 | Raymond Macdonald Alden - English language - 1909 - 402 pages
...the misunderstanding of Aristotle's dictum (which was simply to the effect that " tragedy endeavors, as far as possible, to confine itself to a single revolution of the sun," in contrast to the limitless time of epic action), and chiefly to the exaggerated authority of classical... | |
 | Eleanor Frances Jourdain - French drama - 1912 - 218 pages
...their royal appartements as the Greeks did.7 1 Aristotle's statement that ' tragedy endeavours, so far as possible, to confine itself to a single revolution of the sun, or but slightly to exceed this limit ', was read as a law instead of as a reference to fact by Giraldi Cinthio in his Discourse on Comedy... | |
 | Classical philology - 1912 - 400 pages
...enjoins it as an invariable rule. His exact language is: "They differ, again, in their length: for Tragedy endeavours, as far as possible, to confine itself to a single revolution (Tre/u'oSo?) of the sun, or but slightly to exceed this limit; whereas the Epic action has no limits... | |
 | Archibald Henderson - Drama - 1914 - 350 pages
...distinctive attribute of the dramatic species. His words are eloquent on this point : " Tragedy endeavors, so far as possible, to confine itself to a single revolution...of the sun, or but slightly to exceed this limit." Authority, in the person of the Italian critics of the Renascence, Cynthio, Robortelli, and Trissino,... | |
 | Arthur Woollgar Verrall - 1914 - 322 pages
...Limitation of the total supposed time he /notes as a fact of practice: 'Tragedy endeavours, as~fer as possible, to confine itself to a single revolution of the sun, or but slightly to exceed this limit1 ' (Poet, v 4). It is to be observed that Aristotle does not give any opinion upon the practice,... | |
 | Classical literature - 1915 - 248 pages
...Epic poetry admits but one kind of metre and is narrative in form. They differ, again, in length: for Tragedy endeavours, as far as possible, to confine...of the sun, or but slightly to exceed this limit; whereas the Epic action has no limits of time. ... Of their constituent parts some are common to both,... | |
 | Francis Meehan - Historical drama, English - 1915 - 132 pages
...seventeenth centuries. One of Aristotle's apparently casual statements of fact—that tragedy endeavors as far as possible to confine itself to a single revolution of the sun (Poetics, chap, v)— was elaborated into a rule by certain Italian critics. Giraldi Cinthio (1504-1573)... | |
 | Henry Fielding - 1915 - 322 pages
...Poetics, VIII, he explains what he means by Unity of Action, and in V, he says: "... Tragedy endeavors, as far as possible, to confine itself to a single revolution of the sun ..." (Butcher's translation). Early in the sixteenth century translators of Aristotle expanded this... | |
 | American fiction - 1917 - 542 pages
...still in mind, he added, not as a definite rule but as a commentary on Greek art, "Tragedy endeavors so far as possible to confine itself to a single revolution of the sun, or but slightly to exceed that limit" At the hands of the French and Italians, with their eternal emphasis upon form and literary... | |
 | George Howe, Gustave Adolphus Harrer - English literature - 1924 - 672 pages
...poetry admits but one kind of metre, and is narrative in form. They differ, again, in their length: for Tragedy endeavours, as far as possible, to confine...of the sun, or but slightly to exceed this limit; whereas the Epic action has no limits of time. This, then, is a second point of difference ; though... | |
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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. 
