This was a very curious collection by John Cotgrave, entitled "The English Treasury of Wit and Language, collected out of the most, and best, of our English Dramatick Poems.
In the second act the scene of Iphigenia is also extremely beautiful and interesting; but the other parts of the act have no dramatick merit.
To the Manes of the celebrated Poets and Fellow-writers, Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, upon the Printing of their excellent Dramatick Poems.
On the Works of the most excellent Dramatick Poet, Mr. John F[l]etcher, never before Printed.
With the causes of corruption that make the revisal of Shakespeare's dramatick pieces necessary, may be enumerated the causes of obscurity, which may be partly imputed to his age, and partly to himself.
It is false, that any representation is mistaken for reality; that any dramatick fable in its materiality was ever credible, or, for a single moment, was ever credited.
This original of true comedy will be easily admitted, if we take the word of Horace, who must have known, better than us, the true dates of dramatick works.
A dramatick exhibition is a book recited with concomitants that increase or diminish its effect.
But I am not able to apologize with equal plausibility for the extrusion of Gloster's eyes, which seems an act too horrid to be endured in dramatick exhibition, and such as must always compel the mind to relieve its distress by incredulity.
This is that art which sets the dialogues of Plato above imitation, which we must consider as so many dramatick pieces, which are equally entertaining by the action, and by the dialogue.
In the same year as D'Urfey revised the play, Langbaine published his Account of the English Dramatick Poets, wherein (p.
The Coffee House, a dramatick Piece by James Miller, was performed at the Theater Royal in Drury Lane in 1737.
It was, at least, a happy chance that the first of Milton's verses to appear in print should have been An Epitaph on the Admirable Dramatick Poet, W.
This invocation, says Dacier justly, is not addressed to either of the Pisos, but to the Dramatick Writer generally.
The writers of an early period throw their dramatick materials, serious and ludicrous, into one mass; which the critical chymistry of succeeding times separates and refines.
Dramatick Poetry; the two species of which are as distinct from each other, as any two can be, and yet there are times, when the features of the one will be allowed to resemble those of the other.
But pray, says he, you that are a Critick, is this Play according to your Dramatick Rules, as you call them?
Several of our Countrymen, and Mr. Dryden in particular, seem very often to have copied after it in their Dramatick Writings; and in their Poems upon Love.
I am very sorry to find, by the Opera Bills for this Day, that we are likely to lose the greatest Performer in Dramatick Musick that is now living, or that perhaps ever appeared upon a Stage.
What joy arises in my soul to see my uncle in a dramatick character!
And lastly, without the least favour, I shall discover according to my judgment, from whence they have borrowed, or bordered upon any likeness from any other dramatick piece within my knowledge.
That absurdity of pride could proceed only from ignorance of themselves, by which Garth attempted criticism, and Congreve waved his title to dramatick reputation, and desired to be considered only as a gentleman.
Dryden, in his dedication to the earl of Orrery, had defended dramatick rhyme; and Howard, in the preface to a collection of plays, had censured his opinion.
The last dramatick performance at either university, was the Grateful Fair, written by Christopher Smart, and represented at Pembroke college, Cambridge, about 1747.
His defence and desertion of dramatick rhyme is generally known.
In the two first dialogues Bayes is brought into the company of Crites and Eugenius, with whom he had formerly debated on dramatick poetry.
In this play he made his essay of dramatick rhyme, which he defends in his dedication, with sufficient certainty of a favourable hearing; for Orrery was himself a writer of rhyming tragedies.
Don Sebastian, 1690, is commonly esteemed either the first or second of his dramatick performances.
The basis of Paradise Regained is narrow; a dialogue without action can never please, like an union of the narrative and dramatick powers.
It cannot be observed without wonder, that a mind so vigorous and fertile in dramatick compositions should, on any other occasion, discover nothing but impotence and poverty.
A very witty, drolling, Dramatick Poet, and of the first Rank for Quality, says in a Prologue to his Auditors.
It was the Thespian Monitor and Dramatick Miscellany, by Barnaby Bangbar, Esq.
His judgment of dramatick pieces, so far as concerns their exhibition on the stage, must be allowed to have considerable weight.
As by Langbaine, An Account of the English Dramatick Poets (1691), who acknowledges Cockayne as the only conclusive authority upon the subject.
It was popular when Dryden in his Essay on Dramatick Poesy, 1668, praised its "labyrinth of design.
Demetrius having had the misfortune of miscarrying upon the Stage, endeavours to preserve his unlawful Title to Wit, by bringing all the Dramatick Poets down to his own Level.
The same Rule holds, in some measure, in all Arts and Sciences, particularly in Dramatick Poetry.
A Dramatick Poet has as hard a Task on't to manage, as a passive obedience Divine that preaches before the Commons on the 30th.
Of this Robert Baron, we can recover nothing, save only those Dramatick Pieces which he wrote to the Stage, and which no doubt passed with good applause in those times.
Thomas Midleton was one who by his Industry added very much to the English Stage, being a copious Writer of Dramatick Poetry.
This Robert Chamberlain is also remembred amongst the Dramatick Writers of that time for two Plays which he wrote; the Swaggering Damosel, a Comedy: and Sicelides a Pastoral.
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