A History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of Queen Anne, Volume 1Macmillan and Company, 1875 - English drama |
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... tragedy and comedy can be maintained by those who consider dramatic literature as a whole , and are prepared to waive the transitory distinctions drawn at various times by successive writers or schools of poets . The difference between ...
... tragedy and comedy can be maintained by those who consider dramatic literature as a whole , and are prepared to waive the transitory distinctions drawn at various times by successive writers or schools of poets . The difference between ...
Page xx
... tragedy , or in Greek comedy until it had become confined within narrow limits , and could no longer assert the claim , urged for it by Socrates , to an equal rank with tragedy herself . It was otherwise with the modern drama , and with ...
... tragedy , or in Greek comedy until it had become confined within narrow limits , and could no longer assert the claim , urged for it by Socrates , to an equal rank with tragedy herself . It was otherwise with the modern drama , and with ...
Page xxiv
... tragedy , it is a mere imitation . Once again in the history of the Western world the drama and dramatic literature rose to glorious per- fection in close association with national life . But this time it was not a single nation , still ...
... tragedy , it is a mere imitation . Once again in the history of the Western world the drama and dramatic literature rose to glorious per- fection in close association with national life . But this time it was not a single nation , still ...
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... tragedy moved with broken wings ; while French comedy , domesticating itself in the palace with the same flexibility with which its grosser predecessor had escaped from the control of the Church , created for itself a sphere in which it ...
... tragedy moved with broken wings ; while French comedy , domesticating itself in the palace with the same flexibility with which its grosser predecessor had escaped from the control of the Church , created for itself a sphere in which it ...
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... tragedy . After having vainly sought to give vitality to an artificial and unhealthy style , our tragic drama will be seen recurring - only however in some degree - to earlier native examples , but merely to sink into impotence , ill ...
... tragedy . After having vainly sought to give vitality to an artificial and unhealthy style , our tragic drama will be seen recurring - only however in some degree - to earlier native examples , but merely to sink into impotence , ill ...
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