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Lectures on Dramatic Literature, Or, The Employment of the Passions in Drama: First Series

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Marc Girardin, dit Girardin (pseud. van Marc Girardin)

D. Appleton, 1849 - 245 pages

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Of the Nature of Dramatic Emotion	13

How the Ancient Theatre expressed the Emotions which	20

Of Mans Struggles with Physical PainThe Philoctetes	32

The manner in which the Ancients and the Moderns repre	41

Suicide and the Hatred of LifeDido in VirgilEdipus	55

Of the Sentiments which accompany the idea of Suicide in	66

Suicide in the Werter of Goëthe and in the Chatterton of	81

Of Paternal LoveThe Old Horace Don Diego and	95

Of Paternal ClemencyThe Heautontimorumenos of Terence	143

The Paternal Character in ComedyThe Father of a Family	153

Of Fathers in Comedy and especially in the Comedies	168

Of Maternal LoveAndromache in Homer in Euripides	176

Of Maternal LoveMerope in Torelli Maffei Voltaire	191

Of Maternal LoveLucrece Borgia	201

Of Maternal LoveThe Orphan of China	214

Of the Perversion of Maternal LoveCleopatra in the	226

Paternal Selfishness in the Paria of Delavigne and in the piece	111

Of the Ingratitude of ChildrenThe Edipus Colonæus of	125

Literature often expresses the state of the Imagination of	235

NOTES	243

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Title	Lectures on Dramatic Literature, Or, The Employment of the Passions in Drama: First Series
Author	Marc Girardin, dit Girardin (pseud. van Marc Girardin)
Translated by	Robert Gibbes Barnwell
Publisher	D. Appleton, 1849
Original from	National Library of the Netherlands
Digitized	18 Oct 2012
Length	245 pages

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