Sophocles, and Euripides, the three Tragic poets unequall'd yet by any, and the best rule to all who endeavour to write Tragedy. The circumscription of time wherein the whole Drama begins and ends, is according to antient rule, and best example, within... Samson Agonistes - Страница 5написао/ла John Milton - 1890Пуни преглед - О овој књизи
| William Bridges Hunter (Jr.) - 1978 - 226 страница
...to them and not to Seneca for "the grand master-piece to observe" (Educ 4:286). He found "Aeschulus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the three Tragic Poets unequall'd yet by any, and the best rule of all who endeavour to write Tragedy." Within the context of English drama such decisive artistic... | |
| John Milton - 1985 - 468 страница
...with versimilitude and decorum; they only will best judge who are not unacquainted with /CschuJus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the three Tragic Poets unequall'd...rule, and best example, within the space of 24 hours.* 8 See also the passages quoted in the Introduction (above, pp. 24 and 44-5) and the statements in Of... | |
| John Milton - 1994 - 630 страница
...who are not unacquainted with Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the three tragic poets unequalled yet by any, and the best rule to all who endeavour to wine tragedy. The circumscription of time wherein the whole drama begins and ends is, according to... | |
| John T. Shawcross - 1995 - 292 страница
...with verisimilitude and decorum; they only will best judge who are not unacquainted with jEschulus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the three Tragic Poets unequall'd...rule, and best example, within the space of 24 hours. 23. Butler on Milton early 1670s (?) Extract from Samuel Butler, 'Fragments of an Intended Second Part... | |
| George Steiner - 1996 - 394 страница
...corruptly to gratifie the people. . . . they only will best judge who are not unacquainted with Aeschulus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the three Tragic Poets unequall'd...the best rule to all who endeavour to write Tragedy. "Unequalled yet by any"—the words were written sixty-three years after the publication of King Lear.... | |
| P. E. Easterling - 1997 - 414 страница
...that commonly call'd the Plot,., they only will judge best who are not unacquainted with Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the three Tragic Poets unequall'd...best rule to all who endeavour to write Tragedy.' 5 See Bolgar (1954) 494-504 for manuscripts of the Greek tragedians in Italy in the fifteenth century.... | |
| Peter E. Medine, Joseph Anthony Wittreich - 1997 - 356 страница
...That Sort of Dramatic Poem Which is Call'd Tragedy," those Greek tragedians are joined by Aeschylus as "the three Tragic Poets unequall'd yet by any, and the best rule to all who endeavor to write Tragedy." Dramatists also commended in the preface to Samson are the "Italians" for... | |
| 302 страница
...on verisimilitude and decorum. "They only will best judge who are not unacquainted with Aeschulus, Sophocles and Euripides, the three Tragic Poets unequall'd...best rule to all who endeavour to write Tragedy." Finally, he endorses the unity of time; everything should be accomplished within twenty-four hours,... | |
| Derek N. C. Wood - 2001 - 286 страница
...be judged against those of ‘Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the three tragic poets unequalled yet by any, and the best rule to all who endeavour to write tragedy' (introduction to SA 52—4). Can we miss the resonance of that ‘yet'? This was the company of poets... | |
| Stephen Prickett - 2002 - 294 страница
...who are not unacquainted with Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the three tragic poets unequalled yet by any, and the best rule to all who endeavour to write tragedy.' 5 All human learning: literature, art, science and religion could be seen as being in perfect harmony.... | |
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