English Critical Texts: 16th Century to 20th CenturyDennis Joseph Enright, Ernst De Chickera Oxford University Press, 1962 - 398 pages |
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Page 74
... plot has that uniformity and unity of 935 design in it , which I have commended in the French ; and that is Rollo , or rather , under the name of Rollo , the story of Bas- sianus and Geta in Herodian : there indeed the plot is neither ...
... plot has that uniformity and unity of 935 design in it , which I have commended in the French ; and that is Rollo , or rather , under the name of Rollo , the story of Bas- sianus and Geta in Herodian : there indeed the plot is neither ...
Page 81
... plots ; they are too much alike to please 1200 often ; which we need not the experience of our own stage to justify . As for their new way of mingling mirth with serious plot , I do not , with Lisideius , condemn the thing , though I ...
... plots ; they are too much alike to please 1200 often ; which we need not the experience of our own stage to justify . As for their new way of mingling mirth with serious plot , I do not , with Lisideius , condemn the thing , though I ...
Page 388
... plot does not have unity , as some people think , simply because it deals with a single hero . Many and indeed innumerable things happen to an individual , some of which do not go to make up any unity , and similarly an individual is ...
... plot does not have unity , as some people think , simply because it deals with a single hero . Many and indeed innumerable things happen to an individual , some of which do not go to make up any unity , and similarly an individual is ...
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An Essay of Dramatic Poesy | 50 |
An Essay on Criticism III | 111 |
Preface to Shakespeare | 131 |
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