, 7 vols. (London: Pickering & Chatto, 1992-6),... | |
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