The Plays of William Shakspeare, Volume 1Printed and fold by J.J. Tourneisen, 1900 |
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Page 54
... tragedy . The Merry Wives of Windfor , The Comedy of Errors , and The Taming of a Shrew , are all pure comedy ; the reft , however they are called , have fomething of both kinds . It is not very easy to determine which way of writing he ...
... tragedy . The Merry Wives of Windfor , The Comedy of Errors , and The Taming of a Shrew , are all pure comedy ; the reft , however they are called , have fomething of both kinds . It is not very easy to determine which way of writing he ...
Page 59
... tragedies of Mr. Shakspeare . If one undertook to examine the greatcft part of these by thofe rules which are established by Aristotle , and taken from the model of the Grecian stage , it would be no very hard tafk to find a great many ...
... tragedies of Mr. Shakspeare . If one undertook to examine the greatcft part of these by thofe rules which are established by Aristotle , and taken from the model of the Grecian stage , it would be no very hard tafk to find a great many ...
Page 63
... tragedy fomething very moving in the grief of Electra ; but , as Mr. Dacier has obferved , there is fomething very un- natural and shocking in the manners he has given that Princefs and Oreftes in the latter part . Oreftes 3 are both ...
... tragedy fomething very moving in the grief of Electra ; but , as Mr. Dacier has obferved , there is fomething very un- natural and shocking in the manners he has given that Princefs and Oreftes in the latter part . Oreftes 3 are both ...
Page 64
... rightly between horror , and The latter is a proper paffion of tragedy , but the former ought always to be carefully avoid- terror . ed . And certainly no dramatick writer ever fuc ceeded 64 SOME ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE , & c .
... rightly between horror , and The latter is a proper paffion of tragedy , but the former ought always to be carefully avoid- terror . ed . And certainly no dramatick writer ever fuc ceeded 64 SOME ACCOUNT OF THE LIFE , & c .
Page 65
... tragedy of Macbeth , but more especially the fcene where the King is murdered , in the fecond act , as well as this play , is a noble proof of that manly fpirit with which he writ ; and both fhew how powerful he was , in giving the ...
... tragedy of Macbeth , but more especially the fcene where the King is murdered , in the fecond act , as well as this play , is a noble proof of that manly fpirit with which he writ ; and both fhew how powerful he was , in giving the ...
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