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activity actor AINA AIND Antigone appear Aristotle artist Banquo beginning bitter Brutus catastrophe causality character CHIG climax Comedy of Errors comic effect comic interest contrast Coriolanus death dramatist Edipus element emphasizes English Essay exciting force falling action feel Fleance French Freytag Greek drama Hamlet Heinrich human Iago IGAN incongruity infra inner instance intellectual Jonson's Julius Cæsar kind king Lady Macbeth Lear less Love's Labour's Lost main plot merely MIC UNIV MICHI mind Molière Molière's moral murder nature Othello outer passion pathetic perception persons Plautus play Poetics presents R. C. Jebb Richard III rising action Romeo and Juliet RSITY satire scene scene-group seen sense serious drama Shakespeare SITY soliloquy Sophocles soul spiritual stage Strafford struggle suggested sympathy theme things third act tion tragedy tragic hero treatment true turning-point unity UNIV UNIV UNIV victim Wellborn wholly words
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Page 136 - Not on the vulgar mass Called " work," must sentence pass, Things done, that took the eye and had the price; O'er which, from level stand, The low world laid its hand, Found straightway to its mind, could value in a trice...
Page 136 - Thoughts hardly to be packed Into a narrow act, Fancies that broke through language and escaped; All I could never be, All, men ignored in me, This, I was worth to God, whose wheel the pitcher shaped.
Page 64 - The passion of laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly...
Page 77 - To be suspected ; fram'd to make women false. The Moor is of a free and open nature, That thinks men honest, that but seem to be so ; And will as tenderly be led by the nose, As asses are. I have't ; — it is engender'd : — Hell and night Must bring this monstrous birth to the world's light.
Page 71 - Comedy is an imitation of the common errors of our life, which he representeth in the most ridiculous and scornful sort that may be, so as it is impossible that any beholder can be content to be such a one.
Page 18 - A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle, and an end. A beginning is that which does not itself follow anything by causal necessity, but after which something naturally is or comes to be. An end, on the contrary, is that which itself naturally follows some other thing, either by necessity, or as a rule, but has nothing following it. A middle is that which follows something as some other thing follows it.
Page 42 - To be nailed down into a narrow place ; To see no more sweet sunshine ; hear no more Blithe voice of living thing ; muse not again Upon familiar thoughts, sad, yet thus lost ! How fearful ! to be nothing ! Or to be — • What?
Page 13 - Tragedy endeavours, as far as possible, to confine itself to a single revolution of the sun, or but slightly to exceed this limit ; whereas the Epic action has no limits of time.
Page 72 - Well, I will scourge those apes, And to these courteous eyes oppose a mirror, As large as is the stage whereon we act ; Where they shall see the time's deformity Anatomized in every nerve and sinew, With constant courage, and contempt of fear.