The Dramatic UnitiesTrübner & Company, 1878 - 15 páginas |
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The Dramatic Unities Barrister New Square Chambers Edwin Simpson,Edwin Simpson Pré-visualização indisponível - 2012 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
Agamemnon allowed Aristotle barbarous Brutus c'est Cato century change of scene characters comedy commencement Corneille Corneille's Dichter Dr Johnson dramatic unities dramatists Einheit der Zeit endeavoured England English Eschylus Eumenides Euripides fact fait favour Foscari France French Gian Giorgio Trissino Göthe Greek dramatists Handlung heroine imagination imitation improbable instance Italian Italy Jules Janin l'unité de lieu literature Lord Byron means ment n'est observe the unity opinion Orestes palace pass passage peut piece play poet Poeticon poetry present day produced qu'il qu'on Racine regards rule says scarcely scène Schlegel second act Semiramis Shakespeare Siege of Damascus Sophocles Sophonisba space of twenty-four spectator stage story Stunden supposed takes place théâtre three unities tion tout town tragedy trilogy Trissino Troisième Discours Troy twenty-four hours unity of action unity of place vestibule Victor Hugo Voltaire Voltaire's whole writers written in accordance Zaire εἶναι καὶ
Passagens conhecidas
Página 54 - The objection arising from the impossibility of passing the first hour at Alexandria, and the next at Rome, supposes that when the play opens, the spectator really imagines himself at Alexandria, and believes that his walk to the theatre has been a voyage to Egypt, and that he lives in the days of Anthony and Cleopatra. Surely he that imagines this may imagine more.
Página 74 - Neglect the rules each verbal critic lays ; For not to know some trifles, is a praise. Most critics, fond of some subservient art, Still make the whole depend upon a part : They talk of principles, but notions prize ; And all to one loved folly sacrifice.
Página 73 - The result of my inquiries, in 'which it would be ludicrous to boast of impartiality, is, that the unities of time and place are not essential to a just drama, that though they may sometimes conduce to pleasure, they are always to be sacrificed to the nobler beauties of variety and instruction ; and that a play written with nice observation of critical rules, is to be contemplated as an elaborate curiosity, as the product of superfluous and ostentatious art, by which is shown, rather what is possible,...
Página 9 - A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle, and an end. A beginning is that which does not itself follow anything by causal necessity, but after which something naturally is or comes to be. An end, on the contrary, is that which itself naturally follows some other thing, either by necessity, or as a rule, but has nothing following it. A...
Página 32 - Time is of all modes of existence most obsequious to the imagination; a lapse of years is as easily conceived as a passage of hours. In contemplation we easily contract the time of real actions and therefore willingly permit it to be contracted when we only see their imitation.
Página 55 - Granicus, he is in a state of elevation above the reach of reason or of truth, and from the heights of empyrean poetry may despise the circumscriptions of terrestrial nature.
Página 55 - A play read affects the mind like a play acted. It is therefore evident, that the action is not supposed to be real; and it follows, that between the acts a longer or shorter time may be allowed to pass, and that no more account of space or duration is to be taken by the auditor of a drama, than by the reader of a narrative before whom may pass in an hour the life of a hero, or the revolutions of an empire.
Página 96 - Ainsi, par une fiction de théâtre, on peut s'imaginer que don Diègue et le comte, sortant du palais du roi, avancent toujours en se querellant, et sont arrivés devant la maison de ce premier lorsqu'il reçoit le soufflet qui l'oblige à y entrer pour y chercher du secours.
Página 94 - Je tiens donc qu'il faut chercher cette unité exacte autant qu'il est possible ; mais, comme elle ne s'accommode pas avec toute sorte de sujets, j'accorderais très volontiers que ce qu'on ferait passer en une seule ville aurait l'unité de lieu.
Página 55 - Rome, supposes, that when the play opens, the spectator really imagines himself at Alexandria, and believes that his walk to the theatre has been a voyage to Egypt, and that he lives in the days of Antony and Cleopatra. Surely he that imagines this may imagine more. He that can take the stage at one time for the palace of the Ptolemies, may take it in half an hour for the promontory of Actium. Delusion, if delusion can be admitted, has no certain limitation...