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... dramatists , but they were conditions which stimulated men to produce really great art . The Greek dramatist was hedged about with restric- tions . His choice of material was limited to the old saga- material of early Greek history ...
... dramatists , but they were conditions which stimulated men to produce really great art . The Greek dramatist was hedged about with restric- tions . His choice of material was limited to the old saga- material of early Greek history ...
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... dramatist to pre- sent only such phases of life as were acceptable to a royal court governed by the strictest rules of conven- tional decorum . The safest material for the dramatist was classic legends , but they had to be refined and ...
... dramatist to pre- sent only such phases of life as were acceptable to a royal court governed by the strictest rules of conven- tional decorum . The safest material for the dramatist was classic legends , but they had to be refined and ...
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... are not so bound by local con- ditions as modern characters . In attempting to interpret our time modern dramatists have become bound by the local and temporary . A dramatist like Ben Jonson who 212 STUDY AND APPRECIATION OF LITERATURE.
... are not so bound by local con- ditions as modern characters . In attempting to interpret our time modern dramatists have become bound by the local and temporary . A dramatist like Ben Jonson who 212 STUDY AND APPRECIATION OF LITERATURE.
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action Æschylus audience ballad beauty Ben Jonson characters charm classic climax comedy complete criticism Darcy death developed dominance drama dramatic literature dramatist Edipus eighteenth century Elizabeth Elizabethan emotional English literature epic essay essayist experience exposition expression fate feel fiction George Eliot Greek tragedy Hamlet heroic heroic couplet human Iago iambic iambic pentameter ideas illusion imaginative important incident influence intense interest King literary lives lyric lyrical poetry Matthew Arnold Milton mind modern narrative neo-classic never novel novelist Othello Pater pattern period play plot poem poet poetic poetry popular present Pride and Prejudice prose reader Renaissance rhyme rhythm romance satire scene sense Shakespeare social sometimes song sonnet soul speech spirit stage stanza story structure student style sweet Tale Tartuffe thee theme thou thought tion trimeter unity verse vivid Walter Pater women words writers
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Catalogue of the Lamont Library, Harvard College Harvard University. Library. Lamont Library,Lamont Library No preview available - 1953 |