Lectures on Dramatic Literature: Or, The Employment of the Passions in DramaD. Appleton, 1849 - 245 pages |
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... anger , and those passions which are simple . The mo- dern drama , on the contrary , seeks for exceptions and bizar- reries of character with as much care as the ancient drama avoided them . In the Cid and Zaire , for example , love is ...
... anger , and those passions which are simple . The mo- dern drama , on the contrary , seeks for exceptions and bizar- reries of character with as much care as the ancient drama avoided them . In the Cid and Zaire , for example , love is ...
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... anger , or grief which drives her to this excess ? The passions vary and differ from each other only when they are moderate : to each of them belongs a peculiar language and gesture ; then they become interesting on account of their ...
... anger , or grief which drives her to this excess ? The passions vary and differ from each other only when they are moderate : to each of them belongs a peculiar language and gesture ; then they become interesting on account of their ...
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... ! With this aversion for the ugly , they never represented the excess of passion : Extreme pain and extreme anger produce contortion , and contortion disfigures . Timanthes , in his picture of the Sacrifice of Iphigenia , veiled the.
... ! With this aversion for the ugly , they never represented the excess of passion : Extreme pain and extreme anger produce contortion , and contortion disfigures . Timanthes , in his picture of the Sacrifice of Iphigenia , veiled the.
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... anger , hatred , regret , affection , all the sentiments in short which fill the human heart . Physical pain does not constitute the dramatic interest of Philoctetes ; on the contrary , the ascendant which his moral nature has over his ...
... anger , hatred , regret , affection , all the sentiments in short which fill the human heart . Physical pain does not constitute the dramatic interest of Philoctetes ; on the contrary , the ascendant which his moral nature has over his ...
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... anger and the hatred of the hero , who refuses to hear the advice of Ulysses ; the entreaties of Neoptolemus , who yields only to the divine orders of Hercules . This is the whole subject of the tragedy of Sophocles , of which the ...
... anger and the hatred of the hero , who refuses to hear the advice of Ulysses ; the entreaties of Neoptolemus , who yields only to the divine orders of Hercules . This is the whole subject of the tragedy of Sophocles , of which the ...
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