We do not forget that Corneille wrote comedies before Molière; and indeed there is no doubt that the younger of the two dramatists owed something, even in comedy, to the older.
Mr. Greenwood writes, "nobody, outside a very small circle, troubled his head as to who the dramatist or dramatists might be.
But Manningham apparently did not "trouble his head as to who the dramatist or dramatists might be.
Jonson is not accusing Shakespeare of pretending to be the author of plays written by somebody else, but of "making EACH MAN'S wit his own," and the MEN are the other dramatists of the day.
The last is generally called the "vice," and is the original of the stage clowns so common among the dramatists of the time of Elizabeth, and who embody so much of the wit of Shakespeare.
Now how are we middle-class novelists and dramatists to continue to live?
Dramatists have, it has been argued, occasionally found it there, but such may have been dramatists with eyes capable of seeing through clothes.
Some of these Bankside dramatists were well born and rich--such as Francis Beaumont, whose father was a Knight and a Justice of the Common Pleas; and John Fletcher, who was a son of the Bishop of London.
We have records of the deaths of two at least of these dramatists on the Bankside--viz.
The dramatists were a much more potent influence than either Spenser or the metaphysical school.
In the interests of pure poetry and melody he tightened its joints, stiffened its texture, and one by one gave up almost all the licenses that the dramatistshad used.
And even in the lesser dramatists the happy embodiment of observation in a telling figure is to be found on every page.
Among the dramatistsand novelists may be mentioned Joaquim Manoel de Macedo, Jose Martiniano de Alencar, Bernardo Guimaraes, A.
The writings of this greatest of dramatists are, as once were those of Homer, a Bible whence we receive those other revelations of man, and of all that concerns man.
It is, however, remarkable that the greater number of our early dramatists who now occupy our attention were also members of the universities, had taken a degree, and some were skilful Greek scholars.
Alluding to the treatment the dramatists were enduring from their masters, Robert Greene indignantly addressed his peers.
By emancipating themselves from the thraldom of Greece and the servility of Rome our dramatists have occasioned later critics to separate our own from the classical drama of antiquity.
These early dramatists describe their characters by their names; an artless mode, which, however, long continued to be the practice of our comic writers, and we may still trace it in modern comedies.
The dramatists themselves, who probably conceived that they had consigned all their property in their vended plays, never read their own proof-sheets.
Aside from Lucilius and the dramatists already mentioned, there are no poets of note in this period.
For the most part, however, the invention of the plot, the delineation of character, and the poetic imagery of his plays were due to the Greek dramatists whose works he presented in Latin form.
At a time when Latin was far more familiar than Greek these tragedies were regarded as the highest expression of ancient dramatic art, and were studied and imitated by the dramatists of the modern nations.
Discrimination between the work of the two dramatistsand their collaborators has been the object of a series of studies for the establishment of metrical and other tests.
Fletcher's collaboration with other dramatists had begun during his connexion with Beaumont, who apparently ceased to write for the stage two or three years before his death.
Sidney's Arcadia, the two dramatists appear to have had a third collaborator in Massinger and perhaps a fourth in Nathaniel Field.
A family intimacy of long standing had existed between her father's household and that of the learned and excellent scholar, so that his well-known taste for the English dramatists had no small influence on Doctor Mitford's studious daughter.
The old dramatists she had grown up to worship,--Shakspeare first, as in all loyalty bound, and after him Fletcher.
Three dramatists combined to produce this genial masterpiece--Chapman, Jonson, and Marston.
The editors of our dramatists have consequently found it an extremely laborious task to restore the sense of corrupt passages, and have sometimes abandoned the attempt in despair.
Alexander Dyce, who so ably edited our elder dramatists and poets, could never have accomplished his projects, if Heber had not come to his assistance with the rare, or even unique, original editions.
When some one asked him to name the greatest of English dramatists he replied, quick as a flash: "The one who writes the last great play.
This it is in which he leaves far behind not the dramatists alone, but all writers of fiction.
It is, if not entirely wanting, very little manifested in comparison with him, by the English dramatists of his own and the subsequent period, whom we are about to approach.
He took up arms against those who shared the public favour, and were placed by half Paris among great dramatists and poets, Pradon, Desmarests, Brebœuf.
And this is one that manydramatists have displayed.
Below Webster we might enumerate a long list of dramatists under the first Stuarts.
He has no relation whatever to the poetry of Augustanism which followed Dryden, and which Dryden received partly from France and partly from certain contemporaries of the great romantic dramatists themselves, headed by Ben Jonson.
His knowledge of Shakespeare and the Elizabethan dramatistswas a link between him and Mr. Swinburne.
The greatest masters of the terrible-grotesque till we get to the German romanticists were the English dramatists of the sixteenth and the early portion of the seventeenth century, and of course by far the greatest among these was Shakespeare.
How fully the Greek dramatists understood that to be instantly appreciated they must deal with stories every detail of which was stored with friendly associations for the audience!
Thus nearly all the plays of the dramatists passed under review are to be studied in book form, but they are spoken of here, as far as possible, in terms of their actual presentation in the theatre.
This was an allusion to the great controversy then just raised by Jeremy Collier in his famous Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the Stage, in which all the dramatists of the day were violently attacked for their indecency.
Without question she did so professionally, though in what way dramatists at the close of the seventeenth century lived by their pens is difficult to conjecture.
By his original interpretation of Aristotle's theory of tragedy, he delivered German dramatistsfrom the yoke of the classic tragedy of France, and directed them to the Greek dramatists and to Shakespeare.
The rest of the Greek dramatists required Aeschylus--Aeschylus required only Homer.
Not only do the earliest of the comic dramatists seem to have sought in mythic fables their characters and plots, but, far before the DRAMA itself arose in any of the Grecian states, comic recital prepared the way for comic representation.
Massinger is very fond of introducing doctors in his plays; so no doubt are the other dramatists of this period.
Massinger resembles other dramatists of his age; at times we feel that they talk like the little boys on the links in Stevenson's Lantern-Bearers.
Much interesting information on the great debt which Fletcher and other dramatists owed to Spanish literature will be found in F.
A similar consideration applies to the Jacobean dramatists when compared with their Elizabethan predecessors.
Coleridge says that it is "an excellent metre, a better model for dramatists in general to imitate than Shakspere's.
Sensible as I am of its defects, I trust it will help to spread the knowledge of Massinger's works, and will invite others to deal on similar lines with the other dramatists of the great age.
Shakspere and Fletcher excepted, Massinger has been adjudged by posterity the most successful of the practical dramatists of the early seventeenth century.
It is the general opinion of scholars that our Elizabethan dramatists owed very little to the Greek drama directly, but we cannot forget that Massinger had had a good education at Oxford, and was a widely read man.
There is no reason why any of our great dramatistsshould be treated with less respect than those of Greece and Rome, of France and Germany.
Who, or how many, of the old English dramatists introduced Irishmen into their dramatis personæ?
Although, in the conduct of the plot, and the delineation of character, Hindú dramatists show considerable skill, yet they do not appear to have been remarkable for much fertility of invention.
Elizabethan dramatists had to round off a scene to a conclusion, for there was no kindly curtain to cover retreat from a deadlock.
It is contrary to history and experience to suppose that in Shakespeare's time dramatists deliberately aimed at illustrating not only the customs but also the morals of a barbaric age.
They may have heard something about old tapestry, rushes, and boards, but they have no reason to infer that our greatest dramatists were "thoroughly handicapped by the methods of representation then in vogue.
So long as the dramatists were not hampered by demands from the audience to have its social, political, or aesthetic fancies humoured, and from the actor to have his egotism flattered, the drama flourished as an art as well as a business.
Many dramatists would add dialogue detached from the story, but Shakespeare gives the necessary information in three words, which flash a picture upon the spectator's mind.
On the other hand, the comic dramatists tried to disparage purity in men and women, and the sparkle of their comedies is unwholesome.
Dramatists are borrowers—their principal source of wealth—artistic thoughts drawn from the epos.
Dramatists are constructive geniuses, they are not inventive and original as the epic poets are.
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